Cuba Gooding, Jr. is best known for his Oscar-winning portrayal of the charmingly arrogant professional football player Rod Tidwell in JERRY MAGUIRE. Starring opposite Tom Cruise in the Cameron Crowe-directed film, he solidified his position as one of Hollywood’s most talented actors. In addition to an Oscar, Gooding was also honored with the Screen Actors Guild Award, the Broadcasters Film Critics Award and the Chicago Film Critics Award for this role.

Gooding can next be seen as a rogue police officer Salim Adel in the gritty independent film DIRTY, for which he is already gaining critical acclaim. DIRTY opens in theaters across the nation in February 2006. He will be seen later this year opposite Helen Mirren and Lee Daniels in SHADOWBOXER, whose cast also features Macy Gray, Mo’Nique Imes-Jackson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In 2006 he will also been seen in the films WHAT LOVE IS and END GAME.

Through his career Gooding has gained recognition in supporting roles in such films as the Oscar- nominated A FEW GOOD MEN (1992), starring opposite Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore, AS GOOD AS IT GETS, opposite Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME with Robin Williams, and the critically acclaimed MEN OF HONOR with Robert DeNiro.