Wesley Snipes Highlights

  • 2004: Once again portrayed a vampire hunter in "Blade: Trinity"; also produced
  • 2002: Reprised role (also produced) in "Blade II"
  • 2000: Produced and starred in the thriller "The Art of War"
  • 1998: Played an African-American superhero who battles a group of blood-sucking vampires in "Blade"
  • 1998: Made his network TV debut as producer and star of "Futuresport" (ABC)
  • 1998: Cast as the escaped con purused by Tommy Lee Jones in "U.S. Marshall"
  • 1998: Produced Che-Kirk Wong's "The Big Hit"; film starred Mark Walhlberg and Lou Diamond Phillips
  • 1998: Produced and acted in Maya Angelou's directorial debut, "Down in the Delta"
  • 1998: Received star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (August 21)
  • 1997: Played a detective investigating "Murder at 1600"
  • 1997: Won praise for his turn as an unfaithful husband in "One Night Stand"
  • 1996: Was one of several prominent showbiz figures to provide funding for Lee's "Get on the Bus"
  • 1996: Executive produced (also narrated) the documentary, "John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk"
  • 1996: Starred opposite Robert De Niro in "The Fan"
  • 1995: Donned drag to play Noxeema Jackson in "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar"
  • 1995: Reteamed with Harrelson for "Money Train"
  • 1993: Co-starred with Sean Connery in the film adaptation of Michael Crichton's "Rising Sun"
  • 1992: Reteamed with Woody Harelson in Ron Shelton's "White Men Can't Jump"
  • 1991: Played merciless drug lord Nino Brown in Mario Van Peebles' controversial "New Jack City"
  • 1991: Reteamed with Lee for the interracial romance "Jungle Fever"
  • 1990: Cast as a regular in the short-lived ABC cop series, "H.E.L.P."
  • 1988: TV debut in the HBO anthology miniseries, "Vietnam War Story"
  • 1988: Turned down a small role in Lee's "Do the Right Thing" for the larger part of Willie Mays Hays in "Major League" (1989)
  • 1987: Appeared as Michael Jackson's rival gang leader in the Martin Scorsese-directed music video "Bad" (only seen in the long version of the video)
  • 1986: Film debut in the Goldie Hawn vehicle "Wildcats"; first collaboration with Woody Harrelson
  • 1985: Broadway debut in "The Boys of Winter"
  • 1977: Moved back to Orlando, Florida, with his mother
  • 1963: Moved to the Bronx at age one
  • 1900: Portrayed jazz saxaphonist Shadow Henderson in Lee's "Mo' Better Blues"
  • Appeared in the East Harlem production of "The Me Nobody Knows"
  • Co-founded Struttin' Street Stuff, a theater troupe which performed street and puppet theater in Orlando
  • Appeared in commercials for Levi's 501 jeans and Coca-Cola Classic
  • Appeared in "The Wiz" with Theatre on Park Dinner Theatre in Orlando
  • Founded Amen Ra Films in conjunction with Fox