Cuba Gooding Jr.
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PERSONAL DATA OF CUBA GOODING JR.
Age: 53 years old
Born in: New York, USA
Born on: 02/01/1968
BIOGRAPHY OF CUBA GOODING JR.
Actor. He is the only black performer of his generation to have won an Oscar after the one won by Denzel Washington in 1989. What won him the prestigious statuette was the flawless performance of an exuberant football player in “Jerry Maguire” ( 1996) by Cameron Crowe. Debutant in a short part in “The Prince Seeks a Wife” (1988) by John Landis, he owes his first leading role to John Singleton who wanted him among the interpreters of the controversial “Boyz’n the Hood” (1991). the only one of a trio of young inhabitants of a Los Angeles ghetto neighborhood to come out of the spiral of violence that will eventually overwhelm his friends. A year later he is on the set of Rob Reiner’s “Code of Honor”, with Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise and with both of them returns to work, respectively, in the award-winning “Something has changed” (1997, by James L. Brooks) and in “Jerry Maguire”. He was therefore a travel companion, from Heaven to Hell, by Robin Williams in “Beyond Dreams” (1998) by Vincent Ward, while in “Analysis of a Crime” (1999) by Rowdy Herrington, he ends with the ‘being accused of a series of murders not committed because they are narrated in a book he himself published. In the same year, director Jon Turteltaub entrusts him with the defense of Anthony Hopkins in “Instinct”, then the meeting with Robert De Niro in “Men of Honor” (2000, by George Tillman Jr.), in which he plays a naval officer US military. And with the same role he returned to Italian screens in Michael Bay’s colossal war “Pearl Harbor” (2001). From his wife Sara (married in 1994) he had two children.
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THE MOST RECENT FILMS OF CUBA GOODING JR.
Life in a Year
Role: Actor
Year: 2020
Selma – The Road to Freedom (Selma)
Role: Actor
Year: 2014
Absolute Deception
Role: Actor
Year: 2013
Secrets don’t rest in peace (Summoned)
Role: Actor
Year: 2013 Go to the complete Filmography
THE LATEST TV SERIES FROM CUBA GOODING JR.
American Crime Story
Role: Actor
Year: 2016
American Horror Story
Role: Actor
Year: 2011 Go to all TV series
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF CUBA GOODING JR.
Drama: 25% Thriller: 19% Comedy: 16% Action: 15%
THE STATISTICS OF CUBA GOODING JR. ON COMINGSOON.IT
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RECENT ROLES PERFORMED BY CUBA GOODING JR.
| Movie | Role |
|---|---|
Life in a Year | Xavier |
Selma – The Road to Freedom | Fred Gray |
Absolute Deception | Agent John Nelson |
Secrets don’t rest in peace | Detective Callendar |
Machete Kills | El Camaleón 2 |
The Butler – A butler in the White House | Carter Wilson |
One in the Chamber | Ray Carver |
Sacrifice | John Hebron |
The Hit List | Jonas Arbor |
Devil’s Tomb – Hunting for the devil … |
