# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ving-rhames
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:16:57.348Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ving-rhames"
name: "Ving Rhames"
slug: "ving-rhames"
description: "Irving Rameses Rhames is an American actor. Born and raised in Harlem, New York City, he studied drama at SUNY Purchase before transferring to the Juilliard School, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1983. After early stage work in Shakespeare and contemporary plays, he made his screen debut in 1985 and gained attention through roles in Jacob's Ladder (1990), The People Under the Stairs (1991), and as Marsellus Wallace in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994). Rhames achieved further recognition as Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series, appearing in all eight installments."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ving_Rhames_2010_(4710601891)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           27.905892
  currentAttention:     1.6
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump