Home Movie Actor English English Movie Actor
Written By - Team Nettv4u

Wesley Trent Snipes is a movie actor, Martial Artist, and a Film Producer. He is best known for his part, Blade in the series of the same name. He has the 5th black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd dan black belt in Hapkido.

Early life

Wesley Snipes's hometown is in Orlando, Florida. He spent his childhood in Net York with his parents. He did his schooling from Fiorello H. LaGuardia high school of music and art performing. Although, he migrated back to Florida before his graduation. Snipes completed his graduation from Jones High School in Orlando. He returned to New York Click to look into! >> Read More... and got a degree from the State University of New York. He has also secured a degree from Southwest College in Los Angeles, California.

Personal life

Wesley Snipes is an ardent martial art follower, and he has been training himself since the age of twelve. He is thorough with various forms of Martial Arts, and he has also received black belts in various degrees. Snipes married two times. His first wife, April Snipes was with him for five years. They also have a son together. In 2003, Snipes married Nakyung Park with whom he has four children. He was originally a Christian but converted himself to Islam later. Though, Snipes left practicing Islam. He once said in an interview, " Islam made me more conscious of what African people have accomplished, of my self-worth, and gave me some self-dignity." During the tragedy of the collapse of World Trade Center, Snipes apartment got collapsed. Fortunately, he was not present there at that moment.

Career

Wesley, at the age of twenty-three, was spotted by an agent amidst performing in competition. He debuted with the film Goldie Hawn Born in Washington, DC, Goldie Hawn is an American >> Read More... in the year 1986. In the same year, he did a television show Miami Voice. He played the role of a drug dealer in the same. The next year, that is, 1987, Snipes appeared in the music video, Bad as Michael Jackson's nemesis. He gave some blockbusters like Major League, Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, amongst others. Snipes has also tried his skills in Comedy genre like White Men Can't Jump and To Wong Foo. In the year 1998, he performed in the most commercially successful movie, Blade. It broke all records in Box Office Box Office is a Tamil entertainment TV serial whic >> Read More... . He is extremely passionate and active about his work and profession, and he devotes his time to working. Along with his film career, he spread his knowledge and talent of Martial arts by opening a security firm along with his brother called Amen-Ra, which is also the name of his production house. With the help of this company, they used to provide bodyguards to celebrities and VIPs.

Awards

In his long career, Wesley Snipes has been rewarded for all the great work that he has done in the industry. He has been nominated for a variety of awards like the award for the best fight, the award for the best villain, award for best supporting actor, etc. While, he has won several awards for different categories like Award for the best actor, Best Actor in Television Movie, Best Actor in a motion picture, etc.

OTHER MOVIE ACTORS


Khalid Abdalla English Movie Actor
DOB: 26 October 1980
Eric McCormack English Movie Actor
DOB: 18 April 1963
Ian McKellen English Movie Actor
DOB: 25 May 1939
Scott Glenn English Movie Actor
DOB: 26 January 1941
Elisha Cook Jr. English Movie Actor
DOB: 26 December 1903
Jonathan Bailey English Movie Actor
DOB: 25 April 1988

BORN TODAY


Born: 28 March 1970

Age Now 54

Vince Vaughn - (Movie Actor)

Born: 28 March 1972

Age Now 52

Nick Frost - (Movie Actor)

Born: 28 March 1981

Age Now 43

Julia Stiles - (Movie Actress)

Born: 28 March 1943

Age Now 81

Conchata Ferell - (Movie Actress)

Born: 28 March 1948

Age Now 76

Dianne Wiest - (Movie Actress)

Born: 28 March 1989

Age Now 35

Lady Gaga - (Singer)

Born: 28 March 1942

Age Now 82

John Judd - (Movie Actor)

Born: 28 March 1991

Age Now 33

Mya Taylor - (Movie Actress)