Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series and his supporting role as gang kingpin Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction. He also appeared in Jacob's Ladder (1990), Striptease (1996), Con Air (1997), Out of Sight (1998), Entrapment (1999), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), and Dawn of the Dead (2004). He voiced Cobra Bubbles in the animated film Lilo & Stitch (2002).