Cuba Gooding Jr.
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.
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| Born | Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. January 2, 1968 New York City, U.S. |
| Education | Apple Valley High School |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Spouse |
Sara Kapfer
(m. 1994; div. 2017) |
| Children | 3, including Mason Gooding |
| Parent(s) | Cuba Gooding Sr. Shirley Sullivan |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991), he appeared in The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), Outbreak (1995), and Jerry Maguire (1996), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He gained later fame for his roles in Men of Honor (2000) as Carl Brashear, and in Michael Bay's World War II epic Pearl Harbor (2001) as Doris Miller. His other films include As Good as It Gets (1997), What Dreams May Come (1998), Rat Race (2001), The Fighting Temptations (2003), Radio (2003), American Gangster (2007), Gifted Hands (2009) as Ben Carson, Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013), and Selma (2014) as civil rights attorney Fred Gray. He also provided the voice of Buck the Horse in the animated feature film Home on the Range (2004).
In 2016, he portrayed O. J. Simpson in the FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, receiving a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, and co-starred in the sixth season of the FX anthology series American Horror Story, subtitled Roanoke.