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PULP FICTION actor Ving Rhames is set to play boxer Sonny Liston in a new biopic of the fighter's life. Rhames will portray Liston in PHANTOM PUNCH, so reports The Hollywood Reporter.
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Tom Cruise blasts back into action as IMF agent Ethan Hunt who, with a little help from old friend Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), must take on a deadly new adversary in the shape of Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman)... This third instalment in the
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Ving Rhames has joined the cast of indie feature "Camille" as a small-town sheriff pursuing newlyweds played by Sienna Miller and James Franco. Lensing is set to begin at the end of the month near Niagara Falls.
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Ving Rhames built his early acting career in a local theater. He then landed roles as the hostile general in director Peter Sellars' English tour of Sophocles' "Ajax" and as Hasting Persuivant in the New York Shakespeare Festival's production of "Richard II." He subsequently arrived on television with his first major film role, as a young incarnation of writer James Baldwin's father (played by Paul Winfield), a Baptist preacher trying to break out of the 1920s South, in Stan Lathan-directed autobiographical TV movie Go Tell It On the Mountain (1984, broadcast on PBS after festival screenings).
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Rhames was born in New York City, New York to African-American parents Reatha, a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic.[1] He was named after retired NBC journalist Irving R. Levine[2] and grew up in Harlem, Manhattan. A good student, Ving entered New York's School of Performing Arts, where he discovered his love of acting. After high school he studied drama at SUNY Purchase where he met fellow actor Stanley Tucci, who gave him his nickname "Ving". He later transferred to Juilliard, where he began his career in New York theater.[3]
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