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Ving Rhames

Ving Rhames
Ving Rhames is an award winning actor born in New York in 1959. He started out acting on Broadway in 'The Winter Boys' in 1984 before appearing in various soap operas. He starred in 'ER' for 3 seasons, before being cast alonside Tom Cruise in 'Misson Impossible'.

Staring in movie 'Pulp Fiction' brought him to 'mainstream' attention and he was later awarded an Golden Globe in 1998 for best actor in a TV miniseries for his performance in HBO's Don King: Only in America.

You can find Ving in many movies including: Striptease (1996) Bringing Out The Dead (1999), Mission: Impossible II (2000), American Tragedy (2000), Lilo & Stitch (2002), Dawn Of The Dead (2004) and the Day Of The Dead (2008)




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Ving Rhames - what members say


  • Con Air
  • Con Air review by from Hampshire
    Rated - 4 stars Exhilarates to suspension of disbelief 10 March 2004
    ...the audience and the three outstanding portraits aside from Malkovich come from Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi and Nicolas Cage whose character is a nice contrast and while he...  
  • Mission: Impossible
  • Mission: Impossible review by DJM666 from Walsall, England
    Rated - 3 stars Good action movie 8 May 2006
    ...fects, and has a good cast (including Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Beart, Ving Rhames, Jean Reno, Henry Czerny, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Emilio Esteve...  
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Pulp Fiction review by from LEICESTER
    Rated - 5 stars 22 February 2004
    ...cent Vega (John Travolta) are two bit hitmen that work for a Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) a gangster that has his hands dirty illegal buisness. His wife is Mia Wallace...  

Ving Rhames - filmography


  • Surrogates (2009)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Ving Rhames,  Rosamund Pike
    Director: Jonathan Mostow
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 210 members
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  • A Broken Life on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Tom Sizemore,  Corey Sevier,  Grace Kosaka
    Director: Neil Coombs
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Tom Sizemore (of Saving Private Ryan and Heat) delivers a powerhouse performance as Max Walker, an empty, bitter man who has decided to commit suicide. Instead of a leaving a note, he hires struggling young film student Bud (Corey Sevier) to document the last day of his life. As Bud and his camera ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 22 members
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  • Day Of The Dead on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Mena Suvari,  Nick Cannon,  Ving Rhames
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Nick Cannon, Mena Suvari and Ving Rhames star in this horror film based on the George A. Romero classic zombie film. A mysterious virus has infected the small town of Leadville, Colorado, and the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine and stop the spread of the disease. As people perish, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 4,178 members
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  • Broken Love (2008)
    Starring: Tom Sizemore,  Ving Rhames,  Saul Rubinek
    Director: Neil Coombs
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Beaten and tortured by his own sense of mediocrity, Max (Tom Sizemore) decides to take his life but first acquires the help of his friend bud, a struggling filmmaker, to document his last day on Earth...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Idlewild on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Big Boi,  Andre 3000,  Macy Gray
    Director: Bryan Barber
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,318 member
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  • Animal on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ving Rhames,  Terrence Howard,  Jim Brown
    Director: David J. Burke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Animal is a violent gang member sentenced to prison, leaving his young son to grow up alone on the streets. While in prison, Animal meets an aging black revolutionary who changes the way Animal sees himself and his place in the world. When Animal returns home many years later, now a reformed man, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 6,147 members
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  • Back In The Day on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ja Rule,  Ving Rhames,  Tatyana M. Ali
    Director: James Hunter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Reggie (Ja Rule) finds life kicking him in the teeth when his father suddenly dies in a suspected murder. With a previous life of crime now long behind him, Reggie considers getting back in the game and calling on the talents of his former colleague and ex-jailbird J-Bone (Ving Rhames) to help ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 1,006 member
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  • Sin on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Ving Rhames,  Gregg Henry
    Director: Michael Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gary Oldman plays evil so well. Here he plays a sadistic maniac who has retired cop Eddie Burns (Rhames) hunting for him across Reno. Burns' sister has gone missing and an ingenious and wicked trail is leading him to Oldman. Is this an act of revenge by an old adversary
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 927 members
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  • Bringing Out The Dead on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Patricia Arquette,  John Goodman
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martin Scorsese exhilaratingly adapts Joe Connelly's novel about Frank (Nicolas Cage), a paramedic working among the filth and mental desolation of New York City's Hell's Kitchen in the early 1990s. Lately he has been haunted by the visions of a beautiful 18-year-old girl whom he was unable to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 4,212 members
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  • Doctor Dolittle on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Ossie Davis,  Oliver Platt
    Director: Betty Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Three features. In 'Doctor Dolittle', a remake of the 1967 Richard Fleischer film of the same name, an animal doctor whose patients bark, squeal, and meow finds that he can suddenly understand his patients, which upsets the practice. Eddie Murphy updates the role as a San Francisco doctor who as a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 7,314 members
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  • Body Count (1998)
    Starring: David Caruso,  Linda Fiorentino,  Forest Whitaker
    Director: Robert Patton Spruill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Pike is a man who always seems to get mixed up with the wrong people. After he is released from prison a friend persuades him to do one more hit, this time a no violence raid on an art gallery. Things don't go quite as planned...
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 167 members
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  • Con Air on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  John Cusack,  John Malkovich
    Director: Simon West
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting. And nothing makes him angrier than the passel of psychopathic murderers and rapists aboard his prison ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 28,144 members
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  • Mission: Impossible - HD DVD Version (1996)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Jean Reno,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 299 members
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  • Mission: Impossible on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Jean Reno,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: £2.49
    Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 33,682 members
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  • Striptease on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Armand Assante,  Ving Rhames,  Robert Patrick
    Director: Andrew Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a Miami mom loses her job as a secretary, her lowlife ex-husband is awarded custody of their young daughter. Taking a job as a stripper to raise enough money for a court appeal, she unwittingly attracts the obsessive and insistent attentions of a crazed, slavering U.S. Congressman. Adapted ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,364 member
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  • Mission: Impossible - BLU-RAY Version (1996)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Jean Reno,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,682 member
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  • Dave on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Kevin Kline,  Sigourney Weaver,  Frank Langella
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A presidential look-alike finds himself in the oval office "filling in" for the president who has fallen ill. Lacking the political savvy of the real president, "Dave" proceeds to govern the country with a refreshingly straight-forward approach. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Original) Screenplay.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,288 members
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  • Homicide (1991)
    Starring: William H. Macy,  Joe Mantegna,  Ving Rhames
    Director: David Mamet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A Jewish detective is called out to investigate the murder of an old Jewish woman. But he discovers that there's more than just a murder.....
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 548 members
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Ving Rhames - watch online


