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Cuba Gooding Jr.

American actor (born 1968)

Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991), he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor playing a football star in Jerry Maguire (1996). His other notable films include A Few Good Men (1992), Judgment Night (1993),Lightning Jack (1994), As Good as It Gets (1997), Men of Honor (2000), Pearl Harbor (2001), Snow Dogs(2002), Radio (2003), Norbit (2007), Linewatch (2008), and he played Dr. Ben Carson in the film Gifted Hands(2009). He played in Red Tails (2012), and The Butler (2013). He has done voice acting in Home on the Range (2004) and The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007).

For his portrayal of O. J. Simpson in the FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He also co-starred that year in the FX series American Horror Story: Roanoke (2016).

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Cuba Gooding Jr.'s 3 Kids: All About Spencer, Mason and Piper

Cuba Gooding Jr. may be famous for his acting roles in Jerry Maguire and The People v. O.J. Simpson, but he didn't want his kids — Spencer, Mason and Piper — to immediately follow in his footsteps.

“It’s an adult responsibility to be an actor — it really is,” Cuba told The Press Association in 2007, adding that he would be “horrified” if his children wanted to enter the industry at a young age. “They have to grow up and become adults first [before] all of this praise and money and adult responsibility."

He clarified that he’d rather they “just enjoy life, experience life, be exposed to life, understand what life lessons are and morals are."

The Selma star and then-wife Sara Kapfer started a family when Spencer was born in 1994. Mason followed in 1996 and Piper joined the Gooding crew in 2005. Cuba and Kapfer split after 20 years of marriage in 2014 — the actor then filed for divorce three years later.

Now, middle child Mason is the first to become an actor like his dad, having starred in

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