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The good looking and muscular Wesley Snipes has shown himself skilled at drama, comedy, sports, and adventure films. He worked countless small jobs while searching for stage work. Co-founder of the drama ensemble Struttin' Street Stuff, Snipes surfaced in television commercials for such goods as Levi's 501 jeans and Coca-Cola before getting his first real break and unmasking his Broadway debut in the Vietnam drama "The Boys of Winter" (1985).

Snipes originally hit filmmaker Spike Lee's radar screen when he played a young thug who threatens Michael Jackson in the Martin Scorsese directed music video, "Bad" (1987). Spike Lee later hired him as musician Shadow Henderson in "Mo' Better Blues" film (1990) with Denzel Washington, and the central character in the stimulating "Jungle Fever" (1991) with Samuel L. Jackson. Snipes and co-star Annabella Sciorra made a very eye-catching team in a difficult friendship that was not done any favors by the poor script or screenplay. Unlike most African American actors of the past, Wesley Snipes has been cast as a constantly passionate lead in many mainstream Hollywood films and movie productions.

While Snipes began his profession portraying sports athletes, a football player in "Wildcats" (1986) and Willie Mays Hayes in "Major League" 1989), Snipes made a lasting impression in a small role in Abel Ferrara's "King of New York" (1990) and as the vicious drug kingpin in Mario Van Peebles' "New Jack City" (1991) about a crime lord who ascends to power and becomes egomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.

In 1992, Snipes scored with two smash hits, the basketball film "White Men Can't Jump", co-starring Woody Harrelson, about black and white basketball hustlers who join forces to double their chances at winning. Next was "Die Hard" copycat version of "Passenger 57". Snipes also found energy to play a handicapped man in the more down-to-earth drama, "The Waterdance" (1992) with Helen Hunt before returning to the action adventure genre with "Boiling Point", as a federal agent determined to avenge the death of a associate; and then "Demolition Man" (1993) with Sandra Bullock, as policeman Sylvester Stallone's disturbed enemy. The film led to a $10 million paycheck for his next movie, "Drop Zone" (1994), with Snipes as a United States Marshall on the pursuit of a group of rebel stunt skydivers.

The role of drag queen Noxeema Jackson in "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar" (1995) was by far one of Snipes' most celebrated roles, and he quickly put a stop to a sequel. He returned to more well-known action ground and rejoined with Harrelson in "The Money Train" with Jennifer Lopez about a vengeful New York transit cop who decides to steal a trainload of subway fares; his foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him. Next was a small cameo role as a silver-tongued married man trying to hit on Angela Bassett in the fashionable female bonding movie "Waiting to Exhale" (1995) based on Terry McMillan's novel, this film follows four very different African American women and their relationships with the male gender.

After a role as a baseball player hassled by the fanatical Robert De Niro as "The Fan" (1996), Wesley Snipes moved into producing, acting as executive producer and speaker of the documentary "John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk" (1996) and the action adventure movie "The Big Hit" (1998) with Christina Applegate and Mark Wahlberg about Melvin Smiley, a successful young hitman, who is living a normal life for his Jewish fiancé Pam.

Even with an increased role behind the cameras, Snipes continued to remain industrious as an actor. He was the DC detective investigating "Murder at 1600" and an two-timing husband in "One Night Stand" (1997). After appearing as the target of Tommy Lee Jones in "U.S. Marshals" (1998) about United States Marshal Samuel Gerard and his team of Marshals who are assigned to track down Sheridan (Snipes), a murderer and robber. Next was the power-house role in the action thriller "Blade" (1998), an African American superhero fighting with a group of vampires. Snipes ended the year as star and producer in Maya Angelou's directorial introduction, "Down in the Delta" and moving back once again to the small screen in the science fiction action adventure film "Futuresport" (1998).

In the action adventure thriller “The Art of War” (2000), Snipes played Neil Shaw, an international terrorism guru who, after being set up by thugs in an attempt to bring down the United Nations, wages a secretive war to prevent World War III. After filming the penitentiary boxing and fighting movie “Undisputed” (2002), Snipes once again came back to play the lead role in “Blade II” (2002), where Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reaper vampires who feed on vampires. Snipes also appeared in the follow-on “Blade: Trinity” (2004), co-starring Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds.

Then Snipes appeared in the action adventure "Unstoppable" (2004) about the deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes) is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. The following years Snipes was hired and cast for the crime thriller "7 Seconds" (2005) a story about when an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, and his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan. Next was the action file "The Marksman" (2005) about Chechen rebels who take over a Russian nuclear plant and it's up to a mysterious agent (Snipes) to stop them. The actor finished the year with another crime drama titled "Chaos" (2005) with Ryan Phillippe about two cops, a rookie and a grizzled vet, who pursue an accomplished bank robber.

The year 2006 had Snipes appearing in two films. The first, the action thriller "The Detonator" (2006) about Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent who must protect a witness as he crosses Europe. The actors second film that year was the film "Hard Luck" (2006), three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed when a former drug dealer (Snipes) tries to go straight. Snipes then starred in the role of James Dial in the movie "The Contractor" (2007) about an ex-CIA agent who is asked to take out a terrorist, only to realize he's been set up by his former employer.

Wesley Snipes next projects include the western horror "Gallowwalker" (2009) about a cursed gunman (Snipes) whose victims come back from the dead and recruits a young warrior to help in the fight against a gang of zombies. Finally, Snipes starred with Ethan Hawke in the crime drama "Brooklyn's Finest" (2009). How much Snipes will appear in this film is unclear since his conviction on tax fraud in May 2008 cost him 36 months in jail.

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