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WESLEY SNIPES - BIOGRAPHY |
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| African American actor Wesley Snipes studied at New York's High School for the Performing Arts and State University of New York--Purchase. He began his performing career with Struttin Street Stuff, a streetcorner puppet troupe, supporting himself between jobs as a telephone installer. After experience in TV commercials, Snipes was cast in his first film, Wildcats, in 1985. Thanks to an appearance as a street punk in the Michael Jackson video Bad, Snipes was selected by director Spike Lee for an important role in New Jack City (1987). The following year, he endeared himself to non-fans of Lee with his performance as the talented but undisciplined ballplayer Willie Mays Hayes in Major League (1988). Snipes' early training in martial arts held him in good stead when he turned action-movie hero in Passenger 57 (1992). In 1989, Snipes won the Cable TV industry's ACE award for his performance in the HBO miniseries Vietnam War Story. Steadfastly refusing to be typed, Wesley Snipes caused millions jaws to drop when he showed up as a flashily apparelled female impersonator in 1995's To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar. In 1996, Snipes executive produced and narrated the biographical documentary John Herik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk. The following year, Snipes the actor won the Venice Film Festival Best Actor award for his performance as an adulterous husband in Mike Figgis' One Night Stand. Snipes took on a completely different role from any other in 1998 when he portrayed a pumped up vampire slayer who himself must have blood to survive in Blade. |
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