ACTOR

Cuba Gooding Jr.

1968 - Today

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cuba Gooding Jr. has received more than 11,346,183 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Cuba Gooding Jr. is the 2,844th most popular actor (up from 3,070th in 2019), the 4,401st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,804th in 2019) and the 1,288th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Cuba Gooding Jr. ranks 2,844 out of 13,578. Before him are Daniel Dae Kim, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Marion Ross, José Wilker, Susan Strasberg, and Norman Lloyd. After him are Lenny Montana, Carol Lynley, Eric Porter, Michel Aumont, Taheyya Kariokka, and Ágnes Esterházy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Cuba Gooding Jr. ranks 101. Before him are Aidan Gillen, Gary Coleman, Karl Ove Knausgård, Évariste Ndayishimiye, Daniel Dae Kim, and Maria Grazia Cucinotta. After him are Ramush Haradinaj, Raghad Hussein, Chris McCandless, Mauro Silva, Timothy Olyphant, and Rosalinda Celentano.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cuba Gooding Jr. ranks 4,401 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert M. Parker Jr. (1947), Susan Strasberg (1938), Mickey Mantle (1931), Dorothy Arzner (1897), Jimmy Buffett (1946), and Norman Lloyd (1914). After him are Walter Tewksbury (1876), Michael Graves (1934), Lenny Montana (1926), Carol Lynley (1942), Franklin Clarence Mars (1883), and Jeralean Talley (1899).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Cuba Gooding Jr. ranks 1,288. Before him are Colm Feore (1958), Amy Madigan (1950), Antonio Fargas (1946), Marion Ross (1928), Susan Strasberg (1938), and Norman Lloyd (1914). After him are Lenny Montana (1926), Carol Lynley (1942), Patrick O'Neal (1927), Jason Alexander (1959), Ted Cassidy (1932), and Arthur O'Connell (1908).

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Television and Movie Roles

Boyz n the Hood
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 to be a decent person. Tre's friends, on the other hand, have little regard for the law and drag the entire neighborhood into a street war...
Jul 12o 19917.6 / 10
Pearl Harbor
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 triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
May 21o 20016.941 / 10
American Gangster
Nicky Barnes
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.
Nov 2o 20077.587 / 10