O’Shea Jackson Jr. Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Girlfriend, Family, Career & More)
O’Shea Jackson Jr. is an American actor and musician who is the son of rapper Ice Cube. He portrayed his father in the biopic Straight Outta Compton in the year of 2015, which was his feature film debut. His elder brother is Darrell who is also a rapper who goes by the name of Doughboy and it was the nickname of the character his father portrayed and Darin “Doughboy” Baker, in his first film Boyz n the Hood in the year 1991.
Personal Details
Full Name | O’Shea Jackson Jr. |
Nick Name | OMG |
Date of Birth | 24 February 1991 |
Age | 32 years as of February 2023 |
Birth Place | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Residence | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Ethnicity | Black |
Religion | Christian |
Nationality | American |
Occupations | Actor and Rapper |
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Net Worth | $3 Million USD as of 2022 |
Marital Status | Unmarried |
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Physical Appearance
Eye Colour | Dark Brown |
Hair Colour | Black |
Chest | 44 Inches |
Waist | 34 Inches |
Biceps | 16 Inches |
Height | 5’11” Feet |
Weight | 81 kg |
Personal Life (Family, Friends, Girlfriends, Children)
Father | O’Shea Jackson Sr / Ice Cube |
Mother | Kimberly Woodruff |
Sibling | Darrell Jackson, Shareef Jackson (brother), and Deja Jackson, Kareema (sister) |
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Early life, Family, and Relationship
O’Shea Jackson Jr. was born on 24th February 1991 and was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Jackson Jr. grew up in the San Fernando Valley and has two brothers and a sister in a family of four children.
As for his education, he has done his high school at William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California, and got graduated from there in the year of 2009.
This Taft High school was the same one his father went to. He has also graduated from the University of Southern California where studied screenwriting.
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O’Shea Jackson’s Success and career
O’Shea Jackson Jr. was portraying his father Jackson Sr. or better known as Ice Cube in Straight Outta Compton a biographical film about N.W.A. in the June of 2014.
The movie was released on the 14th of August 2015 with positive reviews and he was doing a great job along with the fact that he resembled his father’s physical appearance which his father himself described as spot-on.
He was someone who was born to play this part, these were the words he told Jimmy Kimmel in the October of 2014, and in the year 2017 Jackson played Dan Pinto, the Batman-obsessed screenwriter, the love interest of Aubrey Plaza’s character Ingrid Thorburn and a landlord.
The movie Ingrid goes west has a lot of critics who are including Collider – commenting on his scene-stealing abilities, the Los Angeles Times, and Vulture. Jackson starred in the movie of Den Thieves which also included Gerard Butler and 50 Cent.
He also acted in two May 2019 movies and has a supporting role as Lance in the romantic comedy Long shot with Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron. He played the best friend of Rogen’s character and In Godzilla: King of the Monsters, he was acting as Barnes, the leader of the G-Team.
O’Shea Jackson Jr. Movies
Year | Film Name | Worked as |
2023 | Cocaine Bear | Daveed |
2019 | Long Shot | Lance |
Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Chief Warrant Officer Jackson Barnes | |
Just Mercy | Anthony Ray Hinton | |
2018 | Den of Thieves | Donnie Wilson |
2017 | Ingrid Goes West | Daniel “Dan” Pinto |
2015 | Straight Outta Compton | Ice Cube |
O’Shea Jackson Jr. Biography TV Shows, Movies
Year | TV Shows | Worked as |
2022 | Obi-Wan Kenobi | Kawlan Roken |
2021–present | Swagger | Ike |
2021 | The Premise | Cooper |
The Now | Coop | |
2018 | Drunk History | DJ Kool Herc |
O’Shea Jackson Jr. Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Girlfriend, Family, Career & More)