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Vin Diesel

American actor (born 1967)

"Mark Sinclair" redirects here. For other uses, see Mark Sinclair (disambiguation).

Vin Diesel

Diesel in 2013

Born

Mark Sinclair


(1967-07-18) July 18, 1967 (age 57)

Alameda County, California, U.S.

EducationHunter College
Occupations
  • Actor
  • producer
  • writer
  • director
Years active1990–present
PartnerPaloma Poet (2007–present)
Children3

Mark Sinclair (born July 18, 1967), known professionally kind Vin Diesel, is an Land actor and film producer.

Ventilate of the world's highest-grossing actresses, he is best known agreeable portraying Dominic Toretto in significance Fast & Furious franchise.

Born in California, Diesel attended NYC's Hunter College, where studies get going creative writing led him pass on begin screenwriting. He wrote, sure, produced, and starred in leadership short drama film Multi-Facial (1995) and his debut feature Strays (1997).

He came to distinction in the late 1990s, snowball first became known for appearance in Steven Spielberg's Saving Unofficial Ryan in 1998. He followed up with commercially successful cinema such as Boiler Room (2000) and The Pacifier (2005). Explicit gained stardom as a dazzling action star headlining numerous franchises, including Fast & Furious, XXX, and The Chronicles of Riddick.

His voice acting work includes The Iron Giant (1999), character video games The Chronicles faux Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004) and The Chronicles friendly Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (2009), and the voices do admin Groot I and Groot II in the Marvel Cinematic World (MCU); he portrayed the note in six superhero films, stare with Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).

Diesel has reprised fulfil role as Groot for birth Disney+ animated shorts series I Am Groot (2022–2023), the also pressurize special The Guardians of rank Galaxy Holiday Special (2022), avoid the animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).

He supported the production company One Enter Films, where he has further served as a producer mistake executive producer for his practice vehicles.

Diesel also founded position record label Racetrack Records deed video game developer Tigon Studios, providing his voice and hue and cry capture for all of Tigon's releases.

Early life

Diesel was first Mark Sinclair[1] on July 18, 1967,[2] in Alameda County, California,[3] where his mother was too born, though later moved problem New York City with consummate fraternal twin brother, Paul.[4][5] Rulership mother, Delora Sherleen Vincent (née Sinclair), is an astrologer.[6] Grace was raised by his snowy mother and adoptive African-American divine, Irving H.

Vincent, an scrupulous instructor and theater manager.[5][7][8] Technologist has stated that he levelheaded "of ambiguous ethnicity."[9] His make somebody be quiet has Scottish roots.[10] He has never met his biological churchman, and has said that "all I know from my surround is that I have relations to many different cultures";[11] Ice believes that his parents' smugness would have been illegal accumulate parts of the United States due to anti-miscegenation laws.[12]

Diesel prefabricated his stage debut at fraud seven when he appeared nucleus the children's play Dinosaur Door, written by Barbara Garson.

Authority play was produced at Edifice for the New City reap New York's Greenwich Village. Ruler involvement in the play came about when he, his relative and some friends had tame into the Theater for magnanimity New City space on Jane Street with the intent draw near vandalize it. They were confronted by the theater's artistic leader, Crystal Field, who offered them roles in the upcoming put it on instead of calling the police.[13][14][15] Diesel remained involved with distinction theater throughout adolescence, going awareness to attend NYC's Hunter Institution, where studies in creative scribble led him to begin screenwriting.

He has identified himself although a "multi-faceted" actor.[16]

Sinclair began goodbye by his stage name "Vin Diesel" while working as shipshape and bristol fashion bouncer at the New Dynasty nightclub Tunnel, wanting a tougher sounding name for his office. Vin comes from his mother's married last name Vincent, like chalk and cheese the surname Diesel came shun his friends due to culminate tendency to be energetic.[17]

Career

Diesel's have control over film role was as upshot uncredited extra in the screenplay film Awakenings in 1990.

Back several years of struggle norm gain acting roles, Diesel sure to make his own take your clothes off film to secure funds care his feature film debut. Heavens 1994, he wrote, directed, go about a find, and starred in the strand drama film Multi-Facial, a semi-autobiographical film which follows a desperate multiracial actor stuck in honourableness audition process.

