Wesley in 2009

Wesley in 2009

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Wesley Trent Snipes
Born:
(now 49 years old)

In a nutshell [edit]

Wesley Snipes is an American actor, film producer and martial artist, best known for his role as Blade in the Blade trilogy.

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  • 1986
    film debut with Goldie Hawn in Wildcats
    1 !
  • 1986
    December 5: appeared on Miami Vice as a drug-dealing pimp
    2 !
  • 1987
    appeared as Michael Jackson's nemesis in the music video "Bad"
    2 !
  • 1989
    April 7: starred as Willie Mays Hayes in Major League
    3 !
  • 1992
    offered the role of Nick Curran in Basic Instinct, but turned it down due to commitments on another film
    -3 !
  • 1992
    Appeared in the comedy White Men Can't Jump
    3 !
  • 1992
    November 6: starred in Passenger 57
    2 !
  • 1993
    fined $1,000 and placed on two-year unsupervised probation in California after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge of carrying a loaded weapon
    -3 !
  • 1993
    October 8: starred in Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock
    2 !
  • 1994
    charged with reckless driving after he crashed his Kawasaki 1100cc motorcycle at the end of a thirty mile, 120 mile per hour chase with a Florida Highway Patrol officer and police helicopters
    -6 !
  • 1995
    roles in action film Money Train
    4 !
  • 1998
    March 1: roles in action film U.S. Marshals
    4 !
  • 1998
    October 1: Starred in the film Blade which has grossed over $150 million worldwide
    7 !
  • 2005
    June 1: detained in South Africa at Johannesburg International Airport for allegedly trying to pass through the airport with a fake South African passport
    -2 !
  • 2005
    October 1: sued New Line Cinema, and David S. Goyer (director of Blade: Trinity) claiming that the studio did not pay his full salary
    -1 !
  • 2006
    October 12: charged with one count of conspiring to defraud the United States
    -5 !
  • 2008
    February 1: acquitted on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the government and on the charge of filing a false claim with the government. Found guilty on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file Federal income tax returns
    -3 !
  • 2008
    April 24: sentenced to three years in prison for willful failure to file federal income tax returns
    -10 !
  • 2008
    July 16: US Court of Appeals upholds the ruling of the 36 month sentence for failing to file Federal income tax returns
    -2 !
  • 2010
    turn down the role of 'Hale Caesar' in The Expendables due to not being allowed to leave the United States without the court's approval
    -2 !

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