O'Shea Jackson Jr. (born February 24, 1991) is an American actor and rapper. He is the oldest son of Ice Cube and, in his feature film debut, portrayed his father in the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton.

Early life
O'Shea Jackson Jr. was born in Los Angeles, California, to O'Shea Jackson Sr., better known as Ice Cube, and Kimberly Woodruff. Jackson was raised in the San Fernando Valley, and is the first born of four children. He has two brothers, Darrell and Shareef, and a sister, Kareema. Darrell is also a rapper under the name Doughboy, which is the nickname of the character his father portrayed in his first film, Boyz n the Hood. Jackson attended William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California, from which he graduated in 2009. His father also attended Taft High School. Jackson graduated from the University of Southern California, where he studied screenwriting.