How old is Cuba Gooding Jr, who’s his former partner Sara Kapfer and when did the Chicago star play OJ Simpson in American Crime Story?
CUBA Gooding Jr. is an Academy Award-winning American actor and comedian who has appeared in multiple Hollywood hits.
His string of box office smashes over the years include American Gangster and Jerry Maguire but what are his biggest movies... and who's his former partner Sara Kapfer?
Who is Cuba Gooding Jr. and who's his former partner Sara Kapfer?
Cuba Gooding Jr. was born in The Bronx, New York, on January 2, 1968.
In 1996, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Rod Tidwell in Jerry Maguire. His "Show me the money!" line in the film became a catchphrase across the world.
Cuba's first job in showbiz was as a breakdancer - a gig that saw him perform with Lionel Richie at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Gooding Jr. married his high school sweetheart, Sara Kapfer, in 1994 - and the pair have three children together.
However, in 2014, Kapfer - a teacher - filed for legal separation from Gooding and the actor filed for divorce in January 2017.
Gooding hasn’t commented publicly on the divorce, but he talked about his relationship during a 2016 interview on The Steve Harvey Show.
He said: “Listen, you know how things happen. Things happen, you grow up … I took my wife on a date the other day. Took her to see a movie the other day. Yeah. We got kids, man. We got to keep this together, strong, you know? That’s how I see it.”
Most read in TV & Showbiz
What are Cuba's hit movies?
Cuba has appeared in a string of box office blockbusters over the years, including:
- Outbreak (1995)
- Jerry Maguire(1996)
- As Good as It Gets (1997)
- What Dreams May Come (1998)
- Men of Honor (2000)
- Pearl Harbor (2001)
- Radio (2003)
- American Gangster (2007)
More recently, Cuba has appeared in critically ignored, direct-to-DVD films and, in 2012, he starred in a TV pilot for Fox called Guilty - but it was ultimately not picked up by the network.
Between the years 2016-2018, Gooding starred in American Crime Story as OJ Simpson.
Cuba Gooding Jr. in Chicago on the West End
Cuba is currently starring as Billy Flynn in Chicago in London's West End.
The show will begin at the Phoenix Theatre on 26 March 2018 after more than five years away from the West End.
Chicago first opened in New York in 1996 and ran in London for 15 years from 1997.
The music opened at the Adelphi Theatre where it won the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production as well as the 1998 Critics Circle Drama Award for Best Musical.
It'll also be Cuba's first ever role in a musical.