Ving Rhames

Irving Rameses Rhames (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; born May 12, 1959) 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 (1991), and as Marsellus Wallace in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994). Rhames achieved further recognition as Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series, appearing in all eight installments.

His other notable work includes Con Air (1997), Rosewood (1997), Out of Sight (1998), Dawn of the Dead (2004), and voicing Cobra Bubbles in Disney’s Lilo & Stitch (2002). In 1998, he 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. Alongside film and television, Rhames has worked extensively in theater, voice acting, and commercial narration.

Early life and education

Rhames was born and raised in Harlem, New York City, the son of Reather, a religious stay-at-home mom raising him and his brother Junior, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic whose parents were South Carolina sharecroppers.<ref name="WPreel" /><ref name="PBse">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="NYPkojak">Template:Cite web</ref> He was named "Irving" after NBC journalist Irving R. Levine.<ref>Newsmakers – Newsweek Entertainment – MSNBC.com</ref>

Unlike many of his childhood friends, Rhames neither took drugs nor succumbed to easy street money, but rather played football for Covent Avenue Baptist Church in the Hamilton Heights Historic District.<ref name="WPreel" /> One of Rhames' junior high school teachers praised his poetry reading.<ref name="WPreel" /> On a whim, he applied to New York's High School of Performing Arts, where he developed his love of acting.<ref name="WPreel" /> After high school, he studied drama at SUNY Purchase, where fellow acting student Stanley Tucci gave him his nickname "Ving". Rhames later transferred to the Juilliard School's Drama Division (Group 12: 1979–1983)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1983, and began acting in Shakespeare in the Park the following Monday.<ref name="WPreel" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Career

Stage

Rhames' training in the classics gained him roles as early as 1983 at Shakespeare in the Park in Richard III. He has also appeared in the classics Richard II, and Sophocles' play Ajax,<ref name="WPreel" /> as well as off-Broadway productions such as Map of the World and Ascension Day, and regionally in plays by Henrik Ibsen and Molière.<ref name="CBbio">Template:Cite book</ref>

Rhames played the role of amateur boxer Omar in the Second Stage Theater 1984-85 revival of Miguel Piñero's 1974 prison drama Short Eyes directed by Kevin Conway, alongside Paul Calderon and Laurence Fishburne, among others.<ref name="PBse" /><ref name="2Seyes">Template:Cite web</ref>

On Broadway appeared in John Pielmeier's play The Boys of Winter directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in December 1985 at the Biltmore Theatre.<ref name="IBDBbio">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="BWbio">Template:Cite web</ref>

In an interview, Rhames commented about screen versus stage roles, "I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me," and "I can always do theater, I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Molière, Othello, I can do Richard III."<ref name="WPreel" />

Screen

1985–1989: Early television and film appearances

Rhames' screen debut came in January 1985 in the role of Young Gabriel on the PBS anthology series American Playhouse in the television film Go Tell It on the Mountain, which was followed by small roles in television and film.<ref name="WPreel" /><ref name="EMson" /> Rhames' theatrical film debut came next in 1986 as Jack in Native Son, based on the 1940 novel by Richard Wright.<ref name="EMson">Template:Cite journal</ref>

Other 80s film appearances include roles in Paul Schrader's biographical crime drama Patty Hearst (1988) as Donald "Cinque Mtume" DeFreeze, and as Lieutenant Reilly in Brian De Palma's drama Casualties of War (1989).<ref name="WPreel" />

On television, Rhames had two guest appearances on Miami Vice; as Georges in "The Maze" (February 1985), and as Walker Monroe in "Child's Play" (1987).<ref name="ATV">Template:Cite web</ref> In 1986 he 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 rat, and must therefore be defended by Stephen Lang's character, David Abrams.<ref name="MMcr">Template:Cite book</ref> He played Czaja Carnek on the soap opera Another World for several episodes in 1986.<ref name="PPLaw">Template:Cite book</ref> He played SP4 Tucker in the Tour of Duty episode "Burn Baby, Burn" (1987).<ref name="Viet24">Template:Cite book</ref> Rhames played Henry Brown on Spenser: For Hire in the episode "McAllister" (1988).<ref name="PLEXsfh">Template:Cite web</ref>

1990–1999: Breakout roles

During the 1990s, Rhames' theatrical film appearances included George in Adrian Lyne's psychological horror Jacob's Ladder (1990), and Wes Craven's comedy horror film The People Under the Stairs (1991) as Leroy. Also in 1991, he played Frank McRae, the master chief petty officer in John Milius' Vietnam war film Flight of the Intruder.<ref name="Viet24" /> As Secret Service agent Duane Stevensen, he watched over Kevin Kline's character in the political comedy film Dave (1993). He played street hustler "Little Leroy" in Tim Hunter's drama The Saint of Fort Washington (1993).<ref name="WPreel" />

