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My Take
Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Oscar-night celebration remains one of my favorite moments in awards history, because it captured exactly what he brings to the screen: emotion without a safety net. He commits completely to every role, whether the material deserves it or not, and that fearlessness made his best performances unforgettable. His filmography is uneven — some choices after the Academy Award puzzled me — but the range itself, sliding from broad comedy to wrenching drama, is rarer than people admit. A New York kid who broke through on pure energy, he reminds me that emotional openness is a skill. When the script is right, few actors feel this alive.
Overview
Cuba Gooding Jr. is a film actor from United States.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Cuba Gooding Jr.
- Name (Japanese)
- キューバ・グッディング・ジュニア
- Reading
- きゅーば・ぐっでぃんぐ・じゅにあ
- Born
- January 2, 1968 (age 58)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Monkey
- Origin
- New York City, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / stage actor / television actor / comedian / film director
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- North Hollywood High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1997 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
- Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
- American Comedy Awards
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Film actor — see all → · Stage actor — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.