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  1. Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991) he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor playing a football star in Jerry Maguire (1996). His other notable films include Outbreak (1995), As Good as It Gets (1997), What Dreams May Come (1998), Men of ...

  2. Mini Bio. Cuba Gooding Jr. was born on January 2, 1968, in The Bronx, New York. His mother, Shirley (Sullivan), was a backup singer for The Sweethearts. His father, Cuba Gooding, was the lead vocalist for the R&B group The Main Ingredient, which had a hit with the song "Everybody Plays The Fool". His paternal grandfather was from Barbados.

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  3. Jun 20, 2024 · Cuba Gooding, Jr. (born January 2, 1968, Bronx, New York, U.S.) is an American actor who was perhaps best known for his scene-stealing performance as a professional football player who is the only loyal client of a sports agent played by Tom Cruise in the blockbuster film Jerry Maguire (1996). Gooding earned an Academy Award for best supporting ...

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  4. Cuba Gooding Jr. was born on 2 January 1968, in the Bronx, New York City, United States. His father Cuba Gooding Sr. was a lead vocalist of a soul musical band named ‘The Main Ingredient.’ His mother Shirley was a singer who worked with ‘The Sweethearts.’ Including Gooding Jr., they had four children.

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  5. 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 ...

  6. May 21, 2018 · Cuba Gooding Jr. 1968— Actor. When Cuba Gooding, Jr., delivered his nearly evangelical Academy Award acceptance speech for his performance in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, audiences cheered for the young actor's unexpected catapult to stardom. However, like most overnight successes, Gooding's was the result of several years of wallowing in the ...

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  8. Cuba Gooding Jr. was born on January 2, 1968, in The Bronx, New York. His mother, Shirley (Sullivan), was a backup singer for The Sweethearts. His father, Cuba Gooding, was the lead vocalist for the R&B group The Main Ingredient, which had a hit with the song "Everybody Plays The Fool".

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