Wesley Snipes

Wesley Snipes is an actor and producer known all over the world for his roles in the likes of Blade, New Jack City, White Men Can’t Jump, Brooklyn’s Finest, and Dolemite is My Name. He is the winner of many awards, including two NAACP Image Awards and two Black Reel Awards. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Among his more recent successes are the role of Isaiah Johnson in NBC crime drama The Player and Damon Moore in Paper Empire. As if those achievements weren’t enough, he is also a black belt in Karate and Hapkido.

Snipes trained in the performing arts in New York and Los Angeles. He was discovered by an agent in the mid-1980s and began appearing in film and television shows, including a minor role in Miami Vice. He got his first big break in 1987 when he was cast in the Martin Scorcese-directed video for Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’. He got his first big box-office hit with the 1989 sports comedy Major League. He followed this up with roles in Spike Lee films Mo’ Better Blues and Jungle Fever. By the time he appeared in the likes of New Jack City and White Men Can’t Jump, Snipes had become one of the most popular actors of the early 1990s. In 1998, he starred in the first of the Blade films, a franchise that would give him his greatest commercial success.

Recent years have seen him maintain his success with roles in the likes of The Expendables 3 and the critically acclaimed Dolemite is My Name.