Wesley Snipes
Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor and martial artist. Snipes has made films in a variety of genres, such as numerous thrillers, dramatic feature films, and comedies, though he is best known for his action films. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his work in The Waterdance (1992) and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in the film One Night Stand (1997). Born in Florida, Snipes had notable parts in the comedy film Major League (1989), the drama Mo' Better Blues (1990), and the crime drama King of New York (1990) before gaining prominence by playing a drug lord in the crime drama New Jack City (1991). He subsequently received more attention for the drama film Jungle Fever (1991), the sports comedy White Men Can't Jump (1992), and the action film Passenger 57 (1992). He has since starred in various genres, such as the comedy film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), the thriller The Fan (1996), and the drama film Down in the Delta (1998), but mostly established himself as an action star, portraying both heroes and villains in films such as Demolition Man (1993), Rising Sun (1993), Money Train (1995), and U.S. Marshals (1998). Also in 1998, he was cast as Eric Brooks/BBlade in the superhero film Blade, based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name, a role he went on to reprise in Blade II (2002), Blade: Trinity (2004), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Snipes had smaller roles during the 2000s and moved to direct-to-video action films before returning to the theatrical release with films such as Brooklyn's Finest (2009) and The Expendables 3 (2014). His television work includes multiple episodes in the drama series H.E.L.P. (1990), the action thriller crime drama series The Player (2015), and the drama limited series True Story (2021), as well as the romantic drama film Disappearing Acts (2000). He formed a production company, 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 the age of 12, earning a 5thdan black belt in Shotokan karate and a 2nddan black belt in Hapkido. He is credited with helping popularise martial arts in Hollywood and bringing martial arts to mainstream audiences, as well as contributing to the representation of Black actors in action roles, breaking stereotypes. In 2017, Snipes made his debut as a novelist with the urban fantasy supernatural adventure Talon of God. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Snipes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2024 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine as Self - Blade
- 2024 · Deadpool & Wolverine as Blade
- 2024 · Where’s Usher? as Leslie Snipes
- 2023 · Back on the Strip as Luther 'Mr. Big'
- 2023 · Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur as Maris Morlak (voice)
- 2021 · True Story as Carlton
- 2021 · Coming 2 America as General Izzi
- 2020 · Cut Throat City as Lawrence
- 2019 · Dolemite Is My Name as D’Urville Martin
- 2019 · What We Do in the Shadows as Wesley
- 2018 · Basketball: A Love Story as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Armed Response as Isaac
- 2017 · The Recall as The Hunter
- 2015 · Chi-Raq as Sean 'Cyclops' Andrews
- 2015 · The Player as Mr. Johnson
- 2014 · The Making of The Expendables 3 as Self
- 2014 · The Expendables 3 as Doc
- 2012 · Gallowwalkers as Aman
- 2011 · Game of Death as Agent Marcus
- 2010 · 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift as (archive footage)
- 2010 · Brooklyn's Finest as Casanova 'Caz' Phillips
- 2008 · The Art of War II: Betrayal as Neil Shaw
- 2007 · Hard Luck as Lucky
- 2007 · The Contractor as James Dial
- 2006 · The Detonator as Sonni Griffith
- 2005 · The Marksman as Painter
- 2005 · Nightstalkers, Daywalkers, and Familiars: Inside the World of 'Blade Trinity' as Self
- 2005 · 7 Seconds as Jack Tuliver
- 2005 · Chaos as Lorenz / Jason York
- 2004 · Blade: Trinity as Eric Brooks / Blade
- 2004 · Unstoppable as Dean Cage
- 2002 · Undisputed as Monroe Hutchen
- 2002 · Zig Zag as Dave Fletcher
- 2002 · Blade II as Blade
- 2002 · Liberty Stands Still as Joe
- 2001 · The Bernie Mac Show as Duke
- 2000 · Disappearing Acts as Franklin Swift
- 2000 · The Art of War as Neil Shaw
- 1999 · Play It to the Bone as Wesley Snipes (Ringside Fan)
- 1999 · Futuresport as Obike Fixx
- 1998 · Down in the Delta as Will Sinclair
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
- 1998 · Blade as Blade
- 1998 · Masters of the Martial Arts Presented by Wesley Snipes as Self
- 1998 · Jackie Chan: My Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1998 · U.S. Marshals as Sheridan
- 1997 · One Night Stand as Max Carlyle
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
- 1997 · Murder at 1600 as Detective Harlan Regis
- 1996 · John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk as Narrator
- 1996 · Jackie Chan - From Stuntman to Superstar as Self
- 1996 · The Fan as Bobby Rayburn
- 1996 · America's Dream as George Du Vaul (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black")
- 1995 · Waiting to Exhale as James Wheeler (uncredited)
- 1995 · Money Train as John
- 1995 · To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar as Noxeema Jackson
- 1995 · Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as The Pied Piper (voice)
- 1994 · Drop Zone as Pete Nessip
- 1994 · Sugar Hill as Romello Skuggs
- 1993 · Demolition Man as Simon Phoenix
- 1993 · Hardwood Dreams as Narrator
- 1993 · Rising Sun as Lt. Webster Smith
- 1993 · Boiling Point as Jimmy Mercer
- 1992 · Passenger 57 as John Cutter
- 1992 · HBO First Look as
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1992 · The Waterdance as Raymond Hill
- 1992 · White Men Can't Jump as Sidney Deane
- 1991 · Sous les marches du palais as Self
- 1991 · Jungle Fever as Flipper Purify
- 1991 · New Jack City as Nino Brown
- 1990 · Mo' Better Blues as Shadow Henderson (Sax)
- 1990 · King of New York as Thomas Flanigan
- 1990 · H.E.L.P. as Off. Lou Barton
- 1989 · Major League as Willie Mays Hayes
- 1987 · Bad as Mini Max
- 1987 · The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd as Hood
- 1987 · Critical Condition as Ambulance Driver
- 1986 · Wildcats as Trumaine
- 1984 · Miami Vice as Silk
- Future · Outbreak Z as
- 1986 · Streets of Gold as Roland Jenkins
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self