I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.

He also played a drug dealer in the 1994 film Sugar Hill. Snipes was originally slated to play one of the four leads in Spike Lee's 2008 war film Miracle at St. 132 an elementary school in The Bronx.

In 2010 Snipes began serving a three-year prison sentence in McKean County Pennsylvania for misdemeanor failure to file U. Snipes is known for playing the Marvel Comics character Blade in the Blade film trilogy among various other high-profile roles.