One of Rhames' breakout roles includes Marsellus Wallace which came in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 crime film Pulp Fiction.<ref name="EMson" /> Another breakout, and recurring, role came in 1996 as ace computer hacker Luther Stickell opposite Tom Cruise in Brian De Palma's film adaptation, Mission: Impossible.<ref name="EMson" /> Due to its success, Rhames reprises the character in subsequent films. In 1997, Rhames portrayed the character of Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones in the popular film Con Air.

Other film roles during the 90s include FBI Agent Omar in Kiss of Death (1995), the wisecracking bouncer/bodyguard Shad in Striptease (1996), and a starring role as West African drug dealer Muki in the action thriller Dangerous Ground (1997) with Ice Cube and Elizabeth Hurley. In John Singleton's 1997 historical drama Rosewood, Rhames played Mann, a veteran of WWI who is now a drifter falsely accused of assault by a white woman, eliciting a lynch mob. Although Rhames' character is fictional, Rosewood is based on a true story of the 1923 Rosewood massacre.<ref name="WPreel" /> In 1998, he played Pike in the crime thriller Body Count,<ref name="WPreel" /> and Buddy Bragg in the action comedy Out of Sight. He played Jesus-praising paramedic Marcus in the drama film Bringing Out the Dead (1999) directed by Martin Scorsese.

On television, Rhames played Dr. Peter Benton's brother-in-law on the medical drama ER, a recurring role he filled for three seasons from 1994 to 1996. Rhames won a Golden Globe in 1998 for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film in HBO's Don King: Only in America (1997).<ref name="EMson" /> At the ceremony he gave his award to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon, saying, "I feel that being an artist is about giving, and I'd like to give this to you." Lemmon was clearly touched by the gesture as was the celebrity audience who gave Lemmon a standing ovation. Lemmon, who tried unsuccessfully to give the award back to Rhames, said it was "one of the nicest, sweetest moments I've ever known in my life." The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced later that they would have a duplicate award prepared for Rhames. That moment was #98 on E!'s 101 Awesome Moments in Entertainment.<ref name="google6">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="nytimes1">Template:Cite web</ref> The New York Times lauded Rhames for the act, writing that in doing so he "demonstrated his capacity for abundant generosity".<ref name="nytimes1"/>

2000 to the present

Rhames reprises his role as Luther Stickell beginning in Mission: Impossible 2 (2000). He co-starred in Mission: Impossible III (2006), had a cameo appearance in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), and played a major role in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025), the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth installments in the Mission Impossible film series, respectively.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He is the only actor besides Tom Cruise to appear in all eight Mission: Impossible films.

Other theatrical film roles include Johnnie Cochran in American Tragedy (2000), and the ex-con boyfriend of Jody's mother in the John Singleton film Baby Boy (2001). He contributed his voice for the character of Cobra Bubbles in the Walt Disney animated feature film Lilo & Stitch (2002) and the subsequent television series. Rhames played police Sergeant Kenneth Hall, a stoic cop and former Marine, fighting zombie hordes in the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead. He played a different character, military Captain Kenneth Rhodes, in the 2008 remake of Day of the Dead. Rhames played a gay (and possibly also homicidal) firefighter who comes out of the closet in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007). In the 2008 film Saving God, he played an ex-con who is released from prison a changed man, looking to take over his father's former church congregation in a deteriorating neighborhood. Rhames stars in Phantom Punch (2008), a biopic of boxer Sonny Liston, released directly to DVD, as well as the British independent action/thriller film The Tournament (2009), portraying a fighter out to win a no-rules tournament.

On television Rhames portrayed a gay drag queen in the television film Holiday Heart (2000). He played John Morgan in Hallmark Hall of Fame's film Little John (2002).<ref name="EMson" /> In March 2005, Rhames played the lead role on a new Kojak series, on the USA Network cable channel (and on ITV4 in the UK). The bald head, lollipops, and "Who loves ya, baby?" catchphrase remained intact, but little else remained from the Telly Savalas-starring original. It was announced that he would have a role in the 2006 Aquaman-based show Mercy Reef; however, due to the integration of The WB and UPN for the new network, CW, Mercy Reef was not picked up. He narrated the BET television series American Gangster (2006–2009).

