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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 31, 1962
Place of Birth
Orlando, Florida, USA
Also Known As
- Wesley Trent Snipes
- وسلی اسنایپس
- وسلی اِسنَایپس
Wesley Snipes
3.4 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.7
Self - Blade
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
7.6
Blade
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
0.0
Leslie Snipes
Where's Usher?
2024
5.6
Luther 'Mr. Big'
Back on the Strip
2023
7.7
Morlak (voice)
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
7.1
Carlton
True Story
2021
6.4
General Izzi
Coming 2 America
2021
6.4
Lawrence
Cut Throat City
2020
7.0
D’Urville Martin
Dolemite Is My Name
2019
8.0
Wesley
What We Do in the Shadows
2019
Credits
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
as Self - Blade
2024
6.7
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Blade
2024
7.6
Where's Usher?
as Leslie Snipes
2024
0.0
Back on the Strip
as Luther 'Mr. Big'
2023
5.6
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
as Morlak (voice)
2023
7.7
True Story
as Carlton
2021
7.1
Coming 2 America
as General Izzi
2021
6.4
Cut Throat City
as Lawrence
2020
6.4
Dolemite Is My Name
as D’Urville Martin
2019
7.0
What We Do in the Shadows
as Wesley
2019
8.0
Basketball: A Love Story
as Self (archive footage)
2018
7.3
Armed Response
as Isaac
2017
5.2
The Recall
as The Hunter
2017
4.6
Forensic Justice
as Self (archive footage)
2016
0.0
Chi-Raq
as Sean 'Cyclops' Andrews
2015
5.7
The Player
as Mr. Johnson
2015
6.2
The Making of The Expendables 3
as Self
2014
6.6
The Expendables 3
as Doc
2014
6.2
Gallowwalkers
as Aman
2012
4.7
Game of Death
as Agent Marcus
2011
4.9
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
as (archive footage)
2010
6.1
Brooklyn's Finest
as Casanova 'Caz' Phillips
2010
6.3
The Art of War II: Betrayal
as Neil Shaw
2008
4.7
The Contractor
as James Dial
2007
5.6
Hard Luck
as Lucky
2006
5.5
The Detonator
as Sonni Griffith
2006
4.6
The Marksman
as Painter
2005
5.4
Nightstalkers, Daywalkers, and Familiars: Inside the World of 'Blade: Trinity'
as Self
2005
5.7
7 Seconds
as Jack Tuliver
2005
5.5
Chaos
as Lorenz / Jason York
2005
6.3
Blade: Trinity
as Eric Brooks / Blade
2004
5.9
Unstoppable
as Dean Cage
2004
5.1
The Blood Pact: The Making of 'Blade II'
as Self
2002
3.0
Undisputed
as Monroe Hutchen
2002
6.5
Zig Zag
as Dave Fletcher
2002
5.7
Blade II
as Blade
2002
6.6
Liberty Stands Still
as Joe
2002
5.4
The Bernie Mac Show
as Duke
2001
6.5
Disappearing Acts
as Franklin Swift
2000
6.1
The Art of War
as Neil Shaw
2000
5.7
Play It to the Bone
as Wesley Snipes (Ringside Fan)
1999
5.5
Futuresport
as Obike Fixx
1999
4.3
Down in the Delta
as Will Sinclair
1998
6.2
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
3.0
Blade
as Blade
1998
6.8
Masters of the Martial Arts Presented by Wesley Snipes
as Self
1998
8.5
U.S. Marshals
as Sheridan
1998
6.5
One Night Stand
as Max Carlyle
1997
5.6
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.3
Murder at 1600
as Detective Harlan Regis
1997
6.1
John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk
as Narrator
1996
1.0
Jackie Chan - From Stuntman to Superstar
as Self
1996
7.0
The Fan
as Bobby Rayburn
1996
6.0
America's Dream
as George Du Vaul (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black")
1996
6.4
Waiting to Exhale
as James Wheeler (uncredited)
1995
6.3
Money Train
as John
1995
5.8
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
as Noxeema Jackson
1995
7.4
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as The Pied Piper (voice)
1995
6.0
Drop Zone
as Pete Nessip
1994
5.7
Sugar Hill
as Romello Skuggs
1994
5.6
Demolition Man
as Simon Phoenix
1993
6.8
Hardwood Dreams
as Narrator
1993
0.0
Rising Sun
as Lt. Webster Smith
1993
6.1
Boiling Point
as Jimmy Mercer
1993
4.9
The Real Malcolm X
1992
0.0
Passenger 57
as John Cutter
1992
6.0
HBO First Look
1992
4.9
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
The Waterdance
as Raymond Hill
1992
5.9
White Men Can't Jump
as Sidney Deane
1992
6.6
Sous les marches du palais
as Self
1991
0.0
Jungle Fever
as Flipper Purify
1991
6.4
New Jack City
as Nino Brown
1991
6.6
Mo' Better Blues
as Shadow Henderson (Sax)
1990
6.5
King of New York
as Thomas Flanigan
1990
6.8
H.E.L.P.
as Lou Barton
1990
6.0
Major League
as Willie Mays Hayes
1989
6.9
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
as Hood
1987
6.0
Critical Condition
as Ambulance Driver
1987
5.5
Streets of Gold
as Roland Jenkins
1986
5.0
Wildcats
as Trumaine
1986
6.3
Miami Vice
as Silk
1984
7.5
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
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Outbreak Z
N/A
0.0