Cuba Gooding Jr.
Year Title Role
1988 Coming to America Boy Getting Haircut
1989 Sing Stanley
1991 Boyz n the Hood Tre Styles
1992 Gladiator Abraham Lincoln Haines
1992 A Few Good Men Corporal Carl Edward Hammaker
1993 Judgment Night Mike Peterson
1994 Lightning Jack Ben Doyle
1994 Blown Away Bomb Squad Class Member
1995 Outbreak Maj. Salt
1995 Losing Isaiah Eddie Hughes
1996 Jerry Maguire Rod Tidwell
1997 As Good as It Gets Frank Sachs
1998 What Dreams May Come Albert Lewis
1998 A Murder of Crows Lawson Russell
1999 Instinct Theo Caulder
1999 Chill Factor Arlo
2000 Men of Honor BM2/Chief/Senior Chief Carl Brashear
2001 Pearl Harbor Petty Officer Doris Miller
2001 Rat Race Owen Templeton
2001 In the Shadows Draven
Filmography -- Film
Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor, writer, producer, and director. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991), he appeared in A Few Good Men (1992), The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), Outbreak (1995), and Jerry Maguire (1996), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and What Dreams May Come (1998). He gained later attention for his roles in Men of Honor (2000) as Carl Brashear, and in Michael Bay's World War II epic Pearl Harbor (2001) as Doris Miller. His other notable films include As Good as It Gets (1997), the ensemble farce Rat Race (2001), Radio (2003), American Gangster (2007), Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013), and Selma (2014), playing civil rights attorney Fred Gray. In 2016, he portrayed O.J. Simpson in the FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, and co-starred in the sixth season of the FX anthology series American Horror Story, subtitled Roanoke.