Ving Rhames

Ving Rhames
Ving Rhames
	Rhames in 2008
Born	May 12, 1959; Harlem, New York, U.S.
Education	State University of New York, Purchase; Juilliard School (BFA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1984–present
Spouse(s)	Valerie Scott (m. 1994; div. 1999); Deborah Reed (m. 2000)
Children	3

Irving Rameses Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series and his supporting role as gang kingpin Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction. He also appeared in Jacob's Ladder (1990), Dave (1993), Striptease (1996), Don King: Only in America (1997), Rosewood (1997), Con Air (1997), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Baby Boy (2001), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Day of the Dead (2008), Piranha 3D (2010), and Father Figures (2017). He voiced Cobra Bubbles in the animated film Lilo & Stitch (2002). Rhames is a Golden Globe Award winner, as well as an Emmy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominee.

Early life and education

Rhames was born on May 12, 1959 in Harlem, New York City, the son of Reather, a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic.[1][2] His parents were raised as sharecroppers in South Carolina.[2][3] He was named after NBC journalist Irving R. Levine.[4]

He entered New York's High School of Performing Arts, where he discovered his love of acting. After high school, he studied drama at SUNY Purchase, where fellow acting student Stanley Tucci gave him his nickname "Ving". Rhames later transferred to the Juilliard School's Drama Division (Group 12: 1979–1983)[5] where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1983.[6]

Career

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

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

Rhames won a Golden Globe in 1998 for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film in HBO's Don King: Only in America. At the ceremony he gave his award to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon, saying, "I feel that being an artist is about giving, and I'd like 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 tried unsuccessfully to give the award back 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 prepared for Rhames. That moment was #98 on E!'s 101 Awesome Moments in Entertainment.[7][8][9] The New York Times lauded Rhames for the act, writing that in doing so he "demonstrated his capacity for abundant generosity."[9]

Rhames appeared in Striptease (1996) as the wisecracking bodyguard Shad, as Marcus in Bringing Out the Dead (1999), and reprised his Luther Stickell role for Mission: Impossible 2 (2000). He played Johnnie Cochran in American Tragedy (2000), the ex-con boyfriend of Jodie's mother in the John Singleton film Baby Boy, portrayed a gay drag queen in the television movie Holiday Heart, contributed his voice for the character of Cobra Bubbles in Lilo & Stitch (2002) and the subsequent TV series, and played a stoic cop fighting zombie hordes in Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Day of the Dead (2008) remakes. Rhames has also appeared in a series of television commercials for RadioShack, usually performing with Vanessa L. Williams.

In March 2005, Rhames played the lead role on a new Kojak series, on the USA Network cable channel (and on ITV4 in the UK). The bald head, lollipops, and "Who loves ya, baby?" catchphrase remained intact, but little else remained from the Telly Savalas-starring original.

Rhames voiced the part of Tobias Jones in the computer game Driver 3.

Reprising his Luther Stickell role, Rhames co-starred in Mission: Impossible III (2006), had a cameo appearance in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), and played a major role in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) and Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), the fifth and sixth installments in the Mission Impossible film series, respectively.[10] He is the only actor besides Tom Cruise to appear in all six Mission: Impossible films. It was announced that he would have a role in the Aquaman-based show Mercy Reef; however, due to the integration of The WB and UPN for the new network, CW, Mercy Reef was not picked up. Rhames played a homosexual – and possibly also homicidal – firefighter who comes out of the closet in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. He narrates the BET television series American Gangster.

In the 2008 film Saving God, he played an ex-con who is released from prison a changed man, looking to take over his father's former church congregation in a deteriorating neighborhood. Rhames stars in Phantom Punch, a biopic of boxer Sonny Liston, released directly to DVD, as well as The Tournament, portraying a fighter out to win a no-rules tournament.

Rhames makes an appearance in Ludacris's song "Southern Gangstas" on his album Theater of the Mind. Rappers Playaz Circle and Rick Ross are also featured on the track.

He filmed the movie The Red Canvas with Ernie Reyes Jr., UFC lightweight contender Gray Maynard, and Randy Couture. In 2010, he filed a lawsuit against the film's producer,[11] claiming that he had only been paid $175,000 of a $200,000 contract.

