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Trivia
Birth name: Wesley Snipes Date of birth:
31 July 1962 Place of birth: Orlando, Florida, USA Height:
5' 10" (1.78 m) Spouse:
Nikki Park (March 2003 - present) 2 children, April (1985 - 1990) (divorced) 1 child.
Characters in his films, usually his own
characters, frequently quote the literary classic "The Art of
War," written by Sun Tzu around 500 B.C.E., which is widely
regarded as the single best resource for training military special
forces groups worldwide.
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New
Actors of 1990" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 42.
Despite the fact that Mr. Snipes does not
often acknowledge it, he did attend the State University of New York at
Purchase and graduated with a BFA in 1985. As the most famous alumni of
this school, he joins the other notables SUNY Purchase graduates who
include: Parker Posey, Sherry Stringfield, Melissa Leo, Stanley Tucci,
directors Hal Hartley & Nick Gomez, and producers Todd Baker and Bob
Gosse.
He appeared in Michael Jackson's Bad (1987)
(V) music video. You can only see him in the full length, 16-minute,
black & white/color music video. It is usually shortened down to
just the color segment for television.
Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50
Most Beautiful People in the world. [1991]
He is a 5th Degree Black Belt
Practices Capoeira, Brazilian martial arts.
Publicly blasted John Singleton for not
casting him in the title role of the updated version of Shaft (2000).
Snipes claims the film would have made twice its $60 million+ earnings
had he been cast.
Insisted that the role of Mimi (played by
Ming-Na), his character's wife in the film One Night Stand (1997), be
played by an Asian woman in order to "push the boundaries of
racial-sexual taboos." Snipes's character, Max, is a sucessful
Black commercial director who has an extramarital affair with an
attractive blonde ('Natassja Kinski' ).
Father of son Jelani (born 1988).
daughter Iset born July 2001
Married Korean painter Nikki Park, who is
the mother of his two youngest children, in March, 2003. Snipes spends a
lot of time in Park's home country which he call his "second
home."
In his big action film, Passenger 57 (1992)
you see him reading a book on the plane. The book is The Art of War
which is the same title as a movie that he starred in years later,
though unrelated to it.
He has mastered numerous martial arts forms
including the Brazillian street fighting form capoeira
His apartment was destroyed by the collapse
of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. He happened to have been
delayed at the gym where he was working out, otherwise he would have
been home at that moment.
Lives in Marina del Rey, California.
Is a fanatical music lover and collector and
owns more than 1,000 LPs and 4,000 CDs.
Shares the same birthday with Michael Klesic,
J.K. Rowling, Ben Chaplin, Barry Van Dyke, Emilia Fox and Loren Dean.
Father retired from United States Air Force
Reserve's 315AW Charleston Air Force Base April 1998 with the rank of
MSGT.
Has the same birthday as Dean Cain, J.K.
Rowling, Michael Klesic and Geoffrey Lewis. |
