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Mission: Impossible actor Ving Rhames is on the mend after a recent collapse in Los Angeles.
The 66-year-old star was dining with his family at a restaurant in L.A. on Wednesday, April 29, when he suddenly fainted at the table, according to TMZ. Witnesses reported that Rhames was semi-conscious as paramedics swiftly transported him to a nearby hospital.
A spokesperson for the L.A. City Fire Department confirmed to the outlet that emergency personnel responded to a call involving a man in his 60s around 1:30 p.m. ET on that day before taking him for further medical care.
Rhames’ representative shared with TMZ that they had communicated with the actor, who assured them he was feeling “fine.” The Golden Globe-winning actor speculated he might have been “overheated” and is currently under medical supervision as a safety measure.
Us Weekly has sought additional comments from Rhames’ representative and the L.A. City Fire Department.
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Rhames is probably best known for playing computer hacker Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible movies, alongside Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg as members of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF).
He got his start in acting while training at New York City’s prestigious Juilliard School and delivered his breakout stage performance at the Shakespeare in the Park production of William Shakespeare’s Richard III in 1983.
By the early 1990s, Rhames made the jump to the big screen with appearances in horror hits such as Jacob’s Ladder and The People Under the Stairs. Director Quentin Tarantino cast him in a pivotal role as gangster Marsellus Wallace in 1994’s Pulp Fiction, in which he costarred with John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman.
Rhames followed up Pulp Fiction by playing terrorist Nathan “Diamond Dog” Jones in Nicolas Cage’s 1997 action blockbuster Con Air, which made more than $200 million at the box office. He delivered memorable performances in crime thriller Out of Sight, coming-of-age drama Baby Boy and the horror remake Dawn of the Dead into the early 2000s, in addition to voicing social worker Cobra Bubbles in 2002’s Disney animated classic Lilo & Stitch.
Ving Rhames and his wife Deborah in August 2002. Kevin Winter/Getty Images.
He worked steadily on the small screen, too. Rhames won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television in 1998 for his portrayal of boxing promoter Don King in HBO’s 1997 TV movie Don King: Only in America.
In 2025, Rhames reprised his role as Luther Stickell in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and led the drama Uppercut. Next up for Rhames is the action thriller The Mongoose, in which Liam Neeson will play a war hero who leads authorities on a cross-country chase when he’s accused of a crime he didn’t commit. (The Mongoose does not yet have a release date.)
Away from the screen, Ving shares two children — daughter Reign Beau Rhames, 26, and son Freedom Rhames, 24 — with his second wife, Deborah Reed, whom he married in 2000, and also has another child from a previous relationship. Ving was married to publicist Valerie Scott from 1994 to 1999.