Wesley Snipes

**Wesley Trent Snipes** (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, martial artist and movie producer. He is best known for his role as the vampire hunter Blade in the _Blade_ trilogy movies.

Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida and spent most of his childhood in The Bronx, New York City. He moved back to Orlando when he was a teenager.

## Film

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|scope="col" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Wildcats_|Trumaine||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Streets of Gold_|Roland Jenkins||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Critical Condition_|Ambulance Driver|Cameo|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Major League_|Willie Mays Hayes||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_King of New York_|Detective Thomas Flanigan||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Mo' Better Blues_|Shadow Henderson||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_New Jack City_|Nino Brown||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Jungle Fever_|Flipper Purify||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Waterdance_|Raymond Hill||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_White Men Can't Jump_|Sidney "Syd" Deane||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Passenger 57_|Chief John Cutter||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Boiling Point_|Agent Jimmy Mercer||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Rising Sun_|Lieutenant Webster "Web" Smith||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Demolition Man_|Simon Phoenix||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Sugar Hill_|Romello "Rome" Skuggs||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Drop Zone_|U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar_|Noxeema Jackson||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Money Train_|Officer John Robinson||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Waiting to Exhale_|James Wheeler|Uncredited cameo|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Fan_|Bobby Rayburn||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk_||Documentary film; executive producer only|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Murder at 1600_|Detective Harlan Regis||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_One Night Stand_|Maximilian "Max" Carlyle|Limited release|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_U.S. Marshals_|Mark J. Sheridan / Mark Roberts / Mark Warren||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Big Hit_||Producer only|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Down in the Delta_|Will Sinclair|Limited release; also producer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Blade_|Eric Brooks / Blade|Also producer and martial arts choreographer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Play It to the Bone_|Ringside Fan|Limited release; cameo|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Art of War_|Agent Neil Shaw|Also executive producer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Liberty Stands Still_|Agent Alex / Joe|Limited release|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Zig Zag_|David "Dave" Fletcher|Limited release|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Blade II_|Eric Brooks / Blade|Also producer and fight coordinator|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Undisputed_|Monroe "Undisputed" Hutchens|Also executive producer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Unstoppable_|Agent Dean Cage|Limited release; also producer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Blade: Trinity_|Eric Brooks / Blade|Also producer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_7 Seconds_|Jack Tulliver|Direct-to-video|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Marksman_|Enter "The Marksman" Painter|Direct-to-video|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Chaos_|Lorenz / Jason York|Direct-to-video|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Detonator_|Agent Sonni Griffith|Direct-to-video|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Hard Luck_|Lucky|Direct-to-video|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Contractor_|Agent James Jackson Dial|Direct-to-video|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Art of War II: Betrayal_|Agent Neil Shaw|Direct-to-video|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Brooklyn's Finest_|Casanova "Caz" Phillips||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Game of Death_|Agent Marcus Jones|Direct-to-video|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Revelations of the Mayans: 2012 and Beyond_||Documentary film; executive producer only|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Gallowwalkers_|Aman|Direct-to-video|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Expendables 3_|Doctor "Doc" Death||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Chi-Raq_|Sean "Cyclops" Andrews|Limited release|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Recall_|"The Hunter"|Limited release; also producer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Armed Response_|Isaac|Direct-to-video; also producer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Dolemite Is My Name_|D'Urville Martin|Limited release|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Cut Throat City_|Lawrence|Limited release|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Coming 2 America_|General Izzi|Streaming release|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Back on the Strip_|Luther "Mr. Big"|Limited release; also producer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Deadpool & Wolverine_|Eric Brooks / Blade||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Another Other_||Short film|style="text-align: center;"|||||||

## Television

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|scope="col" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_All My Children_|Marty|Episode: "Episode #1.3877"|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Miami Vice_|Silk|Episode: "Streetwise"|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Vietnam War Story_|Bookman|Episode: "An Old Ghost Walks the Earth"|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_A Man Called Hawk_|Nicholas Murdock|2 episodes|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd_|Hood|Episode: "Here's Why You Should Always Make Your Bed in the Morning"|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_H.E.L.P._|Officer Lou Barton|6 episodes|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_America's Dream_|George Du Vail|Television film|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child_|The Pied Piper|Episode: "The Pied Piper"; voice role|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Masters of the Martial Arts Presented by Wesley Snipes_||Television documentary film; executive producer only|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Futuresport_|Obike Fixx|Television film; also producer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Disappearing Acts_|Franklin Swift|Television film; also executive producer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Dr. Ben_||Television documentary film; executive producer only|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Bernie Mac Show_|Duke|Episode: "Bernie Mac Rope-a-Dope"|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Player_|Mr. Johnson|9 episodes|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Represent_||Episode: "Wesley Snipes Talks Blade and Black Panther"|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_What We Do in the Shadows_|Wesley|Episode: "The Trial"|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_True Story_|Carlton|7 episodes|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur_|Maris Morlak|2 episodes; voice role|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Paper Empire_|Damon Moore|2 episodes|style="text-align: center;"|||||||

## Theatre

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Notes|scope="col"||
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|_Execution of Justice_|Sister Boom Boom|Broadway||style="text-align: center;"||||||||

## Music videos

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col"|Performer|scope="col"|Notes|scope="col"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|"Bad"|Mini Max|Michael Jackson||style="text-align: center;"||||||||

## Soundtrack appearances

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Song|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|scope="col" class="unsortable"||
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|_Wildcats_|"Football Rap (End Credits)"|Uncredited|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Mo' Better Blues_|"Pop Top 40"||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_|"Fame"|Episode: "Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting/Wesley Snipes/Chris Cornell"; uncredited|style="text-align: center;"|||||||

## Video games

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Voice role|scope="col"|Notes|scope="col"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Demolition Man_|Simon Phoenix|Live action full-motion video|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Julius Styles: The International_|Julius Styles||style="text-align: center;"|||||||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Wesley Snipes
- **image**: Wesleysnipes cropped 2009.jpg
- **caption**: Wesley Snipes in 2009
- **birth name**: Wesley Trent Snipes
- **birth date**: July 31, 1962 (age 63)
- **birth place**: Orlando, Florida,
United States
- **height**: 5 ft 9 in
- **years active**: 1985-present
- **credits**: * "Willie Mays Hayes" in _Major League (movie), Major League_
* "Nino Brown" in _New Jack City_
* "Flipper Purify" in _Jungle Fever_
* "Sidney Deane" in _White Men Can't Jump_
* "Simon Phoenix" in _Demolition Man (movie), Demolition Man_
* "Blade" in the _Blade (movie), Blade trilogy_
- **spouse**: Nikki Park (2003-present)
 April Duboise (1985-1990)