Wesley Trent Snipes

Wesley Snipes is an American actor, known for his work throughout the world. There are more than 60 works in his film library, including "Blade", "Destroyer", "Murder in the White House" and others.

Wesley Trent Snipes was born on July 31, 1962 in the US state of Florida, in the city of Orlando. His mother worked as an assistant teacher, his father - an aviation engineer. True, the father left the family when the boy was 2 years old. After the divorce, the mother decided to move from Orlando to the New York Bronx area, where her relatives lived. Then it was one of the most disadvantaged areas of the metropolis, inhabited by poor African and Latin Americans, built up with slums and famous for a burgeoning crime.

Their family was not particularly wealthy. Mom had to work in two jobs, and by hook or by crook she tried to save her son from the temptation to get on the criminal path. When the boy was 7 years old, she sent him to a martial arts school, for a long time the actor has been engaged in the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira.

However, such a negative situation in the South Bronx did not interfere with the actor: he studied well and graduated from the High School of Performing Arts. Young Snipes chose a vocal, dance and stage speech class.

Soon after, the Wesley family moved to their home state, and the future world famous actor was forced to postpone his education for a while. But he did a lot of practice, performing in the street theater group "Struttin 'Street Stuff" and earning this his first money.

Young Snipes strove for titles and a prestigious specialty, so after a while he returned to New York. There he entered the university, successfully graduated and received the coveted Bachelor of Arts degree. In his student years, the artist continued to earn money, acting in commercials and performing small roles in the theater.

Wesley Snipes believed in his talent and regularly went to numerous auditions, both during his studies at the university and after graduation. His first success was in the 1986 film Wild Cats, directed by Goldie Hawn. Although the picture was not very popular with the viewer, getting a serious role in a full-length film was of great importance for the actor's creative career.

This was followed by small roles in the films "Golden Streets" and "Critical Condition", and in 1987 there was a long-awaited breakthrough. He was not connected at all with participation in the film that exploded the world film distribution, but with the filming of a video clip. The video was filmed for the song "Bad" by Michael Jackson. The charisma and artistry of Snipes impressed Martin Scorsese so much (it was he who, by a happy coincidence, shot this video) that he decided to continue working with the young actor.

Thanks to him, Wesley got the lead role in the movie "Better Life Blues", which was released in 1990. The result was not long in coming: Snipes was noticed and began to offer one role after another. He played both an unprincipled drug lord in The King of New York, a courageous security officer in Passenger 57, and several other characters.

In 1992, Wesley starred in the basketball film White People Can't Jump. He and Woody Harelson took the lead roles, and subsequently earned them MTV Movie Award nominations. But this was not the most valuable thing, but the fact that after this work Snipes found a true friend. By the way, they later starred in the action movie "Money Train". And this time their tandem was incredibly successful - the box office was colossal.

Gradually, Snipes began to be invited to high-budget films with great potential. So, in 1993, the actor managed to work with the eminent Sean Connery in the crime thriller Rising Sun. In the same year, Wesley's partner was the no less famous Sylvester Stallone, with whom he starred in the fantastic action movie "Destroyer".

In 1996, the increasingly popular artist managed to work with Robert De Niro. The actors played the leading roles in the thriller Fan. The film follows a football fan with mental health problems and his developing insanity.

In the second half of the 1990s, Wesley proved that he could do well with dramatic roles, having successfully played in the melodrama "A Date for One Night" with Nastassja Kinski. For this role, the actor was even awarded the Venice Film Festival prize.

However, the role in the action movie brought Snipes worldwide fame: in 1998, he starred as Blade (Eric Brooks) in the movie Blade based on the Marvel comics. The film tells about a half-man, half-vampire, possessed by righteous anger and a thirst for revenge. In the same year, the actor received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The sequels of the first "Blade" were not as popular as the first film, unlike the famous Wesley Snipes. The actor starred in one or two films every year, and they often became commercially successful. "At gunpoint", "Nine Lives", "Chaos", "Shooter", "The Expendables 3" - all these films, like many others, Wesley decorated with a brilliant transformation into his characters.

In 2014, information appeared on the Web that Wesley Snipes would play in the new part of the Blade franchise. The actor's fee will be $ 3 million, plus a percentage of the profits if the film is successful at the box office. But so far the film has not been released. Perhaps it stopped at the level of conversations.

The actor's partners on the set were Tommy Lee Jones, Jennifer Lopez, Jason Statham, Halle Berry and other popular artists. In 2016, Snipes starred in Five Minutes of Life. Today, the actor is still in the mood for serious work and is sure that the best films are not only behind him, but also ahead.

The stocky Wesley Snipes, who is 175 cm tall and weighs about 88 kg, has always been a favorite of women. The actor has been married twice. In 1985, a longtime girlfriend named April, a native of Puerto Rico, became his chosen one. Three years after the wedding, the wife gave the actor a child - a son named Zhelani Asar. Unfortunately, the spouses' happiness was short-lived, and already in 1990 their marriage broke up.

Subsequently, Wesley dated actress Halle Berry, artist Donna Wong and other attractive girls. But the Korean native Nikki Park really changed his fate. Snipes met this beauty in the early 2000s, and already in 2003 he took the chosen one down the aisle.

Children also appeared in this marriage: his beloved wife gave birth to Wesley three sons and one daughter. However, Nikki's age is not too old, and it is possible that a new addition is not far off.

In 2008, during the trial, it turned out that Wesley Snipes had not paid taxes to the state for ten years (from 1991 to 2001). As a result, he owed over fifteen million dollars to the Treasury and was sentenced to three years in prison. Snipes tried to pay off the harsh sentence by paying off the debt, but the judges were adamant.

When the appeal was pending, Wesley was released on bail. But already in December 2010, shortly after the rejection of the petition, the actor still ended up in prison. He served his term in Pennsylvania. Snipes' arrest ended a little ahead of schedule for exemplary behavior: the actor was released from prison in April 2013.

The actor continues to act in films, after imprisonment sentences have not diminished. But in 2016 he decided to try his hand at literature. He co-authored with Ray Norman and published the book Talon of God. He announced this on Instagram. The novel is written in the spirit of Blade. As Wesley Snipes himself says, they originally wrote a book for the film adaptation. It tells of the battle between heaven and hell.

In the center of the plot - Dr. Lauren Jefferson and a spiritual warrior named Hunter Claw. The latter wants to retire from business, namely from battles with evil spirits, and transfer knowledge to the student, which will become Lauren. Of course, no one doubts that the main role in the film, if it is still shot, will go to Snipes.

In 2017, with the participation of Wesley Snipes, two films were released at once - the thriller Armed Response and the horror film Return.

Also on the Web there was information that the actor is participating in the filming of the fantastic thriller "The Chronicles of the Mayan Tunnel." Presumably, the film will talk about four guys who moved in time 1500 years ago, during the heyday of the Mayan empire. But the date of the premiere has not yet been announced, whether it will take place in 2018 is not yet known.

1990 - "Blues for the Best 1992 -" Passenger 57 "1992 -" White People Can't Jump "1995 -" Money Train "1996 -" Fan "1997 -" Murder in the White House "1997 -" One Night Out "1998 - Blade 2000 - The Art of War 2004 - Nine Lives 2006 - The Detonator 2007 - The Shooter 2014 - The Expendables 3 2017 - The Return

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