Cuba Gooding Jr.Cuba Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. His family moved to Los Angeles after his father's group had a hit single with "Everybody Plays the Fool" in 1972 by Cuba Gooding. Unfortunately, the elder Gooding abandoned his family two years later. The subsequently tumultuous nature of Gooding Jr.'s upbringing did not deter him from achievement: During his teens, he attended four different high schools but managed to become class president of three of them. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire. Cuba Gooding, Jr. is married to schoolteacher Sara Kapfer and they have two children. Filmography
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is married to schoolteacher Sara Kapfer and they have two children. He has five children to his first marriage, and one to his second. Cuba Gooding, Jr. Hogan married his Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski in 1990 after divorcing his first wife Noeline. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire. 1986's Crocodile Dundee proved to be the most successful Australian film ever, and launched Hogan's international film career. The subsequently tumultuous nature of Gooding Jr.'s upbringing did not deter him from achievement: During his teens, he attended four different high schools but managed to become class president of three of them. Hogan's first film, featuring a similarly down-to-earth hunter travelling from the Australian Outback to New York City, was privately funded by Hogan and a group of private investors including much of its cast, entrepreneur Kerry Packer, and cricketers Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee, and Rodney Marsh. Unfortunately, the elder Gooding abandoned his family two years later. The character's most notable line (spoken incredulously at a ballet performance) "strewth, mate, there's a bloke down there with no strides on!" followed Hogan for years, and the popularity of its "fish out of water" humour was repeated with his next endeavour. His family moved to Los Angeles after his father's group had a hit single with "Everybody Plays the Fool" in 1972 by Cuba Gooding. During the 1980s Hogan appeared on British television in a long-running series of advertisements for Foster's Lager, in which he played an earthy Australian abroad in London. Cuba Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. The series, which ran for 60 episodes between 1973 and 1984, proved to be popular both in his native country and in the UK, and showcased his trademark lighthearted but laddish "Aussie" humour. Radio (2003). Hogan followed this with his own comedy sketch programme, The Paul Hogan Show, which he produced, co-wrote, and in which he played a panoply of comedic characters. Psychic (2002). Formerly a rigger working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Hogan rose to fame in the early 1970s in the comedy series A Current Affair. Snow Dogs (2002). Paul Hogan (born October 8, 1939 in Lightning Ridge, Australia) is an Australian actor and comedian. Boat Trip (2002). In The Shadows (2001). Pearl Harbor (2001). Rat Race (2001). Zoolander (2001). Men Of Honor (2000). Chill Factor (1999). Instinct (1999). A Murder Of Crows (1998). What Dreams May Come (1998). As Good As It Gets (1997). Jerry Maguire (1996). The Tuskejee Airmen (1996). Losing Isiah (1995). Outbreak (1995). Lightning Jack(1994). Daybreak (1993). Judgment Night (1993). A Few Good Men (1992). Gladiator (1992). Hitz (1992). Murder Without Motive (1992). Boyz N the Hood (1991). Sing (1989). Coming To America (1988). |