Biography
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 "E...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Dog Patrol
2025
as Sheriff Jacobs
Samuel and his friends along with his trusted dog Athena have to go for the adventure of a lifetime, matching wits with a mob boss to solve Oscar's ri...

A Line of Fire
2025
After working as a secret agent in the FBI for ten years, Jack 'Cash' Conry left it all behind after his wife passed in order to dedicate himself to h...

Quantum Supremacy
2024
In the not-so-distant future, a fearless crew aboard a starship patrols the galaxy for threats. But when they stumble upon a planet overtaken by rogue...

The Firing Squad
2024
as Samuel Wilson
Based on the true story of three Christian prisoners who face execution in a third world country and how their joy in Christ results in a stunning con...

Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace
2024
as Balthazar
When an Iraq War veteran receives a calling from a higher power, he embarks on a mission to stop a fallen angel from raising an army of the dead to ta...

TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
2024
as Self (archive footage)
A series of lawsuits and allegations have legendary rap mogul P. Diddy on the ropes. TMZ has the troubling inside story from people who were there.

Skeletons in the Closet
2024
as Andres
Haunted by a malevolent spirit since childhood, a desperate mother allows herself to become possessed in order to save the life of her terminally ill ...

The Weapon
2023
as Blue
Dallas is a one-man killing machine on a mysterious rampage. His attacks on biker gangs and meth labs anger the Vegas mob boss who’s holding Dallas’ g...

Life in a Year
2020
as Xavier
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

For NYC
2020
Noel Ashman and Damon Dash direct a collection of favorite quotes from high profile artists, recorded on their smart phones, in their homes during qua...

Bayou Caviar
2018
as Rodney Jones
Rodney is a former boxing champ who, after a deathbed visit to his trainer and mentor, is propelled into reclaiming victory for his now simple life as...

Bayou Caviar
2018
Writer, Director
Rodney is a former boxing champ who, after a deathbed visit to his trainer and mentor, is propelled into reclaiming victory for his now simple life as...

Selma
2014
as Fred Gray
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous stateme...

Freedom
2014
as Samuel
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward and his family, escape from the Monroe Plantat...

Machete Kills
2013
as El Camaleon
Ex-Federale agent Machete is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take...

Don Jon
2013
as Hollywood Actor #2
A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and in...

The Butler
2013
as Carter Wilson
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as...

Life of a King
2013
as Eugene Brown
The true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen ...

Absolute Deception
2013
as John Nelson
A widowed reporter recruits the help of a federal agent to investigate her late husband's secrets, but the two become the target of unknown attackers....

Summoned
2013
as Detective Callendar
Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killin...

Timmy Muldoon and the Search for the Shadoweyes Bandit
2013
as Shadoweyes
13-year-old Timmy Muldoon's home movie evolves into the Hollywood film of his dreams.

One in the Chamber
2012
as Ray Carver
A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.

Firelight
2012
as DJ
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.

Red Tails
2012
as Major Emanuelle Stance
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

Double Victory: The Tuskegee Airmen at War
2012
as Narrator (voice)
Double Victory spotlights the historic role of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, revealing the ways these African Americans bravely fought a wa...

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
2011
as Self
A wonderful retrospective supplement that features much of the primary cast cast as well as Writer/Director John Singleton looking back at the picture...

Sacrifice
2011
as John Hebron
A tough undercover cop inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five year-old sister ...

The Hit List
2011
as Jonas Arbor
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as...

Ticking Clock
2011
as Lewis Hicks
A reporter stumbles upon the journal of a murderer with plans to butcher specific girls, and he begins to investigates on his own, and finding that ev...

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
as (archive footage)
The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from their VHS cocoons to conjure a jam on culture so cult...

Wrong Turn at Tahoe
2009
as Joshua
A small-time crime boss kills a drug dealer without realizing that the drug dealer works for the biggest crime boss in the country.

Hardwired
2009
as Luke Gibson
After a tragic accident Luke Gibson is left with critical injuries and complete amnesia. A new technological breakthrough from the Hexx Corporation - ...

Lies & Illusions
2009
as Isaac
When a menacing smuggler coolly insists that best-selling author Wes Wilson take a chauffeured backseat ride with him, Wilson's charmed life explodes ...

The Devil's Tomb
2009
as Mack
Captain Mack leads an elite military unit on a search for a missing scientist, and comes face-to-face with an an ancient evil lying beneath the Middle...

The Way of War
2009
as David Wolfe
Paramilitary operative David Wolfe stumbles upon an international conspiracy connecting presidential cabinet members to a Middle Eastern terrorist plo...

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
2009
as Ben Carson
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.

Linewatch
2008
as Michael Dixon
Academy Award Winner Cuba Gooding, Jr. is a Border Patrol Officer in the New Mexico desert with a secret past that is about to catch up with him. When...

Harold
2008
as Cromer
A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.

Hero Wanted
2008
as Liam Case
Liam Case is a garbage man whose life hasn't quite turned out the way he expected it would. In order to impress the girl of his dreams, Liam plans an ...