In 2015, he filmed a series of commercials for The ADT Corporation.

Rhames is one of the narrators for UFC.

Rhames narrated the team introductions for the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI in February 2017.

Since 2014, Rhames' deep voice has provided the narration for numerous Arby's commercials, with the catchphrase "Arby's: We have the meats!"

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Go Tell It on the Mountain	Young Gabriel Grimes
1986	Native Son	Jack
1988	Patty Hearst	Cinque Mtume
1989	Casualties of War	Lt. Reilly
1990	The Long Walk Home	Herbert Cotter
1990	Jacob's Ladder	George
1991	Flight of the Intruder	CPO Frank McRae
1991	Homicide	Robert Randolph
1991	The People Under the Stairs	Leroy
1992	Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot	Mr. Stereo
1993	Blood in Blood Out	Ivan
1993	Dave	Duane Stevenson
1993	The Saint of Fort Washington	Little Leroy
1994	Pulp Fiction	Marsellus Wallace
1994	Drop Squad	Garvey
1995	Kiss of Death	Omar
1996	Mission: Impossible	Luther Stickell
1996	Striptease	Shad
1997	Dangerous Ground	Muki
1997	Rosewood	Mann
1997	Con Air	Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones
1998	Body Count	Pike
1998	Out of Sight	Buddy Bragg
1999	Entrapment	Aaron Thibadeaux	Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Supporting Actor – Action
1999	Bringing Out the Dead	Marcus	Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor
2000	Mission: Impossible 2	Luther Stickell
2001	Baby Boy	Melvin	Nominated—Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actor
2001	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	Ryan Whittaker
2002	Undisputed	George "Iceman" Chambers
2002	Lilo & Stitch	Cobra Bubbles (voice)
2002	Dark Blue	Arthur Holland	Nominated—Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actor
2003	Stitch! The Movie	Cobra Bubbles (voice)
2003	Sin	Eddie Burns
2004	Dawn of the Dead	Sgt. Kenneth Hall
2005	Back in the Day	Joseph "J-Bone" Brown
2005	Animal	James "Animal" Allen
2005	Shooting Gallery	Cue Ball Carl Bridgers
2006	Mission: Impossible III	Luther Stickell
2006	Idlewild	Spats
2006	Leroy & Stitch	Cobra Bubbles (voice)
2007	I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry	Fred G. Duncan
2008	Animal 2	James "Animal" Allen
2008	A Broken Life	Vet
2008	Day of the Dead	Capt. Rhodes
2008	Saving God	Armstrong Cane
2008	Phantom Punch	Sonny Liston
2009	Echelon Conspiracy	Agent Dave Grant
2009	The Bridge to Nowhere	Nate
2009	Evil Angel	Carruthers
2009	The Tournament	Joshua Harlow
2009	The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard	Jibby Newsome
2009	Surrogates	The Prophet
2009	Give 'Em Hell, Malone	Boulder
2010	Operation: Endgame	Judgement
2010	Caged Animal	Miles "Cain" Skinner
2010	Master Harold...and the Boys	Sam
2010	Piranha 3D	Deputy Fallon
2010	Red Canvas	Himself
2010	King of the Avenue	Norman De'Sha
2010	Death Race 2	R.H. Weyland	Direct-to-video
2011	Julia X	The Man
2011	Pimp Bullies	Miguel
2011	Soldiers of Fortune	Grimaud Torneur
2011	The River Murders	Captain Langley
2011	Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol	Luther Stickell	Uncredited cameo
2011	Zombie Apocalypse	Henry
2012	Mafia	Renzo Wes
2012	Seven Below	Jack
2012	Piranha 3DD	Deputy Fallon
2012	Won't Back Down	Principal Thompson
2013	Death Race 3: Inferno	R.H. Weyland	Direct-to-video
2013	Force of Execution	Ice Man	Direct-to-video
2014	Jamesy Boy	Conrad
2015	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation	Luther Stickell
2015	Operator	Richard
2017	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Charlie-27	Cameo
2017	The Star	Thaddeus (voice)
2017	Father Figures	Rod Hamilton
2018	Mission: Impossible – Fallout	Luther Stickell
2021	Mission: Impossible 7	Luther Stickell	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Miami Vice	Georges	Episode: "The Maze"
1986	Crime Story	Hector Lincoln	Episode: "Abrams for the Defense"
1987	Miami Vice	Walker Monroe	Episode: "Child's Play"
1987	Tour of Duty	SP4 Tucker	Episode: "Burn Baby, Burn"
1988	Spenser: For Hire	Henry Brown	Episode: "McAllister"
1989	Men	Charlie Hazard	6 episodes
1989	The Equalizer	Luther Paxton	Episode: "Suicide Squad"
1990	When You Remember Me	Leon	TV film
1994–1996	ER	Walter Robbins	8 episodes
1995	Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning	Detective Artie Brown	TV film
1995	New York Undercover	Max Villareal	Episode: "Olde Thyme Religion"
1995	Deadly Whispers	Det. Jackson	TV film
1997	Don King: Only in America	Don King	TV film Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
2000	American Tragedy	Johnnie Cochran	TV film
2000	Holiday Heart	Holiday Heart	TV film Nominated—Black Reel Award for Best Actor on Television
2001	UC: Undercover	Quito Real	3 episodes
2002	Sins of the Father	Garrick Jones	TV film Nominated—Black Reel Award for Best Actor on Television
2002	Little John	John Morgan	TV film
2002	RFK	Judge Jones	TV film
2002	The Proud Family	Garrett Krebs	Episode: "A Hero for Halloween"
2002–2003	The District	Attorney General Troy Hatcher	5 episodes
2003	Lilo & Stitch: The Series	Cobra Bubbles (voice)
2003	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius	Chief	Episode: "Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion"
2005	Kojak	Theo Kojak	9 episodes Nominated—Black Reel Award for Best Actor on Television
2006	Aquaman	McCaffery	TV pilot
2007	Football Wives	Frank Wallingford	TV pilot
2010	Gravity	Dogg McFee	10 episodes
2011	Black Jack	Black Jack	TV film
2013	Monday Mornings	Dr. Jorge Villanueva	10 episodes
2014	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	Cecil Price	TV film

