Cuba Gooding Jr.

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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 his mother and attended four different high schools: North Hollywood High School, Tustin High School, Apple Valley High School, and John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills in Los Angeles. He served as class president in three of them. His first job as a professional entertainer was as a...

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American Horror StorySeries • 2011Sesame StreetSeries • 1969MacGyverSeries • 1985Hill Street BluesSeries • 1981EmpireSeries • 2015American Crime StorySeries • 2016American GangsterMovie • 2007227Series • 1985Coming to AmericaMovie • 1988Home on the RangeMovie • 2004Pearl HarborMovie • 2001A Few Good MenMovie • 1992Jerry MaguireMovie • 1996NorbitMovie • 2007The ButlerMovie • 2013As Good as It GetsMovie • 1997OutbreakMovie • 1995What Dreams May ComeMovie • 1998Life in a YearMovie • 2020Men of HonorMovie • 2000Boyz n the HoodMovie • 1991Don JonMovie • 2013A Line of FireMovie • 2025Quantum SupremacyMovie • 2026