Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr. has appeared in 56 movies on CringeMDb. 23 contain sex scenes, nudity or sexual violence, and 33 do not.
- Most recent parent-safe movie: A Line of Fire (2025)
- Most recent with adult content: Machete Kills (2013)
Born January 2, 1968 · Known for acting
41.1% Featured Movie Cringe Score (56 movies)
Cuba Gooding Jr. Movie Credits
Certified Parent-Safe
Judgment Night
...as Mike Peterson
A Few Good Men
...as Cpl. Carl Hammaker
Boyz n the Hood
...as Tré Styles
Chill Factor
...as Arlo
The Weapon
...as Blue
Hardwired
...as Luke Gibson
Outbreak
...as Major Salt
The Tuskegee Airmen
...as Billy Roberts
Lies & Illusions
...as Isaac
Men of Honor
...as Senior Chief Carl Brashear
Snow Dogs
...as Ted Brooks
Instinct
...as Dr. Theo Caulder
What Dreams May Come
...as Albert Lewis
End Game
...as Agent Alex Thomas
Losing Isaiah
...as Eddie Hughes
Home on the Range
...as Buck (voice)
Radio
...as Radio
Linewatch
...as Michael Dixon
The Way of War
...as David Wolfe
Gladiator
...as Abraham Lincoln Haines
Ticking Clock
...as Lewis Hicks
Red Tails
...as Major Emanuelle Stance
Sacrifice
...as John Hebron
The Hit List
...as Jonas Arbor
Life of a King
...as Eugene Brown
Absolute Deception
...as John Nelson
The Firing Squad
...as Samuel Wilson
Freedom
...as Samuel
In the Shadows
...as Draven
Selma
...as Fred Gray
Welcome to Hollywood
...as Cuba Gooding Jr.
Blown Away
...as Bomb Squad Class Member
A Line of Fire
...as Javier Cardona
Certified Cringeworthy
Dirty
...as Salim Adel
As Good as It Gets
...as Frank Sachs
American Gangster
...as Nicky Barnes
The Fighting Temptations
...as Darrin Hill
Lightning Jack
...as Ben Doyle
Wrong Turn at Tahoe
...as Joshua
Norbit
...as Deion Hughes
Boat Trip
...as Jerry Robinson
What Love Is
...as Tom
Jerry Maguire
...as Rod Tidwell
Zoolander
...as Cuba Gooding Jr.
Shadowboxer
...as Mikey
Harold
...as Cromer
Trading Favors
...as Liquor Store Clerk
Hero Wanted
...as Liam Case
The Devil's Tomb
...as Mack
A Murder of Crows
...as Lawson Russell
Machete Kills
...as El Camaleón 2
One in the Chamber
...as Ray Carver
The Butler
...as Carter Wilson
Summoned
...as Detective Callendar
Don Jon
...as Hollywood Actor #2
Rat Race
...as Owen Templeton
About Cuba Gooding Jr.
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, 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.
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