Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor as well as film producer and martial artist. His film credits include Major League (1989), New Jack City (1991), White Men Can't Jump (1992), Passenger 57 (1992), Rising Sun (1993), Demolition Man (1993), To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), U.S. Marshals (1998), The Expendables 3 (2014), Coming 2 America (2021), and the Blade film trilogy (1998-2004) as Blade. In television, he is known for his role in The Player (2015). Snipes was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his work in The Waterdance (1992) and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his role in the film One Night Stand (1997). In 1991, he established Amen-Ra Films and a subsidiary named Black Dot Media to develop projects for television and film. He has been practicing martial arts since the age of 12 and earned a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd dan black belt in Hapkido.
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