Cuba Gooding Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Cuba Gooding Jr.

American actor

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1968

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: comedian, stage actor, film producer, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Cuba Mark Gooding Jr.
(born January 2, 1968) is an American actor, writer, producer, and director.
After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991), he appeared 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, and What Dreams May Come (1998).
He gained later attention 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 notable films include As Good as It Gets (1997), the ensemble farce Rat Race (2001), Radio (2003 film) , American Gangster (2007), Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013), and Selma (2014), playing civil rights attorney Fred Gray.
In 2016, he portrayed O.J.
Simpson in the FX drama series The People v.
O.
J.
Simpson: American Crime Story, and co-starred in the sixth season of the FX anthology series American Horror Story, subtitled Roanoke.