O’Shea Jackson Jr.
Birthdate: Feb 24, 1991
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
O’Shea Jackson Jr. launched his movie career by portraying his rapper father Ice Cube, to whom he shared a remarkable resemblance, in the F. Gary Gray-directed music biopic of the creation of the rap group N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton (2015), co-starring Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell and Paul Giamatti, and which grossed a knockout $201.6 million for Universal Pictures.
Jackson was cast in a supporting role in director/co-writer Matt Spicer’s black comedy, Ingrid Goes West (2017), starring Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, Billy Magnussen, Wyatt Russell and Pom Klementieff, and after winning Sundance’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award went on to a Neon release and a $3.3 million return.
Jackson joined the cast of director/writer/producer Christian Gudegast’s heist thriller, Den of Thieves (2018), starring Gerard Butler, with Pablo Schreiber, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Evan Jones and Dawn Olivieri, and grossing $80.5 million for distributor STXFilms. Jackson was a co-star in the rom com, Long Shot (2019), starring Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron, with Andy Serkis, Bob Odenkirk and Alexander Skarsgård, but under-performed for Lionsgate with a poor $54 million return after premiering at the South by Southwest film festival.
O’Shea Jackson was part of the large cast of the third “Monsterverse” entry from Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), starring Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins, Charles Dance, Thomas Middleditch, Asha Hinds, David Strathairn, Ken Watanabe and Zhang Ziyi under co-writer Michael Dougherty’s direction, grossing a mediocre $387.3 million (on a $170-200 million budget).
Jackson was cast as the prison cellmate to co-lead Jamie Foxx in director/writer Dustin Daniel Cretton’s legal biopic, Just Mercy (2019), starring Michael B. Jordan, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall and Brie Larson, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival before a $50 million grossing release by Warner Bros.
Jackson was cast by director Elizabeth Banks in a major co-lead role with Keri Russell in the horror comedy, Cocaine Bear (2023), with Christian Convery, Alden Ehrenreich, Brooklynn Prince, Isaiah Whitlock Jr., Margo Martindale, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Ray Liotta, and which earned solid numbers ($90 million return) for Universal Pictures.
Jackson reunited with Gerard Butler and director/writer Christian Gudegast for the sequel, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (2025), with Evin Ahmad, Salvatore Esposito and Meadow Williams, and which was released wide by Lionsgate. O’Shea Jackson Jr. landed his first starring role under Bill Duke’s direction in the drama, Blue-Blooded (date to be announced), with Miguel A. Nunez Jr. (also a lead producer) and Desiree Mitchell, who was also screenwriter and a lead producer.
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Personal life
O’Shea Jackson Jr. was born in Los Angeles and raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills by mother Kimberly Woodruff and father O’Shea Jackson, more universally known as legendary rapper Ice Cube. Jackson Jr. has a younger sister, Kareema, and two younger brothers, Darrell and Shareef. Jackson Jr. attended and graduated from Taft High School in Woodland Hills (as did his father).
He then studied cinema at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California but dropped out to pursue a career in acting. Jackson Jr. was in a relationship with Jackie Garcia when in 2017, the couple had a daughter, Jordan. Jackson’s height is 5’ 11 ½ ”. Jackson’s estimated net worth is $3 million.
O’Shea Jackson Jr. Movies
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- 2025 |
Den of Thieves: Pantera
asDonnie Wilson
Big Nick is back on the hunt in Europe and closing in on Donnie, who is embroiled in the treacherous world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther mafia, as they plot a massive heist of the world's largest diamond exchange.
- 2024 | Dinner Party Diaries with José Andrés
- 2023 |
Cocaine Bear
asDaveed
An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
- 2019 |
- 2018 |
Den of Thieves
asDonnie Wilson
An elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew clash as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
- 2017 |
Ingrid Goes West
asDan Pinto
An unhinged social media stalker moves to LA and ingratiates herself into the life of an Instagram star.
- 2015 |
Straight Outta Compton
asIce Cube
The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
Facts About O’Shea Jackson Jr.
Brother, Father: Jackson’s brother Darrell, a fellow rapper, took the rap name “Doughboy” in honor of the character played by his father, Ice Cube, in Boyz n the Hood (1991).
Grateful: Jackson has said of his father Ice Cube that “the stress and turmoil (he) had to go through a young age to make sure that I didn’t have the same trials and tribulations, I couldn’t be more grateful.”
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