Other works

Rhames makes an appearance in Ludacris's song "Southern Gangstas" on his 2008 album Theater of the Mind. Rappers Playaz Circle and Rick Ross are also featured on the track.

Rhames voiced the part of Tobias Jones in the video game Driver 3 (2004).

He filmed The Red Canvas (2009) with Ernie Reyes Jr., UFC lightweight contender Gray Maynard, and Randy Couture. In 2010, he filed a lawsuit against the film's producer,<ref name="autogenerated1">Ving Rhames to Producer: Do I Look Like a Bitch? Template:Webarchive. TMZ.com. Retrieved on August 28, 2010.</ref> claiming that he had only been paid $175,000 of a $200,000 contract.

Since 2014, Rhames has provided the narration for numerous Arby's commercials, with the slogan "Arby's: We have the meats!"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2015, he filmed a series of commercials for The ADT Corporation.Template:Citation needed Rhames has also appeared in a series of television commercials for RadioShack, usually performing with Vanessa L. Williams.

Rhames is one of the narrators for UFC.

Rhames narrated the team introductions for the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI in February 2017.Template:Citation needed

Personal life

Rhames is a Christian.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1994 he married Valerie Scott, a former movie publicist.<ref name="WPreel">Template:Cite news</ref> He has since divorced, and has been married to Deborah Reed since 2000.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Filmography

