Cuba Gooding Jr.

Land: United States

Geschlecht: M

Geburtstag: 1968-01-02

Biografie
Cuba Gooding 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 break-dancer performing with singer Lionel Richie at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. After high school, Gooding studied Japanese martial arts for three years, before turning his focus toward acting. Early on, he landed guest starring roles on shows like Hill Street Blues (1981) and MacGyver (1985). His first major role was in the John Singleton's box office surprise and critical hit Boyz n the Hood (1991). He followed this success with roles in major films like A Few Good Men (1992), Lightning Jack (1994), Outbreak (1995), Men of Honor (2000), Rat Race (2001), and The Fighting Temptations (2003) in which he co-starred alongside Beyoncé Knowles. In 1996, he was cast as an arrogant football player on the brink of a career-ending injury in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire (1996). The film was a success and earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. His "Show Me The Money" line in the film became a nationwide catchphrase. In 1997, he had a notable supporting role in As Good As It Gets (1997). The next several years, his films were inconsistently successful; Boat Trip (2002), Norbit (2007), and Daddy Day Camp (2007), all of which had received extremely negative reviews and performed poorly at the box office. Gooding also starred in a film titled A Murder of Crows, which he co-produced with his long time friend and business partner Derek Broes. The film was Gooding's first attempt at producing. Since then, he has had series of starring roles in grittier films released direct-to-DVD such as the revenge dramas Hero Wanted and Wrong Turn at Tahoe, as well as the sci-fi action pic Hardwired and the action comedy Lies & Illusions. A well-received performance as Ben Carson in Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009) and a small supporting role in Ridley Scott's American Gangster (2007) both proved to be exceptions to this trend. An appearance in the World War II film, Red Tails, produced by George Lucas and with other prominent actors such as Terrence Howard, will mark his only return to the big screen since American Gangster. Gooding is married to Sara Kapfer; they have two sons, Spencer and Mason.

Schauspieler:

  1. 1. MacGyver (1985), serien
    ...
    Billy Colton
  2. ...
    Boy Getting Haircut
  3. ...
    Tre Styles
  4. ...
    Abraham Lincoln Haines
  5. ...
    Cpl. Carl Hammaker
  6. ...
    Tyree
  7. ...
    Mike Peterson
  8. ...
    Torch
  9. ...
    Ben Doyle
  10. ...
    Major Salt
  11. ...
    Billy Roberts
  12. ...
    Eddie Hughes
  13. ...
    Rod Tidwell
  14. ...
    Frank Sachs
  15. ...
    Albert
  16. ...
    Lawson Russell
  17. 17. Instinkt (1999), film
    ...
    Theo Caulder
  18. ...
    Arlo
  19. ...
    Chief Carl Brashear
  20. 20. Zoolander (2001), film
    ...
    Cuba Gooding Jr.
  21. ...
    Owen Templeton
  22. ...
    Doris 'Dorie' Miller
  23. ...
    Draven
  24. ...
    Ted Brooks
  25. 25. Boat Trip (2002), film
    ...
    Jerry Robinson
  26. ...
    Darrin Hill
  27. ...
    Radio
  28. ...
    Self (archive footage)
  29. ...
    Mikey
  30. 30. Dirty (2005), film
    ...
    Salim Adel
  31. ...
    Alex Thomas
  32. ...
    Nicky Barnes
  33. ...
    Charlie Hinton
  34. ...
    Deion Hughes
  35. ...
    Tom
  36. ...
    Liam Case
  37. 37. Linewatch (2008), film
    ...
    Michael Dixon
  38. 38. Harold (2008), film
    ...
    Cromer
  39. ...
    Mack
  40. ...
    Joshua
  41. ...
    David Wolf
  42. ...
    Ben Carson
  43. 43. Hardwired (2009), film
    ...
    Luke Gibson
  44. ...
    Isaac Kahn
  45. ...
    John Hebron
  46. ...
    Lewis Hicks
  47. ...
    Jonas Arbor
  48. 48. Red Tails (2012), film
    ...
    Major Emanuelle Stance
  49. ...
    Ray Carver
  50. 50. Oprah Prime (2012), serien
    ...
    Self
  51. 51. Firelight (2012), film
    ...
    DJ
  52. ...
    El Camaleón 2
  53. ...
    Carter Wilson
  54. 54. Summoned (2013), film
    ...
    Detective Callendar
  55. ...
    FBI Agent John Nelson
  56. 57. Freedom (2014), film
    ...
    Samuel
  57. 58. Forever (2014), serien
    ...
    Isaac Monroe
  58. ...
    Cuba Gooding Jr.
  59. ...
    Sam Fraunces
  60. ...
    O.J. Simpson
  61. ...
    Rodney Jones
  62. ...
    Self
  63. ...
    Self - Actor
  64. ...
    Xavier
  65. ...
    Blue

Regie:

Drehbuch:

Produzent:

  1. 2. Harold (2008), film
  2. 3. Freedom (2014), film
    ...
    executive producer

Stimme:

  1. ...
    Buck
  2. ...
    Loofah

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