  • A Broken Life to Watch Now (2008)
    Starring: Tom Sizemore,  Corey Sevier,  Grace Kosaka
    Director: Neil Coombs
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
    Run time: 97 minutes
    Tom Sizemore (of Saving Private Ryan and Heat) delivers a powerhouse performance as Max Walker, an empty, bitter man who has decided to commit suicide. Instead of a leaving a note, he hires struggling young film student Bud (Corey Sevier) to document the last day of his life. As Bud and his camera ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1 member
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  • Mission Impossible to Watch Now (1996)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Jon Voight,  Emmanuelle Béart
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 110 minutes
    Tom Cruise ignites the screen in this runaway smash hit that "holds you on the edge of your seat before blasting you out of it." (Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times). Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 121 members
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Ving Rhames facts

5 most recent films

Piranha 3D - 1.5 stars
Surrogates - 3.0 stars
Goods, The - Live Hard, Sell Hard - 3.5 stars
Surrogates - BLU-RAY Version - 3 stars
A Broken Life - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Pulp Fiction - BLU-RAY Version - 4.5 stars
Pulp Fiction - 4.0 stars
Con Air - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Mission: Impossible - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Con Air - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Surrogates - BLU-RAY Version - 3 stars
Broken Love - 3 stars
Piranha 3D - 1.5 stars
A Broken Life - 2.0 stars
Goods, The - Live Hard, Sell Hard - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tom Cruise - 10 times - show films
Samuel L. Jackson - 7 times - show films
Bruce Willis - 6 times - show films
Steve Buscemi - 5 times - show films
Christopher Walken - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Brian De Palma - 6 times - show films
Quentin Tarantino - 4 times - show films
Steven Soderbergh - 3 times - show films
John Woo - 3 times - show films
Neil Coombs - 3 times - show films


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