Cuba Gooding Jr

Cuba Gooding Jr

Actor

The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Cuba M. Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He gained his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991); he would go on to appear in A Few Good Men (1992), The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), Outbreak (1995) and Jerry Maguire (1996), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He gained later attention for his role in Michael Bay's WWII epic Pearl Harbor (2001) as Doris Miller. His other notable films include As Good as It Gets (1997), American Gangster (2007), Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013), and Selma (2014), playing civil rights attorney Fred Gray. In 2016, for his portrayal of O.J. Simpson in the FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Gooding earned his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Gooding co-starred in the sixth season of the FX anthology series American Horror Story, subtitled Roanoke.
Cuba M. Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He gained his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991); he would go on to appear in A Few Good Men (1992), The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), Outbreak (1995) and Jerry Maguire (1996), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He gained later attention for his role in Michael Bay's WWII epic Pearl Harbor (2001) as Doris Miller. His other notable films include As Good as It Gets (1997), American Gangster (2007), Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013), and Selma (2014), playing civil rights attorney Fred Gray. In 2016, for his portrayal of O.J. Simpson in the FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Gooding earned his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Gooding co-starred in the sixth season of the FX anthology series American Horror Story, subtitled Roanoke.