Ving Rhames
American actor · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1959 · age 67
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.
Ving Rhames is read about 3,128 times a day, in 48 languages.
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The MongooseFilm, Tanker2025
Dope ThiefSeries, Bartram 'Bart' Driscoll2024
The Garfield MovieFilm, Otto (voice)2022
Wendell & WildFilm, Buffalo Belzer (voice)2015
Mission: Impossible - Rogue NationFilm, Luther Stickell2012
Piranha 3DDFilm, Deputy Fallon (uncredited)2010
GravitySeries, Dogg McFee
Death Race 2Film, 2010Weyland2007
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & LarryFilm, Duncan2003
Lilo & Stitch: The SeriesSeries, Cobra Bubbles (voice)
Stitch! The MovieFilm, 2003Cobra Bubbles (voice)2001
The Proud FamilySeries, Garrett Krebs (voice)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits WithinFilm, 2001Sgt. Ryan Whitaker (voice)1999
Bringing Out the DeadFilm, Marcus1998Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television FilmAward1997
The ViewSeries
Con AirFilm, 1997Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones1993
Late Night with Conan O'BrienSeries
Bound by HonorFilm, 1993Ivan1991
The People Under the StairsFilm, Leroy1989
Casualties of WarFilm, Lt. Reilly1986
Crime StorySeries, Hector Lincoln1985
Spenser: For HireSeries1982
American PlayhouseSeries, Young Gabriel1959Born12 May 1959People around Ving
Close ties
Tom Cruise Produced Mission: Impossible (1996)
J. J. Abrams Produced Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Christopher McQuarrie Directed Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
David Ellison Produced Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Paula Wagner Produced Mission: Impossible (1996)
Simon Pegg Also in Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Bryan Burk Produced Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Kevin Michael Richardson Also in Lilo & Stitch and Stitch! The Movie
Taylor Hackford Directed Blood In Blood Out (1993)
Roel Reiné Directed Death Race 2 and Death Race 3: Inferno
Ivan Reitman Directed Dave (1993)
Paul W. S. Anderson Produced Death Race 2 and Death Race 3: Inferno
Angela Bassett Also in ER and Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Brian De Palma Directed Mission: Impossible (1996)
Danny Trejo Also in Bound by Honor, Con Air and Death Race 2
John Singleton Directed Baby Boy and Rosewood
Robert Dornhelm Directed RFK and Sins of the Father
Robert Townsend Directed Holiday Heart and Phantom Punch
Alec Baldwin Also in Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Michelle Monaghan Also in Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Rebecca Ferguson Also in Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Pom Klementieff Also in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Henry Czerny Also in Mission: Impossible (1996)
Hayley Atwell Also in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Known for
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Pulp Fiction 1994
The Wild Robot 2024
Bound by Honor 1993
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017
Lilo & Stitch 2002
Filmography 40
156 credits on file
Television 24
Media & music
Photos 1
Awards
About this person
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.
