Wesley Snipes, the start of films such as “White men cannot jump,” “Brooklyn’s Finest,” “Demolition Man,” “The Expendables 3”, “New Jack City,” and “Blade”, is one of the most The actor was successful in Hollywood’s history. Apart from acting, he was also a martial artist, after reaching the 5th black belt and in Shotokan Karate. He also performed duties in federal prisons for tax evasion.
Putra Wesley Rudolph and Maryann Snipes, Wesley was born in Orlando, Florida, on July 31, 1962, like Wesley Trent Snipes. His mother was a teacher’s assistant and his father an airplane engineer. Wesley grew in Bronx and attended the High School of Fiorello H. Laguardia Art Music & Art and Performing art. Before he could graduate, he moved back to Florida without a diploma. Finally, he has one of Jones High School in Orlando. After completing high school, Wesley returned to New York to attend New York State University in purchases. Again, he moved before graduating, this time to Los Angeles, where he enrolled in Southwest College.
Career acting snipes began when he was 23 years old, with a role in Wildcats, a sports comedy starring Goldie Hawn in 1986. In the same year, he got a small role in Miami Vice’s popular TV show, playing pimps dealing with street episodes. Next year, he got the role of criminals at Spot Michael Jackson, directed by Martin Scorsese. He auditioned for the role of Geordi La Forge in the TV Serial Star Trek: the next generation, but the producer finally decided to give it to Levar Burton.
After seeing it in a bad thing, Spike Lee offered him a small role in his film did the right thing, but the snipes refused him for the Premier League, which was a big box office. With Cristopher Walken, he starred in King New York. Barry Michael Cooper wrote the role of Nino Brown specifically for him in New Jack City.
During the 1990s, he appeared in a series of action films, including 57 passengers, Demolition Man (with Sylvester Stallone), Train Money, Fans, Marshals, and Rising Sun. He also submitted several comedy, like a white man can’t jump and go to Wong Foo. His biggest success came with a blade in 1998. The film exceeded $ 150 million throughout the world and turned into a franchise. His role in the blade: Trinity in 2004 was the last before hiatus. Wesley sued studio and director, new line cinema and David S. Goyer for his salary and screen time. The lawsuit was resolved, but no party commented on the details of the settlement.
After that, the snipes appeared in several films directly to the video. The only exception was the best Brooklyn in 2009, which took him the Black Reel Award for the best supporting actors. He also appeared in Expendables 3, playing the death role of the doctor
Since he was 12 years old, Snipes trained martial arts. In Shotokan Karate he got 5th and Black Belt and 2 and in Hapkido. He also trained Capoeira, Kung Fu, and Jiu-Jitsu Brazil.
Snipe Wesley was married twice. He married April Dubois in 1985. The couple had one child, a Jelani son, who followed the footsteps of his father and became an actor. Wesley and April divorced in 1990. In 2003, Wesley remarried, to Nakyung “Nikki” Park, a painter. They have four children.
The most incident made Wesley’s career was his belief for tax evasion. In 2006, he and his two friends were charged by the IRS for tax fraud. The defense is that he is a “non-resident alien”, but the court thinks otherwise. Wesley was sentenced to three years in prison in 2010. He spent most of his sentence at the McKean Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. He came out in April 2013, serving the remaining time for the arrest of a house.
Wesley Snipes Net worth an estimated $ 12 million. Most come from his acting career, but he also has a security company with his brother, providing guard services to celebrities. He also has a film company, called Amon-ra. This produces a big and mighty road – Dr. John Henrik Clarke in 1996. During the September 11 attack, he lost an apartment at the World Trade Center.