Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. His accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. Gooding's breakthrough was in the film Boyz n the Hood (1991). He went on to appear in the films A Few Good Men (1992), Judgment Night (1993), Lightning Jack (1994), and Jerry Maguire (1996). For playing a football star in the latter, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He went on to star in the films As Good as It Gets (1997), Men of Honor (2000), Pearl Harbor (2001), Snow Dogs (2002), Radio (2003), Norbit (2007), Linewatch (2008), Gifted Hands (2009), in which he played Dr. Ben Carson. Alongside these projects, he also had voice-over roles in the animated films Home on the Range (2004) and The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007). After appearing in Red Tails (2012), and The Butler (2013), Gooding collaborated with Ryan Murphy in the FX anthologies The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story and American Horror Story: Roanoke (both 2016). For his portrayal of O. J. Simpson in the former, he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. On stage, Gooding made his Broadway debut playing Ludie Watts in the 2013 revival of the Horton Foote play The Trip to Bountiful. In 2018, he played Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago in both the West End and on Broadway.

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