|
The following biography
is from
Wikipedia.org
“The
Free Encyclopedia.”
John
Wesley Snipes (born July 31, 1962 in Orlando,
Florida) is an American actor and producer. He is
probably best known for his role as the eponymous
vampire hunter in the Blade trilogy of movies.
Biography
Snipes
grew up in The Bronx and decided early on that he
wanted to be a dancer until he took some acting
classes. He started the High School for the
Performing Arts, but his mother divorced and they
moved back to Orlando. He graduated from a Florida
high school. While in Florida, Snipes did puppet
theatre, mime and musical theatre in competitions
and festivals. He then attended the State University
of New York College at Purchase and graduated with a
Bachelors of Fine Arts in 1985.
He did
dinner theater and regional productions. An agent
spotted Snipes and got him a role in Wildcats
(1986). He often plays tough characters in action
movies, and demonstrates considerable athletic and
fighting ablity. He is interested in martial arts,
including Karate, Kung Fu and Capoeira, and this
interest is reflected in the fact that many of his
movies make reference to Sun Tzu's Art of War.
Snipes
was married from 1985 to 1990 and has a son from
this marriage. His second child, a daughter born in
2001, was with Korean painter Nikki Park.
In
1991, Snipes formed the independent production
company Amen Ra Films. It co-produced the first two
Blade films and other titles that Snipes has starred
in.
In
2000, a security / paramilitary group called the
Royal Guard Of Amen-Ra, Inc.[1] (owned by Amen Ra
Films) filed BATF papers in moves to set up a
security training center next to the Tama-Re
compound of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors in
Georgia. The Nuwaubians claimed Snipes as one of
their own, though a spokeswoman for Snipes denied
any connection.
[Added by PSP: Wesley
Snipes was indicted for Tax Fraud in Oct. 2006]
* * * *
The
above biography has been copied in part or in whole
from an article on
Wikipedia.org
"The Free Encyclopedia." It has been modified under
the NGU Free Document License Section 5 in the
following manner: (1) All links within the article
have been removed, including text links such as
"[#]"; (2) The "[Edit]" text and link have been
removed [if you would like to update the article,
you may do so from the original page]; (3) the table
of Contents links and text have been removed; and
(4) all of the sections of the original article have
not been copied. All of the above text is available
under the terms of the
GNU Free Document License.
URL of Original Article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Snipes
Date Article Copied:
July 11, 2005
We
will try to replace this article with an original
biography in the near future, but we hope this will
be of help to our visitors in the mean time. |
