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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 (1…
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Born 12 May 1959 · Q310315
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the atrocity of Americans upon Americans. It has been broadened to be a story about the forces of good versus the forces of evil. This could have been the British versus the Americans. This could have been white on white. The tragedy is not so much racially specific as it is spiritual.
With each take of that scene in which I yelled, `I
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“the atrocity of Americans upon Americans. It has been broadened to be a story about the forces of good versus the forces of evil. This could have been the British versus the Americans. This could have been white on white. The tragedy is not so much racially specific as it is spiritual.”
“With each take of that scene in which I yelled, `I”
“the complexities of the character, the intricacies of the character, the fact that he”
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Filmed a series of commercials for The ADT Corporation
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Filed a lawsuit against the film's producer, claiming that he had only been paid $175,000 of a $200,000 contract
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for Don King: Only in America (1998).
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Played Pike in the crime thriller Body Count, and Buddy Bragg in the action comedy Out of Sight
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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
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For Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film in HBO's Don King: Only in America (1997)
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Rhames portrayed the character of Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones in the popular film Con Air
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As ace computer hacker Luther Stickell opposite Tom Cruise in Brian De Palma's film adaptation, Mission: Impossible
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Married Valerie Scott, a former movie publicist
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Played Frank McRae, the master chief petty officer in John Milius' Vietnam war film Flight of the Intruder
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As Jack in Native Son, based on the 1940 novel by Richard Wright
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Appeared on another Michael Mann show, Crime Story in the 1986 episode, "Abrams for the Defense" in which he portrayed Hector Lincoln, a poor Chicago tenant who assaults his landlord after Hector's son is bitten by a
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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)
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And began acting in Shakespeare in the Park the following Monday
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Born 1959-05-12.
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