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.

Williams. Career
Rhames first appeared on Broadway in the play The Boys of Winter in 1984. "
Rhames appeared in Striptease (1996) as the wisecracking bodyguard Shad Bringing Out the Dead (1999) then reprised his Luther Stickell role for Mission: Impossible II (2000).

Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames (born May 12 1959) is an American actor best known for his work in Bringing Out the Dead Pulp Fiction Baby Boy Don King: Only in America Dawn of the Dead Con Air Piranha 3D and Piranha 3DD the Mission: Impossible film series and the 2012 SyFy movie Zombie Apocalypse.