The Land Before Time: The Wisdom of Friends
2007
as Loofah (voice)
Littlefoot learns a series of important lessons following an incident that nearly costs his grandmother her life. Soon afterwards, three dinosaurs arr...

American Gangster
2007
as Nicky Barnes
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American...

Daddy Day Camp
2007
as Charlie Hinton
Seeking to offer his son the satisfying summer camp experience that eluded him as a child, the operator of a neighborhood daycare center opens his own...

What Love Is
2007
as Tom
It's Valentine's Day and Tom has big plans. He's about to get engaged and has a surprise party planned to share the good news with friends. But things...

Norbit
2007
as Deion Hughes
A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.

End Game
2006
as Alex Thomas
Alex Thomas was the man in charge of protecting the president but, when the time came to fulfill his duties, everything just went wrong. His conscienc...

Dirty
2006
as Salim Adel
Two gangbangers turned cops try and cover up a scandal within the LAPD.

Shadowboxer
2005
as Mikey
Mikey and Rose are professional assassins. They are also lovers, and once upon a time Rose also knew Mikey's father. During an elaborate hit job for a...

A Dairy Tale
2004
as Buck (voice)
Mrs. Caloway attempts to tell the tale of Three Little Pigs to the four piglets, but Maggie, Buck, and others keep interrupting her and adding story e...

Home on the Range
2004
as Buck (voice)
When a greedy outlaw schemes to take possession of the "Patch Of Heaven" dairy farm, three determined cows, a karate-kicking stallion and a colorful c...

Radio
2003
as Radio
In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nic...

The Fighting Temptations
2003
as Darrin Hill
Darrin Hill, a slick-talking but down-on- his-luck NYC advertising exec, returns to his hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt left him...

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
2003
as Self
Cast and crew offer up a nice overview piece, discussing the picture's authenticity, real life in the time of "Boyz n the Hood," the parallels between...

Boat Trip
2002
as Jerry Robinson
Two guys whose love lives are a wreck look forward to finding ladies on the high seas. Unfortunately, they've mistakenly been booked on a gay cruise.

Making Rat Race
2002
as Himself

Snow Dogs
2002
as Ted Brooks
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.

Zoolander
2001
as Cuba Gooding Jr.
Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year's...

America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001
as Self
A benefit concert and telethon organized by George Clooney and broadcast uninterrupted and commercial-free by the four major television networks just ...

Rat Race
2001
as Owen Templeton
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group...

In the Shadows
2001
as Draven
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, ...

Pearl Harbor
2001
as Doris Miller
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love ...

Welcome to Hollywood
2000
as Cuba Gooding Jr.
A film director decides to chart the course of a young actor as he tries to make it in Hollywood...

Men of Honor
2000
as Senior Chief Carl Brashear
Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his ...

Chill Factor
1999
as Arlo
A store clerk and an ice cream truck driver are thrown together when a dying scientist entrusts them with a deadly chemical kept in ice. This chemical...

A Murder of Crows
1999
as Lawson Russell
In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. Afte...

A Murder of Crows
1999
Producer
In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. Afte...

Instinct
1999
as Dr. Theo Caulder
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven...

What Dreams May Come
1998
as Albert Lewis
Chris Nielsen dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, h...

As Good as It Gets
1997
as Frank Sachs
Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon. Aft...

Trading Favors
1997
as Liquor Store Clerk
A seductive woman with a violent lover steals a car and entices a teenage boy to join her on a crime spree.

Jerry Maguire
1996
as Rod Tidwell
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plu...

The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
as Billy Roberts
During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. ...

Losing Isaiah
1995
as Eddie Hughes
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he ...

Outbreak
1995
as Major Salt
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus sprea...

Blown Away
1994
as Bomb Squad Class Member
Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove, who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force, his partner is killed by a bomb th...

Lightning Jack
1994
as Ben Doyle
Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become go...

Judgment Night
1993
as Mike Peterson
Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.

Daybreak
1993
as Torch
When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no ...

A Few Good Men
1992
as Cpl. Carl Hammaker
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritua...

Judgement
1992
as Officer Alvarez
A juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocently gotten involved with a gang.

Gladiator
1992
as Abraham Lincoln Haines
Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed an...

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
1992
as Tyree
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (TV) Edmund Perry appears to have things all going his way when he graduates from Phillips Exeter Academ...

Boyz n the Hood
1991
as Tré Styles
In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre...

Sing
1989
as Stanley
When a volatile young street tough with a talent for singing and dancing is tapped by the high school music teacher to lead the upcoming senior "Sing,...

Coming to America
1988
as Boy Getting Haircut
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise...

Break the Cycle
N/A
Two Memphis brothers' childhood is impacted by tragedy. They are raised by their grandmother but follow different paths into adulthood.

Giving Thanks
N/A
as Calvin
Follows two best friends working in retail who dream about living on their own while seeking fame and fortune. They come up with a plan to kidnap the ...