Ving Rhames Net Worth, Bio, Wiki, Age, Height & Weight

Early Life

Early Life: Ving Rhames was born Irving Rameses Rhames on May 12, 1959, in Harlem, New York. His mother, Reather, was a homemaker, and his father, Ernest, worked as an auto mechanic. Ving attended the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan, and after graduating in 1978, he enrolled at the State University of New York at Purchase (also known as SUNY Purchase), where classmate Stanley Tucci gave him the moniker “Ving.” Rhames transferred to Juilliard, joining the Drama Division and earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1983.

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Net Worth of Ving Rhames

Ving Rhames Net Worth and Salary: Ving Rhames is an American actor who has a net worth of $25 million dollars. Rhames is best known for playing Marsellus Wallace in “Pulp Fiction” (1994) and Luther Stickell in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise (1996-present). Ving made his big screen debut in 1984’s “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” and he has gone on to appear in more than 130 film and television projects, such as “Jacob’s Ladder” (1990), “Entrapment” (1999), and “Don King: Only in America” (1997), which earned him a Golden Globe (that he famously gave to Jack Lemmon). He has appeared on several TV series, including “ER” (1994–1996), “The District” (2002–2003), “Kojak” (2005), “Gravity” (2010), and “Monday Mornings” (2013). Rhames is also known as the voice of “Cobra Bubbles” in Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” (2002) and “Lilo & Stitch: The Series” (2003), and he has lent his voice to the video games “Mission: Impossible – Operation Surma” (2003), “Driver 3” (2004), and “Call of Duty: WWII” (2017).

Ving Rhames Quotes

How is it that Ving Rhames has a net worth of $25 Million? These quotes by the actor may indicate the character traits that led to his financial situation:

I'm a God-fearing man, and I know the only reason why I am here going from poverty to where I am now is God has His hand on my life. I tell people, 'I didn't choose acting; God chose me to act.'

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Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, 'I did not choose acting; acting chose me.' I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football.

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For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

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I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'

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In about 9th grade, an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school, so I did on a whim. I got accepted. Then I got accepted at the Julliard School, and by then, I was serious about it.

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