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[[Film/PulpFiction What does Ving Rhames]] [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere look like?]]

Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames was born May 12, 1959 in [[BigApplesauce 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 Opera}}s and supporting roles until his big break as crime boss Marcellus Wallace in ''Film/PulpFiction''.

He has since worked in the ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries Mission: Impossible]]'' film series (to this day, he is the only actor outside of Creator/TomCruise to have appeared in every film in it), ''Film/ConAir'', ''Film/{{Dawn of the Dead|2004}}'' (2004), and even ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', among many other roles. Unfortunately, much of his more recent output has consisted of DirectToVideo movies. He is also the current spokesman for UsefulNotes/{{Arbys}} in their "We Have the Meats" campaign.
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!!Filmography:
* ''Film/CasualtiesOfWar'' (1989) -- Lt. Reilly
* ''Film/JacobsLadder'' (1990) -- George
* ''Film/{{Homicide|1991}}'' (1991) -- Robert Randolph
* ''Film/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs'' (1991) -- Leroy
* ''Film/StopOrMyMomWillShoot'' (1992) -- Mr. Stereo
* ''Film/PulpFiction'' (1994) -- Marcellus Wallace
* ''Series/{{ER}}'' (1994-96) -- Walter Robbins
* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'' -- Luther Stickell
** ''[[Film/MissionImpossible1996 Mission: Impossible]]'' (1996)
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' (2000)
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' (2006)
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' (2011)
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' (2015)
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' (2018)
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoning'' (2023)
** ''Mission: Impossible 8'' (2025)
* ''Film/{{Striptease}}'' (1996) -- Shad
* ''Film/{{Rosewood|1997}}'' (1997) -- Mann
* ''Film/ConAir'' (1997) -- Diamond Dog
* ''Don King: Only in America'' (1997) -- Don King (Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Miniseries or Television Film)
* ''Film/OutOfSight'' (1998) -- Buddy Bragg
* ''Film/{{Entrapment}}'' (1999) -- Aaron Thibadeaux
* ''Film/BringingOutTheDead'' (1999) -- Marcus
* ''Film/{{Undisputed}}'' (2001) -- George 'Iceman' Chambers
* ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise -- Cobra Bubbles (voice)
** ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' (2002)
** ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie'' (2003)
** ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' (2003; cameo as Experiment 300/Spooky disguised as Cobra in "[[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS1E5Spooky Spooky]]")
** ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'' (2006; cameo)
* ''Film/{{RFK}}'' (2002) -- Judge Jones
* ''Film/DarkBlue'' (2002) -- Deputy Chief Arthur Holland
* ''Film/{{Dawn of the Dead|2004}}'' (2004) -- Officer Kenneth
* ''Film/{{Day of the Dead|2008}}'' (2008) -- Captain Rhodes
* ''Film/TheTournament'' (2009) -- Joshua Harlow
* ''Film/{{Surrogates}}'' (2009) -- The Prophet
* ''Film/GiveEmHellMalone'' (2009) -- Boulder
* ''Film/Piranha3D'' (2010) -- Deputy Fallon
** ''Film/Piranha3DD'' (2012)
* ''Film/DeathRace 2'' (2010) -- Weyland
* ''Film/JuliaX'' (2011) -- The Man
* ''Film/ZombieApocalypse'' -- Henry
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' (2017) -- Charlie-27
* ''WesternAnimation/WendellAndWild'' (2022) -- Buffalo Belzer
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldMovie'' (2024)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Wild Robot|2024}}''
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!! Tropes relating to Ving Rhames include:
* ScaryBlackMan: His movie characters can be absolutely hair-raising.
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->''[[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch "We're getting off the subject."]]''
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