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
2003	Mission: Impossible – Operation Surma	Luther Stickell
2004	Driver 3	Tobias Jones
2017	Call of Duty: WWII	Jefferson Potts

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
1998	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actor in Mini-Series or Motion Picture	Don King: Only in America	Won	[12]
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Best Actor in Mini-Series or Movie	Don King: Only in America	Nominated
	Acalpulco Black Film Festival	Best Actor	Rosewood	Nominated
	Image Awards	Outstanding Actor in Motion Picture	Rosewood	Nominated
	Image Awards	Outstanding Actor in Television or Mini-Series	Don King: Only in America	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Actor - Mini-Series or TV Film	Don King: Only in America	Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Best Actor - Mini-Series or TV Film	Don King: Only in America	Nominated
2000	Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Action	Entrapment	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Comedy or Music	Bringing out the Dead	Nominated
	ShoWest Convention	Best Supporting Actor		Won	[13]
2001	Black Reel Awards	Best Actor - Network	Holiday Heart	Nominated
	Image Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture	Mission: Impossible 2	Nominated
	Locarno International Film Festival	Special Mention	Baby Boy	Won
2002	Black Reel Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Baby Boy	Nominated
	Image Awards	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	UC: Undercover	Nominated
	Image Awards	Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture	Baby Boy	Nominated
2003	Black Reel Awards	Best Actor - Mini-Series	Sins of the Father	Nominated
	Image Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Comedy	The Proud Family	Nominated
	Image Awards	Best Actor - Mini-Series or TV Film	Sins of the Father	Nominated
2004	Black Reel Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Dark Blue	Nominated
2006	Black Reel Awards	Best Actor - Television	Kojak	Nominated
2015	Black Reel Awards	Best Actor - Television	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	Nominated
2015	Image Awards	Best Actor - Television	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	Nominated

gollark: https://esolangs.org/wiki/WHY

gollark: All three.

gollark: Unless you turn up the optimization setting to ~30, at which point it makes quite fast code.

