Irving Rameses Rhames is an American actor. He is known for his supporting roles as IMF Agent Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series and gang kingpin Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction.
Ving Rhames Parents: Meet Reather Rhames and Ernest Rhames
He was born to Reather Rhames, who was a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, who worked as an auto mechanic. His parents named him after NBC journalist Irving R. Levine. Ving attended the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan. After graduating from High School in 1978, he enrolled at the State University of New York at Purchase (also called SUNY Purchase), where a classmate named Stanley Tucci gave him the nickname “Ving.”
Later, he went to Juilliard and joined the Drama Division. In 1983, he got his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. His brother is Junior Rhames.
He is known as Ving Rhames on many social media sites and in the entertainment industry. Ving was born on May 12, 1959, in Harlem, New York, United States of America, under the zodiac sign Taurus, with the nationality of American and of black descent.