At the 1998 Golden Globe Awards people were shocked when VING RHAMES bestowed his newly won trophy to follow nominee Jack Lemmon. Those who really knew Rhames were not surprised at all. Rhames has an imposing physical presence, but he is remarkably sensitive and kind, your typical "friendly giant." Despite this he was able to pull off villainous turns in Pulp Fiction and Con Air with such aplomb.
Two years after graduating from the renowned Julliard School of Drama, he made his Broadway debut opposite Matt Dillon in The Winter Boys, after which he worked on a variety of off-Broadway productions. He also worked in television sometimes, with recurring roles on daytime soaps Another World and Guiding Light and guest appearances on shows like Miami Vice.
In the early 1990s Rhames garnered roles in films like Casualties of War, Jacob's Ladder and Mission: Impossible, which helped to increase his profile. It wasn't until 1994 that Ving Rhames would explode onto the Hollywood scene after the release of Quentin Taratino's Pulp Fiction, which launched his career.
Since then Rhames has done Striptease with Demi Moore, Out of Sight with George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, Entrapment with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Mission: Impossible II with Tom Cruise.
Rhames also won a ShoWest Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Matin Scorcese's Bring Out The Dead.
Singleton and Rhames are not strangers, as they have worked together on Rosewood, another of Singleton's films. The film was a historically inspired drama about a race riot in t he south in the early 1920's. Rhames stars as Mann, a drifter who aids the surviving African-Americans escape the town, with the help of a humble storeowner played by Jon Voight.
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