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
Has been dating Korean painter, Nikki Park, who is the mother of his second child, for years. The two do not have any future plans to marry. (3.16.02)
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.
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