Personal Info
Cuba Mark Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Acting
Biography
Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Emmy nomination.
He was born in Bronx, New York to Shirley, a singer with the Sweethearts, and Cuba Gooding, Sr., a lead vocalist of soul group The Main Ingredient. He has two brothers, musician Tommy Gooding and fellow actor Omar Gooding, and sister, April Gooding. His family moved to Los Angeles after Gooding Sr.'s music group had a hit single with "Everybody Plays the Fool" in 1972 but abandoned his family two years later. Gooding Jr. was raised by…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Quantum Supremacy
as Captain Marcus Monroe
A Line of Fire
as Javier Cardona
Dog Patrol: Operation Santa Paws
as Sheriff Jacobs
Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace
as Balthazar
The Firing Squad
as Samuel Wilson
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
as Self (archive footage)
Skeletons in the Closet
as Andres
The Weapon
as Blue
Life in a Year
as Xavier
For NYC
TV Shows
American Crime Story
as O. J. Simpson · 10 ep.
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
as Self · 1 ep.
Empire
as Puma · 1 ep.
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self · 1 ep.
The Book of Negroes
as Sam Fraunces · 6 ep.
Big Time in Hollywood, Fl
as Cuba Gooding Jr. · 10 ep.
The Last Leg
as Self · 1 ep.
American Horror Story
as Dominic Banks · 10 ep.
Conan
as Self · 1 ep.
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest · 3 ep.
