Wesley Snipes

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Who is Wesley Snipes?

Wesley Snipes: Wesley Trent Snipes is an American actor, film producer, and martial artist. He is best known for his role as the Marvel Comics character Blade in the Blade film trilogy. He formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991, and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd dan black belt in Hapkido.

• also known as Wesley Trent Snipes, Welsey Snipes
• born on 31 July 1962 (53 years ago) in Orlando, child of Marian Snipes and Wesley R. Snipes
• ethnicity: African American
• nationality: United States of America
• profession: Actor, martial artist, film producer, businessperson, dancer, singer
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Doug Pratt's DVD (2005)

Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More! by Douglas Pratt

Wesley Snipes is a homicide detective being manipulated by White House advisors and Diane Lane is a Secret Service agent who assists him. Alan Alda and Dennis Miller are also featured. The 1996 film can be fun if you just kind of go with it, but if you start asking too many questions you'll spoil things. The pacing is good and the ending, believable or not, is exciting. The death of one of the aforementioned stars at the end, incidentally, is highly ...

Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture [4 volumes] (2010)

by Jessie Carney Smith

Mo' Better Blues, starring Denzel Washington and Spike Lee, directed and written by Spike Lee Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury, directed by Mira Nair, written by Sooni Taraporevala New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes and Ice T, directed by Mario Van Peebles, written by Thomas Lee Wright The Five Heartbeats, starring Robert Townsend and Michael Wright, directed by Robert Townsend, written by Robert Townsend and Keenen Ivory ...

Encyclopedia of Sports Films (2010)

by K Edgington, Thomas Erskine, James M. Welsh

Wesley Snipes (Bobby Rayburn) , Ellen Barkin (jewel Stern), ...

Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema (2015)

by S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry

Cast: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Pearlman, Leonor Varela, Norman Reedus, Thomas Kretschmann, Luke Gross, Matt Schulze, Donnie Yen, Danny John Jules, Daz Crawford, Karel Roden, Tony Curran, Santiago Segura, Marit Velle Kile. Director: Guillermo del Toro. Writer: David S. Goyer. Cinematographer: Gabriel Beristain. Music: Marco Beltrami, Danny Saber. See also BLADE; BLADE : TRINITY. BLADE: TRINITY. 2004. (R) 113 min. Horror. As the third film in the Blade ...

Dictionary of First Names (1995)

by Iseabail Macleod, Terry Freedman

Wesley Snipes ...

The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television, 2d ed. (2004)

by John Kenneth Muir

CAST: Wesley Snipes (Blade); Kris Kristoffer- son (Whistler); Ron Perlman (Reinhardt); Leonar Varela ( Nyssa); Norman Reedus (Scud); Thomas Kretschmann (Overlord Eli Damaskinos ); Luke Goss (Jared Nomak); Matthew Schulze (Chupa); Danny John Jules (Asad ); ...

100 Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries [2 volumes] (2013)

An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries by Robert C. Sickels

opposite Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson (Deanne et al. 2005, 100). Though the movie received mixed reviews ...

Encyclopedia of Religion and Film (2011)

by Eric Michael Mazur

Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Dominic Purcell, Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds. [Superheroes] Blade afSatans bog (Leaves from Satan's Book), 1921. Dir.

Encyclopedia of Television Shows (2017)

A Comprehensive Supplement, 2011–2016 by Vincent Terrace

Wesley Snipes (Isaiah Johnson), Damon Gupton (Det. Cal Brown), Daisey Betts ( Virginia Lee, ...

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I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen. (Wesley Snipes)
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