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Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor and martial artist. Snipes has made films in a variety of genres, such as numerous thrillers, dramatic feature films, and comedies, though he is best known for his action films. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his work in The Waterdance (1992) and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in the film One Night Stand (1997). Born in Florida, Snipes had notable parts in the comedy film Major League (1989), the drama Mo' Better Blues (1990), and the crime drama King of New York (1990) before gaining prominence by playing a drug lord in the crime drama New Jack City (1991). He subsequently received more attention for the drama film Jungle Fever (1991), the sports comedy White Men Can't Jump (1992), and the action film Passenger 57 (1992). He has since starred in various genres, such as the comedy film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), the thriller The Fan (1996), and the drama film Down in the Delta (1998), but mostly established himself as an action star, portraying both heroes and villains in films such as Demolition Man (1993), Rising Sun (1993), Money Train (1995), and U.S. Marshals (1998). Also in 1998, he was cast as Eric Brooks/BBlade in the superhero film Blade, based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name, a role he went on to reprise in Blade II (2002), Blade: Trinity (2004), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Snipes had smaller roles during the 2000s and moved to direct-to-video action films before returning to the theatrical release with films such as Brooklyn's Finest (2009) and The Expendables 3 (2014). His television work includes multiple episodes in the drama series H.E.L.P. (1990), the action thriller crime drama series The Player (2015), and the drama limited series True Story (2021), as well as the romantic drama film Disappearing Acts (2000). He formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991, and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. Snipes has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5thdan black belt in Shotokan karate and a 2nddan black belt in Hapkido. He is credited with helping popularise martial arts in Hollywood and bringing martial arts to mainstream audiences, as well as contributing to the representation of Black actors in action roles, breaking stereotypes. In 2017, Snipes made his debut as a novelist with the urban fantasy supernatural adventure Talon of God. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Snipes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Secret agent and professional assassin Thomas Lanchester was commissioned by his boss to travel and search for members of a top-secret team of secret agents who would quickly train and, with their help, stop an army of space robots who can change their appearance into any living being. Their task is to stop the invasion and get everything back in order. The head of the invasion is the head of a terrorist organization, whose identity remains hidden from the audience and the main character, He named himself Snakebite. On the way, Thomas Lanchester meets a girl named Mary-Anne, He first made her a member of the team, and then He fall in love. Mary-Anne tries to escape from a big city and find a plan to save her mother. Thomas wants to help her, believes her, but she is a puppet in Snakebite’s play, Snakebite sent her to see Thomas, and if she would not do what he wanted, then he would kill her mother. Snakebite also gets into Thomas Lanchester's own head, sends him coded messages with the hidden numbers and plays a game of survival with him, letting him gradually find out who Snakebite is. If he doesn't find out in 14 days, then he'll kill Mary-Anne and destroy the whole world. Thomas took part in an experiment where a serum was injected into him, thanks to which he has superpowers, like Captain America. Mary-Anne is also different for unknown reasons, she has mastered a special magical power since childhood. Thomas finds out that Snakebite is his boss and killed him.