Key

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Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Abbr
1986	Native Son	Jack	Theatrical film debut	<ref name="EMson" />
1988	Patty Hearst	Cinque Mtume		<ref name="WPreel" /><ref name="ATV" />
1989	Casualties of War	Lieutenant Reilly		<ref name="WPreel" /><ref name="ATV" />
1990	The Long Walk Home	Herbert Cotter		<ref name="ATV" />
	Jacob's Ladder	George		<ref name="WPreel" /><ref name="ATV" />
1991	Flight of the Intruder	Chief Petty Officer Frank McRae		<ref name="Viet24" /><ref name="ATV" />
	Homicide	Robert Randolph
	The People Under the Stairs	Leroy		<ref name="ATV" />
1992	Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot	"Mr. Stereo"
1993	Blood In Blood Out	Ivan
	Dave	Duane Stevenson		<ref name="ATV" />
	The Saint of Fort Washington	Leroy "Little Leroy"		<ref name="WPreel" /><ref name="ATV" />
1994	Pulp Fiction	Marsellus Wallace		<ref name="ATV" />
	Drop Squad	Garvey
1995	Kiss of Death	FBI Agent Omar		<ref name="WPreel" />
1996	Mission: Impossible	Luther Stickell		<ref name="ATV" />
	Striptease	"Shad"		<ref name="ATV" />
1997	Dangerous Ground	Muki		<ref name="WPreel" />
	Rosewood	Mann		<ref name="WPreel" /><ref name="ATV" />
	Con Air	Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones		<ref name="ATV" />
1998	Body Count	Pike		<ref name="WPreel" />
	Out of Sight	Buddy Bragg		<ref name="ATV" />
1999	Entrapment	FBI Agent Aaron Thibadeaux		<ref name="ATV" />
	Bringing Out the Dead	Marcus		<ref name="ATV" />
2000	Mission: Impossible 2	Luther Stickell		<ref name="ATV" />
2001	Baby Boy	Melvin		<ref name="ATV" />
	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	Ryan Whittaker		<ref name="btva2">Template:Cite web A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.</ref><ref name="ATV" />
2002	Undisputed	George "The Iceman" Chambers		<ref name="ATV" />
	Lilo & Stitch	Cobra Bubbles (voice)		<ref name="btva2" /><ref name="ATV" />
	Dark Blue	Deputy Chief Arthur Holland		<ref name="ATV" />
2003	Stitch! The Movie	Cobra Bubbles (voice)	Direct-to-video	<ref name="btva2" />
	Sin	Eddie Burns
2004	Dawn of the Dead	Sergeant Kenneth Hall		<ref name="ATV" />
2005	Back in the Day	Joe "J-Bone" Brown		<ref name="ATV" />
	Animal	James "Animal" Allen	Video	<ref name="ATV" />
	Shooting Gallery	Carl "Cue Ball Carl" Bridgers	Video	<ref name="ATV" />
2006	Mission: Impossible III	Luther Stickell		<ref name="ATV" />
	Leroy & Stitch	Cobra Bubbles (voice)	Direct-to-video	<ref name="ATV" />
	Idlewild	"Spats"		<ref name="ATV" />
2007	Ascension Day	Hark	Video
	I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry	Fred G. Duncan		<ref name="ATV" />
	A Broken Life	Vet		<ref name="ATV" />
2008	Animal 2	James "Animal" Allen		<ref name="ATV" />
	Day of the Dead	Captain Kenneth Rhodes	Video	<ref name="ATV" />
	Phantom Punch	Sonny Liston		<ref name="ATV" />
	Saving God	Armstrong Cane
2009	Echelon Conspiracy	FBI Agent Dave Grant
	Give 'Em Hell, Malone	"Boulder"		<ref name="ATV" />
	The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard	"Jibby" Newsome		<ref name="ATV" />
	The Bridge to Nowhere	Nate		<ref name="ATV" />
	The Tournament	Joshua Harlow		<ref name="ATV" />
	Surrogates	The Prophet
	Evil Angel	Detective Carruthers
2010	Master Harold...and the Boys	Sam		<ref name="ATV" />
	Love Chronicles: Secrets Revealed	Mike	Video	<ref name="ATV" />
	Operation: Endgame	"Judgement"		<ref name="ATV" />
	Piranha 3D	Deputy Fallon		<ref name="ATV" />
	King of the Avenue	Norman De'Sha		<ref name="ATV" />
	The Wrath of Cain	Miles "Cain" Skinner		<ref name="ATV" />
	Red Canvas	Gene
	Death Race 2	R. H. Weyland	Video	<ref name="ATV" />
2011	The River Murders	Captain Art Langley		<ref name="ATV" />
	Pimp Bullies	Miguel		<ref name="ATV" />
	Julia X	The Man		<ref name="ATV" />
	Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol	Luther Stickell	Uncredited cameo
2012	Seven Below	Jack		<ref name="ATV" />
	Piranha 3DD	Deputy Fallon		<ref name="ATV" />
	Soldiers of Fortune	Grimaud "Grim Reaper" Tourneur		<ref name="ATV" />
	Money Fight	Gene		<ref name="ATV" />
	Art of Submission	Gene
	Won't Back Down	Principal Thompson		<ref name="ATV" />
	Mafia	Renzo Wes		<ref name="ATV" />
	Btd	Ken	Short
2013	Death Race 3: Inferno	R. H. Weyland	Video	<ref name="ATV" />
	Armed Response	Officer Hall		<ref name="ATV" />
	Force of Execution	"Ice Man"	Video	<ref name="ATV" />
2014	Jamesy Boy	Conrad		<ref name="ATV" />
2015	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation	Luther Stickell		<ref name="ATV" />
	Operator	Richard		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ATV" />
2016	A Sunday Horse	Mr. Valentine		<ref name="ATV" />
2017	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Charlie-27		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	The Star	Thaddeus (voice)		<ref name="btva2" /><ref name="ATV" />
	Father Figures	Rod Hamilton		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ATV" />
2018	Con Man	"Peanut"		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ATV" />
	Mission: Impossible – Fallout	Luther Stickell		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ATV" />
2022	Wendell & Wild	Buffalo Belzer (voice)		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2023	The Locksmith	Frank		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One	Luther Stickell		<ref name="ATV" />
2024	The Garfield Movie	Otto (voice)		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="btva2" /><ref name="ATV" />
	The Instigators	Frank Toomey		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ATV" />
	The Wild Robot	Thunderbolt (voice)		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="btva2" /><ref name="ATV" />
2025	Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning	Luther Stickell		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Uppercut	Elliott Duffond		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ATV" />
TBA	The Mongoose Template:Dagger	Tanker	Filming	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Abbr
1985	Go Tell It on the Mountain	Young Gabriel Grimes	Television film. PBS American Playhouse (aired 1/14/1985) (screen debut)	<ref name="WPreel" /><ref name="EMson" />
1985	Miami Vice	Georges	Episode: "The Maze"	<ref name="ATV" />
1986	Another World	Czaja Carnek	Regular cast (8 episodes)	<ref name="PPLaw" />
	Crime Story	Hector Lincoln	Episode: "Abrams for the Defense"	<ref name="MMcr" />
1987	Miami Vice	Walker Monroe	Episode: "Child's Play"	<ref name="ATV" />
	Tour of Duty	SP4 Tucker	Episode: "Burn Baby, Burn"	<ref name="Viet24" />
1988	Spenser: For Hire	Henry Brown	Episode: "McAllister"	<ref name="PLEXsfh" />
1989	Men	Charlie Hazard	Main cast
	The Equalizer	Luther Paxton	Episode: "Suicide Squad"
1990	Rising Son	Ed	Television film
	When You Remember Me	Leon	Television film
1991	ScreenPlay	Sergeant Blue	Episode: "Murder in Oakland"
	Iran: Days of Crisis	Charles Jones	Television film
1992	Terror on Track 9	"Jellyroll"	Television film
1994	Philly Heat	DeWitt Wardlaw	TV series
1994–1996	ER	Walter Robbins	Recurring cast (season 1–3)	<ref name="WPreel" /><ref name="ATV" />
1995	Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning	Detective Artie Brown	Television film
	New York Undercover	Max Villareal	Episode: "Olde Thyme Religion"	<ref name="ATV" />
	Deadly Whispers	Detective Jackson	Television film	<ref name="ATV" />
1997	Don King: Only in America	Don King	Television film	<ref name="EMson" />
2000	American Tragedy	Johnnie Cochran	Television film
	Holiday Heart	"Holiday" Heart	Television film	<ref name="ATV" />
2001	UC: Undercover	Quito Real	Recurring cast
2002	Sins of the Father	Garrick Jones	Television film
	Little John	John Morgan	Television film. Hallmark Hall of Fame	<ref name="EMson" /><ref name="ATV" />
	RFK	Judge Thomas R. Jones	Television film
	The Proud Family	Garrett Krebs (voice)	Episode: "A Hero for Halloween"
2002–2003	The District	Attorney General Troy Hatcher	Recurring cast (season 3)
2003	Lilo & Stitch: The Series	Cobra BubblesTemplate:Efn (voice)	Episode: "Spooky"	<ref name="ATV" />
	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius	Chief (voice)	Episode: "Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion"
	The System	Andre Charles	Main cast
	Freedom: A History of US	Various Roles	TV documentary series
2005	Kojak	Lieutenant Theo Kojak	Main cast
2006	Aquaman	McCaffery	Television film	<ref name="ATV" />
2007	Football Wives	Frank Wallingford	Television film
2010	Gravity	"Dogg" McFee	Main cast	<ref name="ATV" />
2011	Zombie Apocalypse	Henry Everlen	Television film	<ref name="ATV" />
	Black Jack	Jack "Black Jack"	Television film
2013	Monday Mornings	Dr. Jorge Villanueva	Main cast	<ref name="ATV" />
2014	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	Cecil Price	Television film	<ref name="ATV" />
2018	Cagney and Lacey	Captain Stark	Television film
2019	Voice Arts Awards	Himself - Icon Award	Television special
2023	Legacy	Guy Simmons	Television miniseries. BET+	<ref name="ATV" />
2025	Dope Thief	Bart	Television miniseries	<ref name="ATV" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Video games

