What does Ving Rhames look like?
Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames was born May 12, 1959 in New York City. He discovered a love of acting in High School, and got his start in the Broadway play The Winter Boys, and from there worked in a number of Soap Operas and supporting roles until his big break as crime boss Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction.
He has since worked in the Mission: Impossible film series (to this day, he is the only actor outside of Tom Cruise to have appeared in every film in it), Con Air, Dawn of the Dead (2004), and even Lilo & Stitch, among many other roles. Unfortunately, much of his more recent output has consisted of Direct to Video movies. He is also the current spokesman for Arby's in their "We Have the Meats" campaign.
Filmography:
- Casualties of War (1989) — Lt. Reilly
- Jacob's Ladder (1990) — George
- Homicide (1991) — Robert Randolph
- The People Under the Stairs (1991) — Leroy
- Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) — Mr. Stereo
- Pulp Fiction (1994) — Marcellus Wallace
- ER (1994-96) — Walter Robbins
- Mission: Impossible Film Series — Luther Stickell
- Mission: Impossible (1996)
- Mission: Impossible II (2000)
- Mission: Impossible III (2006)
- Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
- Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023)
- Mission: Impossible 8 (2025)
- Striptease (1996) — Shad
- Rosewood (1997) — Mann
- Con Air (1997) — Diamond Dog
- Don King: Only in America (1997) — Don King (Golden Globe Award for Best Actor — Miniseries or Television Film)
- Out of Sight (1998) — Buddy Bragg
- Entrapment (1999) — Aaron Thibadeaux
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999) — Marcus
- Undisputed (2001) — George 'Iceman' Chambers
- Lilo & Stitch franchise — Cobra Bubbles (voice)
- Lilo & Stitch (2002)
- Stitch! The Movie (2003)
- Lilo & Stitch: The Series (2003; cameo as Experiment 300/Spooky disguised as Cobra in "Spooky")
- Leroy & Stitch (2006; cameo)
- RFK (2002) — Judge Jones
- Dark Blue (2002) — Deputy Chief Arthur Holland
- Dawn of the Dead (2004) — Officer Kenneth
- Day of the Dead (2008) — Captain Rhodes
- The Tournament (2009) — Joshua Harlow
- Surrogates (2009) — The Prophet
- Give 'Em Hell, Malone (2009) — Boulder
- Piranha 3D (2010) — Deputy Fallon
- Piranha 3DD (2012)
- Death Race 2 (2010) — Weyland
- Julia X (2011) — The Man
- Zombie Apocalypse — Henry
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) — Charlie-27
- Wendell & Wild (2022) — Buffalo Belzer
- The Garfield Movie (2024)
- The Wild Robot
Tropes relating to Ving Rhames include:
- Scary Black Man: His movie characters can be absolutely hair-raising.
