Wesley Trent Snipes is an American actor, film producer, martial artist and author. His prominent film roles include New Jack City, White Men Can’t Jump, Passenger 57, Demolition Man and the Marvel Comics character Blade. He formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991, and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd dan blackbelt in Hapkido.
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Wesley Trent Snipes is an American actor, film producer, martial artist and author. His prominent film roles include New Jack City, White Men Can’t Jump, Passenger 57, Demolition Man and the Marvel Comics character Blade in the Blade film trilogy, The Expendables 3 and for his role on The Player. Snipes was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his work in The Waterdance and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in the film One Night Stand. He formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991, and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd dan blackbelt in Hapkido. He is the son of Marian, a teacher’s assistant, and Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer. He grew up in the Bronx, New York. He attended the High School of Performing Arts of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School but moved back to Florida before he could graduate.
In 2005, he sued New Line Cinema and David S. Goyer, the director and director of Blade: Trinity, claiming that he was not paid his full salary. In 2012, he appeared in Game of Death, Gallowers, released in the UK and filmed in Bulgaria and the UK. He was originally slated to play one of the four leads in Spike Lee’s U.S. Cinematic Universe but was later settled, no details were released. In 2010, Snipes appeared in The Contractor, filmed in The Game, Game of Game, Death, and The Game of death. He appeared in the TV show Miami Vice as a drug-dealing pimp in the episode ‘Streetwise’. He also appeared as Michael Jackson’s nemesis in the Martin Scorsese–directed music video ‘Bad’ and the feature film Streets of Gold. In 1998, he had his largest commercial success with Blade, which has grossed over USD 150 million worldwide. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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