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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1962-07-31
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 25.8
- info Birth Place Orlando, Florida, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Wesley Snipes
6.7
White Men Can't Jump
1992-03-27
5.4
Liberty Stands Still
2002-01-18
6
Passenger 57
1992-11-06
6.4
Jungle Fever
1991-06-07
6.7
New Jack City
1991-03-08
6.3
Chaos
2005-01-17
5.7
Drop Zone
1994-12-08
5.6
Play It to the Bone
1999-12-25
5.9
Money Train
1995-11-21
5.5
The Marksman
2005-09-06
5.7
The Art of War
2000-08-25
5
Boiling Point
1993-04-16
6.6
U.S. Marshals
1998-03-06
5.2
Unstoppable
2004-10-20
4.6
The Detonator
2006-04-25
6.2
Rising Sun
1993-07-30
6.1
Murder at 1600
1997-04-18
7.3
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995-09-07
6.3
Brooklyn's Finest
2010-03-04
5.5
7 Seconds
2005-06-28
6.8
Demolition Man
1993-10-08
5.6
One Night Stand
1997-11-14
6.7
King of New York
1990-07-18
6
The Fan
1996-08-15
6.9
Major League
1989-02-16
5.6
Hard Luck
2007-10-17
4.8
The Art of War II: Betrayal
2008-08-12
6.5
Blade II
2002-03-22
6.3
Wildcats
1986-02-14
6.5
Mo' Better Blues
1990-08-03
6.8
Blade
1998-08-21
5.9
Blade: Trinity
2004-12-08
5.1
Streets of Gold
1986-01-01
6.6
Undisputed
2002-07-17
5.6
The Contractor
2007-07-10
6.1
The Waterdance
1992-05-13
6.4
Disappearing Acts
2000-12-09
4.3
Futuresport
1999-09-30
4.8
Gallowwalkers
2012-10-27
5
Game of Death
2011-03-31
5.6
Sugar Hill
1994-02-25
5.9
Back on the Strip
2023-08-17
6.4
Down in the Delta
1998-12-25
6.3
The Expendables 3
2014-08-07
5.9
Zig Zag
2002-06-14
0
Where’s Usher?
2024-02-08
0
Sous les marches du palais
1991-09-14
6.5
The Making of The Expendables 3
2014-11-25
8.5
Masters of the Martial Arts Presented by Wesley Snipes
1998-08-18
5.8
Chi-Raq
2015-12-04
7.5
Bad
1987-08-31
6.3
Waiting to Exhale
1995-12-22
6.6
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010-08-03
7
America's Dream
1996-02-17
7.8
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024-07-24
5.2
Armed Response
2017-08-04
5.5
Critical Condition
1987-01-16
4.6
The Recall
2017-06-02
0
Hardwood Dreams
1993-10-01
7.2
Jackie Chan - From Stuntman to Superstar
1996-08-30
6.6
Cut Throat City
2020-07-31
7.1
Dolemite Is My Name
2019-10-04
1
John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk
1996-09-10
0
Outbreak Z
6.5
Coming 2 America
2021-03-04
5.5
Nightstalkers, Daywalkers, and Familiars: Inside the World of 'Blade Trinity'
2005-07-13
6.3
Jackie Chan: My Story
1998-07-17
6
H.E.L.P.
1990-03-03
6.4
The Bernie Mac Show
2001-11-14
7.5
Miami Vice
1984-09-16
4.5
The View
1997-08-11
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992-05-25
6
Basketball: A Love Story
2018-09-18
7
True Story
2021-11-24
6.2
The Player
2015-09-24
7
The Oscars
1953-03-19
6.6
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995-03-12
8
What We Do in the Shadows
2019-03-27
7.5
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023-02-10
5
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1987-05-21
2.8
Vivement dimanche
1998-09-20
4.9
HBO First Look
1992-06-12
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4.9
The Art of War
2000-08-25
4.9
The Big Hit
1998-04-24
4.9
Blade II
2002-03-22
4.9
Blade
1998-08-21
4.9
Futuresport
1999-09-30
4.9
Disappearing Acts
2000-12-09
4.9
Blade: Trinity
2004-12-08
4.9
Blade
1998-08-21
4.9
Back on the Strip
2023-08-17
4.9
The Recall
2017-06-02
4.9
Armed Response
2017-08-04
4.9
Down in the Delta
1998-12-25
4.9
Undisputed
2002-07-17
4.9
Outbreak Z
4.9
Jackie Chan: My Story
1998-07-17