Ving Rhames
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.
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
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2025
Uppercut
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2025
The Wild Robot
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2024
The Instigators
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2024
The Garfield Movie
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2024
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
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2023
The Locksmith
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2023
Wendell & Wild
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2022
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
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2018
Con Man
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2018
Father Figures
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2017
The Star
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2017
A Sunday Horse
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2016
Operator
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2015
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
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2015
In Security
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2014
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
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2014
Force of Execution
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2014
Jamesy Boy
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2014
Death Race: Inferno
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2013
Won't Back Down
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2012
Soldiers of Fortune
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2012
7 Below
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2012
Zombie Apocalypse
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2011
Julia X
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2011
The River Murders
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2011
Mafia
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2011
The Wrath of Cain
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2010
Death Race 2
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2010
Piranha 3D
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2010
Operation: Endgame
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2010
Surrogates
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2009
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
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2009
The Tournament
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2009
Echelon Conspiracy
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2009
Evil Angel
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2009
Give 'em Hell, Malone
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2009
Saving God
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2008
Day of the Dead
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2008
A Broken Life
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2007
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
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2007
Idlewild
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2006
Aquaman
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2006
Leroy & Stitch
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2006
Mission: Impossible III
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2006
Back in the Day
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2005
Animal
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2005
The Lost Tape: Andy's Terrifying Last Days Revealed
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2004
The Story Room: The Making of 'Lilo & Stitch'
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2004
Dawn of the Dead
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2004
Stitch! The Movie
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2003
Beef
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2003
Sin
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2003
Dark Blue
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2002
RFK
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2002
Undisputed
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2002
Lilo & Stitch
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2002
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
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2001
Baby Boy
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2001
Holiday Heart
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2000
Mission: Impossible II
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2000
Bringing Out the Dead
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1999
Entrapment
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1999
Out of Sight
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1998
Body Count
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1998
Don King: Only in America
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1997
Con Air
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1997
Rosewood
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1997
Striptease
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1996
Mission: Impossible
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1996
Kiss of Death
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1995
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning
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1995
Drop Squad
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1994
Pulp Fiction
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1994
Dave
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1993
Bound by Honor
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1993
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
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1992
The People Under the Stairs
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1991
Homicide
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1991
Flight of the Intruder
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1991
The Long Walk Home
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1990
Jacob's Ladder
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1990
When You Remember Me
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1990
Rising Son
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1990
Casualties of War
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1989
Patty Hearst
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1988
Native Son
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1986
Go Tell It on the Mountain
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1984
Painter
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