Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is a an American actor, film producer, and martial artist. He has starred in action-adventures, thrillers, and dramatic feature films but is best known for his role as Blade in the Blade trilogy. In 1991, the actor formed a production company called Amen Ra Films and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. Snipes has been training in martial arts since age twelve, earnin...
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Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is a an American actor, film producer, and martial artist. He has starred in action-adventures, thrillers, and dramatic feature films but is best known for his role as Blade in the Blade trilogy. In 1991, the actor formed a production company called Amen Ra Films and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. Snipes has been training in martial arts since age twelve, earning the rank of fifth dan black belt in Shotokan Karate. He has also trained as a student of Capoeira under Mestre Jelon Vieira and in a number of other disciplines including various styles of kung fu. In 2006 Wesley was involved in a project called Gallowalkers, principle photography took place in Namibia in 2006. At which time he was arrested for tax evasion.Snipes also attended a few years at Southwest College in Los Angeles.
In 2008, Snipes was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file federal income tax returns, and...
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