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Ving Rhames
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Person

Ving Rhames

b. 1959

American actor

Born
12 May 1959 · New York City

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 77 years
  1. 12 May 1959BornBorn in New York City
  2. 1998AwardGolden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1959 – today).

  1. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  2. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  3. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  4. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  6. 1968Prague Spring
  7. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  8. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  9. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  10. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  12. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  13. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  14. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  15. 1985Schengen Agreement
  16. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  17. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  18. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  20. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  21. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  22. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  23. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  24. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  25. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  26. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  27. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  28. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  29. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  30. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  31. 20112011 Norway attacks
  32. 2011Libyan civil war
  33. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  34. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  35. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  36. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  37. 2015Paris Agreement
  38. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  39. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  40. 20212020 Summer Olympics

Biography

Irving Rameses Rhames ( RAYMZ; born May 12, 1959) 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.

His other notable work includes Con Air (1997), Rosewood (1997), Out of Sight (1998), Dawn of the Dead (2004), and voicing Cobra Bubbles in Disney’s Lilo & Stitch (2002). In 1998, he won a Golden Globe for portraying boxing promoter Don King in Don King: Only in America, memorably giving the award to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon. Alongside film and television, Rhames has worked extensively in theater, voice acting, and commercial narration.

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