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Abbr
2003	Mission: Impossible – Operation Surma	IMF Agent Luther Stickell		<ref name="btva2" />
2004	Driver 3	Tobias Jones		<ref name="btva2" />
2017	Call of Duty: WWII	Jefferson Potts

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
1998	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actor in Mini-Series or Motion Picture	Don King: Only in America	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Best Actor in Mini-Series or Movie	Don King: Only in America	Template:Nom
	Acalpulco Black Film Festival	Best Actor	Rosewood	Template:Nom
	Image Awards	Outstanding Actor in Motion Picture	Rosewood	Template:Nom
		Outstanding Actor in Television or Mini-Series	Don King: Only in America	Template:Nom
	Satellite Awards	Best Actor - Mini-Series or TV Film	Don King: Only in America	Template:Nom
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Best Actor - Mini-Series or TV Film	Don King: Only in America	Template:Nom
2000	Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Action	Entrapment	Template:Nom
	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Comedy or Music	Bringing Out the Dead	Template:Nom
	ShoWest Convention	Best Supporting Actor		Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2001	Black Reel Awards	Best Actor - Network	Holiday Heart	Template:Nom
	Image Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture	Mission: Impossible 2	Template:Nom
	Locarno International Film Festival	Special Mention	Baby Boy	Template:Won
2002	Black Reel Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Baby Boy	Template:Nom
	Image Awards	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	UC: Undercover	Template:Nom
		Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture	Baby Boy	Template:Nom
2003	Black Reel Awards	Best Actor - Mini-Series	Sins of the Father	Template:Nom
	Image Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Comedy	The Proud Family	Template:Nom
		Best Actor - Mini-Series or TV Film	Sins of the Father	Template:Nom
2004	Black Reel Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Dark Blue	Template:Nom
2006	Black Reel Awards	Best Actor - Television	Kojak	Template:Nom
2015	Black Reel Awards	Best Actor - Television	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	Template:Nom
	Image Awards	Best Actor - Television		Template:Nom

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