There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.

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.