O'Shea Jackson Sr. known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, actor, and filmmaker.

His lyrics on N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton contributed to gangsta rap's widespread popularity, and his political rap solo albums of 1990 and 1991 were critically and commercially successful.

Cube has also had an active film career since the early 1990s. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of N.W.A in 2016.

Ice Cube entered cinema by playing Doughboy in director John Singleton's feature debut Boyz n the Hood, a 1991 drama named after a 1987 rap song that Ice Cube wrote. Cube also cowrote and starred in the 1995 comedy film Friday, it premised a successful franchise and reshaped his persona into a friendly movie star.

His directorial debut was the 1998 film The Player's Club. By 2020, his acting roles included about 40 films, among them the 1999 war comedy Three Kings, family comedies like the Barbershop series, and buddy cop comedies 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, and Ride Along he also was an executive producer of many of these films, as well as of the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton.

Born: 15 June 1969