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person_profile-Wesley Snipes

Wesley Snipes Age: 62

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Wesley Snipes

Date of Birth:

Jul 31, 1962

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Wesley Snipes

    Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, film producer, and martial artist. He has starred in numerous action-adventures, thrillers, and dramatic feature films and is well-known for his role as Blade in the Blade trilogy. Snipes formed a production company titled Amen-Ra Films in 1991 and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. Snipes has been training in martial arts since age twelve, earning a high ranking 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd dan black belt in Hapkido. He has also trained as a student of Capoeira under Mestre Jelon Vieira and in a number of other disciplines including various styles of kung fu. At age 23, Snipes was discovered by an agent while performing in a competition. He made his film debut in the 1986 Goldie Hawn vehicle Wildcats. Later that year, he appeared on the trendy 1980's TV show Miami Vice as a drug-dealing pimp in the episode 'Streetwise' (first aired December 5, 1986). In 1987, he appeared as Michael Jackson's nemesis in the Martin Scorsese-directed music video "Bad" (he is seen in only the long version of the video) and the feature film Streets of Gold. That same year, Snipes was also considered for the role of Geordi La Forge in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Snipes' performance in the music video "Bad" caught the eye of director Spike Lee. Snipes turned down a small role in Lee's Do the Right Thing for the larger part of Willie Mays Hayes in Major League, beginning a succession of box-office hits for Snipes. Lee would later cast Snipes as the jazz saxophonist Shadow Henderson in Mo' Better Blues and as the lead in the interracial romantic drama Jungle Fever. Another important role for Snipes was the powerful drug lord Nino Brown in New Jack City, which was written specifically for him by Barry Michael Cooper. Another film in which his character was involved in drugs was the somber movie Sugar Hill. Although Snipes is more known for his roles in action films like Passenger 57, Demolition Man (with Sylvester Stallone), Money Train, U.S. Marshals (a sequel of The Fugitive) and Rising Sun (with Sean Connery), he has also had success in comedies like White Men Can't Jump, and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar where he played a drag queen together with Patrick Swayze and John Leguizamo. Snipes has also been critically acclaimed for his roles in dramas like The Waterdance and Disappearing Acts. Snipes has been married twice; first, to April Snipes from 1985-1990 with whom he has a son, Jelani Asar Snipes, born in 1988. Jelani had a cameo role in Snipes' 1990 film Mo' Better Blues. In 2003, Snipes wed painter Nakyung 'Nikki' Park, who is the mother of his four youngest children: son Akhenaten Kihwa-T Snipes; daughter Iset Jua-T Snipes (born July 31, 2001); son Alaafia Jehu-T Snipes (born May 26, 2004); and son Alimayu Moa-T Snipes (born March 26, 2007). Snipes spends a lot of time in Park's home country of South Korea, which he calls his "second home."  

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Filmography of

Wesley Snipes

Found 69 Movies in total

... 2024

Deadpool & Wolverine

Eric Brooks/Blade ( Actor )

... 2024

Back on the Strip

Luther 'Mr. Big' ( Actor )

Producer

... 2023

Coming 2 America

General Izzi ( Actor )

... 2021

Cut Throat City

Lawrence ( Actor )

... 2020

Dolemite Is My Name

D’Urville Martin ( Actor )

... 2019

Armed Response

Isaac ( Actor )

Producer

... 2017

The Recall

The Hunter ( Actor )

Producer

... 2017

Chi-Raq

Sean 'Cyclops' Andrews ( Actor )

... 2015

... 2014

The Expendables 3

Doc ( Actor )

... 2014

Gallowwalkers

Aman ( Actor )

... 2012

Game of Death

Agent Marcus ( Actor )

... 2011

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

archival footage ( Actor )

... 2010

Brooklyn's Finest

Casanova 'Caz' Phillips ( Actor )

... 2010

The Art of War II: Betrayal

Neil Shaw ( Actor )

... 2008

The Contractor

James Dial ( Actor )

... 2007

Hard Luck

Lucky ( Actor )

... 2006

The Detonator

Sonni Griffith ( Actor )

... 2006

The Marksman

Painter ( Actor )

... 2005

... 2005

7 Seconds

Jack Tuliver ( Actor )

... 2005

Chaos

Lorenz / Jason York ( Actor )

... 2005

Blade: Trinity

Eric Brooks / Blade ( Actor )

Producer

... 2004

Unstoppable

Dean Cage ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2002

Undisputed

Monroe Hutchen ( Actor )

Executive Producer

... 2002

Zig Zag

Dave Fletcher ( Actor )

... 2002

... 2002

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

Blade Trio (Blade) (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2002

Blade II

Eric Brooks / Blade ( Actor )

Producer

... 2002

... 2002

Disappearing Acts

Franklin Swift ( Actor )

Executive Producer

... 2000

The Art of War

Neil Shaw ( Actor )

Executive Producer

... 2000

Play It to the Bone

Himself (Ringside Fan) ( Actor )

... 1999

Futuresport

Obike Fixx ( Actor )

Producer

... 1999

Down in the Delta

Will Sinclair ( Actor )

Producer

... 1998

Blade

Eric Brooks / Blade ( Actor )

Martial Arts Choreographer

... 1998

... 1998

Jackie Chan: My Story

Himself ( Actor )

Thanks

... 1998

U.S. Marshals

Mark Sheridan ( Actor )

... 1998

One Night Stand

Max Carlyle ( Actor )

... 1997

Murder at 1600

Detective Harlan Regis ( Actor )

... 1997

... 1996

... 1996

The Fan

Bobby Rayburn ( Actor )

... 1996

America's Dream

George Du Vaul (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black") ( Actor )

... 1996

Waiting to Exhale

James Wheeler (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1995

Money Train

John ( Actor )

... 1995

... 1995

Drop Zone

Pete Nessip ( Actor )

... 1994

Sugar Hill

Romello Skuggs ( Actor )

... 1994

Demolition Man

Simon Phoenix ( Actor )

... 1993

Hardwood Dreams

Narrator ( Actor )

... 1993

Rising Sun

Lt. Webster Smith ( Actor )

... 1993

Boiling Point

Jimmy Mercer ( Actor )

... 1993

Passenger 57

John Cutter ( Actor )

... 1992

The Waterdance

Raymond Hill ( Actor )

... 1992

White Men Can't Jump

Sidney Deane ( Actor )

... 1992

Jungle Fever

Flipper Purify ( Actor )

... 1991

New Jack City

Nino Brown ( Actor )

... 1991

Mo' Better Blues

Shadow Henderson (Sax) ( Actor )

... 1990

King of New York

Thomas Flanigan ( Actor )

... 1990

Major League

Willie Mays Hayes ( Actor )

... 1989

Critical Condition

Ambulance Driver ( Actor )

... 1987

Wildcats

Trumaine ( Actor )

... 1986

Streets of Gold

Roland Jenkins ( Actor )

... 1986