The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.

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.