gollark: ```python#!/usr/bin/env python3import argparseimport subprocessparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Compile a WHY program')parser.add_argument("input", help="File containing WHY source code")parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", help="Filename of the output executable to make", default="./a.why")parser.add_argument("-O", "--optimize", help="Optimization level", type=int, default="0")args = parser.parse_args()def build_C(args): template = """#define QUITELONG long long intconst QUITELONG max = @max@;int main() { QUITELONG i = 0; while (i < max) { i++; } @code@} """ for k, v in args.items(): template = template.replace(f"@{k}@", str(v)) return templateinput = args.inputoutput = args.outputtemp = "ignore-this-please"with open(input, "r") as f: contents = f.read() looplen = max(1000, (2 ** -args.optimize) * 1000000000) code = build_C({ "code": contents, "max": looplen }) with open(temp, "w") as out: out.write(code)subprocess.run(["gcc", "-x", "c", "-o", output, temp])```The compiler for the new `WHY` language. Made as a joke because someone on the esolangs server insisted that all compiled languages were fast.

gollark: BT being bad, who would ever guess so?

References

Mills, Bart (October 17, 1999). "Ving And A Prayer Faith Is The Cornerstone Of Rhames' Life — And His Character's In Scorsese's 'Bringing Out The Dead'". New York Daily News.
Charles, Nick (June 23, 1996). "Nursery Rhames ... 'Mission Impossible' And 'Pulp Fiction' Star Ving Learned His Values At His Mother's Knee". New York Daily News.
WHO LOVES YA, BABY? 'KOJAK'S' BACK – AND THIS TIME, HE'S BLACK
Newsmakers – Newsweek Entertainment – MSNBC.com
"Alumni News". The Juilliard School. April 2010. Archived from the original on November 11, 2011.
"Ving Rhames". All Movie Guide. The New York Times. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
Riché Richardson (2007). Black masculinity and the U.S. South: from Uncle Tom to gangsta. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-2890-1. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
Marlene Calvin (2010). Diasporic Lives: Alienation and Violence as Themes in African American Jamaican Cultural Texts. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 3-643-10574-6. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
Gerston, Jill. "Ving Rhames – About This Person". The New York Times. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
"Ving Rhames Returns for Mission: Impossible 5". www.superherohype.com. August 17, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
Ving Rhames to Producer: Do I Look Like a Bitch?. TMZ.com. Retrieved on August 28, 2010.
"1998 Golden Globes Award". Ropeofsilicon. Retrieved February 12, 2015.
Jones, Anderson (March 10, 2000). "ShoWest 2000 Signs Off". Eonline.com. Retrieved February 12, 2015.

External links

Ving Rhames on IMDb
Ving Rhames at the Internet Broadway Database

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[1] Mills, Bart (October 17, 1999). "Ving And A Prayer Faith Is The Cornerstone Of Rhames' Life — And His Character's In Scorsese's 'Bringing Out The Dead'". New York Daily News.

[swe-2] Charles, Nick (June 23, 1996). "Nursery Rhames ... 'Mission Impossible' And 'Pulp Fiction' Star Ving Learned His Values At His Mother's Knee". New York Daily News.

[3] WHO LOVES YA, BABY? 'KOJAK'S' BACK – AND THIS TIME, HE'S BLACK

[4] Newsmakers – Newsweek Entertainment – MSNBC.com

[5] "Alumni News". The Juilliard School. April 2010. Archived from the original on November 11, 2011.

[6] "Ving Rhames". All Movie Guide. The New York Times. Retrieved April 4, 2012.

[google6-7] Riché Richardson (2007). Black masculinity and the U.S. South: from Uncle Tom to gangsta. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-2890-1. Retrieved February 24, 2011.

[8] Marlene Calvin (2010). Diasporic Lives: Alienation and Violence as Themes in African American Jamaican Cultural Texts. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 3-643-10574-6. Retrieved February 24, 2011.

[nytimes1-9] Gerston, Jill. "Ving Rhames – About This Person". The New York Times. Retrieved February 24, 2011.

[10] "Ving Rhames Returns for Mission: Impossible 5". www.superherohype.com. August 17, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.

[autogenerated1-11] Ving Rhames to Producer: Do I Look Like a Bitch?. TMZ.com. Retrieved on August 28, 2010.

[12] "1998 Golden Globes Award". Ropeofsilicon. Retrieved February 12, 2015.

[13] Jones, Anderson (March 10, 2000). "ShoWest 2000 Signs Off". Eonline.com. Retrieved February 12, 2015.