Ving Rhames

At 64 years old, Ving Rhames has this physical status:

Irving Rameses Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is an American stage and film actor.

He is best known for his role as Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series and his supporting role as gang kingpin Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction.

Don King (1990), Ladder (1990), Striptease (1996), Don King (1999), Only in America (1999), The Dead (1999), Taking Out the Dead (1996), Taking Out the Dead (1999), King of the Dead (1999), The Dead (2004), Piranha 3D (2010), and Father Figures (2017).

In the animated film Lilo & Stitch (2002), he played Cobra Bubbles.

Rhames is a Golden Globe Award winner as well as an Emmy Award and Screen Actor Guild Award nominee.

Early life and education

Rhames was born and raised in Harlem, New York City. After NBC journalist Irving R. Levine, he was named "Irving."

Rhames enrolled in the High School of Performing Arts in New York, where he discovered his passion for acting. He studied drama at SUNY Purchase, where fellow acting student Stanley Tucci gave him his nickname "Ving" after high school. Rhames later attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division (Group 12: 1979–1983), where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1983.

Personal life

Rhames is a Christian. He lives in Santa Monica, California, as of 2018. He has been married to Deborah Reed since 2000.

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Career

In 1984, Rhames appeared on Broadway for the first time in the play The Boys of Winter. In Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs (1991), Leroy watched over Kevin Kline as Secret Service agent Duane Stevensen in Dave (1993), and Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction (1994). In Out of Sight (1998), he was also a buddy of George Clooney.

On the television medical drama ER, Rhames played Dr. Peter Benton's brother-in-law, a recurring role he occupied for three seasons. In Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible (1996), he played ace computer hacker Luther Stickell opposite Tom Cruise. Rhames portrayed Nathan 'Diamond Dog' Jones in the popular film Con Air and Muki's Dangerous Ground in 1997.

In 1998, Rhames was named Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film in HBO's Don King's Don King: Only in America. "I feel that being an artist is about giving," he said at the dinner, and he wanted to give this to you." Lemmon was clearly touched by the gesture, as was the celebrity audience who gave Lemmon a standing ovation. Lemmon, who had unsuccessfully to award the award to Rhames, said it was "one of the nicest, sweetest moments I've ever known in my life." The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced later that they would have a duplicate award for Rhames.

That moment was #98 on E!

It's 101 Awesome Moments in Entertainment. The New York Times lauded Rhames for the deed, writing that in doing so, he "demonstrated his capacity for abundant generosity."

Rhames appeared in Striptease (1996) as the wisecracking bodyguard Shad, Jesus-praising medic Marcus in Bringing Out the Dead (1999), and in Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), he reprised his Luther Stickell role. In American Tragedy (2000), Johnnie Cochran, Jodie's ex-con boyfriend in Jodie's mother's film Baby Boy, played a gay drag queen, and in the upcoming television series Love It (2005) and Days of the Dead (2008) remakes, he played a stoic cop fighting zombie hordes. Rhames has also appeared in a series of television commercials for RadioShack, most often with Vanessa L. Williams.

Rhames appeared in a new Kojak series on the USA Network cable channel (and in the United Kingdom) in March 2005 (and on ITV4 in the United Kingdom). "Who loves ya, baby" ya, the bald head, lollipops, and "Who loves ya, baby." The catch remained intact, but little else from the Telly Savalas-starring original was missing.

In the computer game Driver 3, Rhames performed Tobias Jones.

Rhames co-starred in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) and Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), the fifth and sixth installments of the Mission Impossible film series, respectively, with Reprising his Luther Stickell role. He is the only actor other than Tom Cruise to appear in all six Mission: Impossible films. He had been announced that he would appear on the Aquaman-based show Mercy Reef, but Mercy Reef was not included in the new network, CW, because of the WB and UPN's integration. In I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Rhames played a homosexual – and possibly also homicidal – firefighter who comes out of the closet. He narrates the BET television series American Gangster.

He played an ex-convict who has been released from jail as a changed man in the 2008 film Saving God, seeking to take over his father's old church congregation in a deteriorating neighborhood. In Phantom Punch, a boxer Sonny Liston's biopic, as well as The Tournament, depicting a fighter out to win a no-rules tournament.

On his album Theater of the Mind, Rhames appears in Ludacris' song "Southern Gangstas." On the track, Rappers Playaz Circle and Rick Ross are also included.

Ernie Reyes Jr., UFC lightweight champion Gray Maynard, and Randy Couture shot the film The Red Canvas. He filed a lawsuit against the film's director in 2010, claiming that he was only paid $175,000 of a $200,000 loan.

He produced a series of commercials for The ADT Corporation in 2015.

Rhames is one of UFC's narrators.

In Super Bowl LI, Rhames narrated the team introductions for the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons.

Rhames has been providing the narration for several Arby's shops since 2014, with the tag "We have the meats!"

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