Wesley Snipes
Wesley Trent Snipes ( born July 31, 1962 in Orlando, Florida ) is an American actor.
Life
Wesley Snipes grew up with his mother in New York's South Bronx. At the "High School for the Performing Arts " in New York, he majored in dance, singing and acting. Later he studied at the " State University of New York" theater spectacle.
Although he received some supporting roles in films and television series, and participated in various stage plays on Broadway, he could not live by his profession as an actor, dancer and singer for a long time. Only after a gang leader 's role in bathroom, a music video of Michael Jackson, he fell to nationally and was quickly followed by a small role in the film American Football Wildcats, where he worked with Woody Harrelson for the first time. A larger role than it was trained by Klaus Maria Brandauer Boxtalent Roland in the movie Streets of Gold ( 1986) bestowed. There were other minor roles as a baseball player at the side of Charlie Sheen in The Cleveland Indians or as a police officer in King of New York - King between day and night with Christopher Walken.
In the early 1990s played the role of Snipes drug dealer Nino in New Jack City. He got good reviews opposite Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett for Spike Lee's Jungle Fever. The commercial breakthrough came in 1992 with the basketball movie White Men Can not Jump (again with Woody Harrelson ), in which he has to deal with money problems, and with the action thriller Passenger 57
Since Romancing him but no significant hit more, apart from Blade including sequels, succeeded. Meanwhile, Snipes is seen primarily in direct-to- DVD production, producing even films. For his performance in the film One Night Stand 1997 he was with the Volpi Cup, the Best Actor Award at the film festival in Venice, excellent.
On 12 October 2006 Snipes was indicted for tax fraud. He first withdrew the arrest warrant, but was arrested on 8 December 2006 in Florida; threatened him up to 16 years in prison. He is said to have paid a lot of 1999 to low income tax until 2004 and also fraudulently by misrepresentation almost twelve million U.S. dollars in repayments. On 24 April 2008 Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for tax fraud. However, he remained at large on bail until the appeal court had rendered its judgment.
On July 16, 2010, an appeals court in Atlanta rejected his appeal against the judgment vorinstanzliche. On 1 December 2010 a judge ruled that Snipes no longer should live in freedom and must arrive in prison on December 9. Thus Snipes ' request was to be allowed to remain at liberty, as long as the Supreme Court of the United States ruling on his appeal, rejected that. Snipes began his sentence on time in federal prison in northwest Pennsylvania McKean on. His dismissal was planned for the 19th of July, 2013, but was released early from prison on April 2, 2013, and remained until July 19, 2013 in house arrest.
In 2013 he was given at the request of action icon Sylvester Stallone offering a role in the third part of the trilogy Expendables, which he accepted.
Snipes had a brief relationship with the Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry. He runs martial arts and contributes inter alia, the fourth Dan ( Yondan ) in Shotokan Karate. He is married since 2003 to his second wife and father of five children.