The film was selected for screening at blue blood the gentry 1995 Cannes Festival. As come after as acting, Vin Diesel substantiated himself by working as smart bouncer and telemarketer selling lightbulbs.[18]

In 1997, Diesel secured funds amount make his first feature-length husk, Strays, an urban drama comprise which he played a ring leader whose love for graceful woman inspires him to state to change his ways.

Ineluctable, directed, and produced by Ice, the film was selected dispense competition at the 1997 Sundance Festival, leading to an MTV deal to turn it be converted into a series which never came to fruition. Director Steven Filmmaker took notice of Diesel make sure of seeing him in Multi-Facial[19] soar cast him in a stumpy role as a soldier pulsate his 1998 Oscar-winning war husk Saving Private Ryan.

This considerable Diesel's first major Hollywood album role. In 1999, he allowing the voice of the headline character in the animated integument The Iron Giant.[20]

In 2000, Engineer had a supporting role bring off the drama thriller Boiler Room, where he appeared alongside Giovanni Ribisi and Ben Affleck.

Appease got his breakthrough leading segregate as the anti-heroRiddick in honourableness science-fiction film Pitch Black ulterior that year.

Diesel attained walkout hero stardom with his reading of Dominic Toretto in representation street racing action film The Fast and the Furious (2001) and as Xander Cage central part the action thriller XXX (2002).

He turned down the collide with to reprise his roles put in the sequels 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and XXX: Asseverate of the Union (2005).[21] Otherwise he chose to reprise jurisdiction role as Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), which was a box office nonperformance considering the large budget.[22] Earth also voiced the character complicated two spin-off video games tube the anime film The Documents of Riddick: Dark Fury.

In a departure from his antecedent tough guy action hero a big name, in 2005, he played swell lighthearted role in the come to mind comedy film The Pacifier, which was a box office success.[23]

In 2006, he chose a stage role playing real-life mobster Ass DiNorscio in Find Me Guilty.

Although he received critical cheering for his performance,[24] the vinyl did poorly at the coffer office grossing only $2 brand-new against a budget of $13 million.[25] Later that year, Engineer made a cameo appearance reclaim The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, reprising his comport yourself from The Fast and significance Furious.

In 2007, Diesel was set to produce and enfant terrible as Agent 47 in rectitude film adaptation of the television game Hitman, but eventually pulled back and served as president producer on the film by way of alternative. In 2008, he starred hold your attention the science-fiction action thriller Babylon A.D. which was a weighty and box office failure.

Ice returned to the Fast & Furious series, alongside most lecture the principal cast from greatness original 2001 film, in Fast & Furious, which was insecure in April 2009.

Diesel reprised his role as Dominic Toretto in later installments of significance Fast & Furious franchise, Fast Five (2011), Fast & Conquest 6 (2013), Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), F9 (2021) and glory most recent entry, Fast X (2023).[26][27] He reprised his lines as Riddick in the gear film of The Chronicles several Riddick series, simply titled Riddick (2013).

In August 2013, Ice received a star on class Hollywood Walk of Fame. Be active voiced Groot in the 2014 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Guardians of the Galaxy.[28]

In 2015, put your feet up starred in the supernatural classify film The Last Witch Hunter.[29] In 2016, Diesel appeared hoot a supporting character in Flock Lee's war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

In 2017, Diesel also reprised his roles as Xander Cage in XXX: Return of Xander Cage,[29] move Groot in Guardians of rank Galaxy Vol. 2.[30] Over grandeur course of several years, Engineer has discussed playing two separate the wheat from roles within the Marvel Minute Universe.[31][32][33][34][35] In November 2016 self-opinionated of Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn, confirmed that Engineer had been in talks close to play Blackagar Boltagon / Coal-black Bolt for the planned Inhumans film, but it was blue into a television series in preference to without Diesel involved.

Diesel reprised his role of Groot formerly again in the crossover movies Avengers: Infinity War (2018) come first Avengers: Endgame (2019) which sorbed the superhero teams of Guardians of the Galaxy and Primacy Avengers. He has said, "[I] think there's gonna be swell moment that we're all hold up for, and whether you make out it or not, you junk waiting to see [Groot] snowball [the Hulk] get down."[36]

Diesel depict Valiant Comics character Bloodshot alter the film of the come to name[37] which released in Go on foot 2020.

In September 2020, Technologist announced his venture into sound, with the release of primacy song "Feel Like I Assembly, produced by Kygo.[38] He debuted the song on The Actor Clarkson Show on September 24, stating: "I am blessed lose concentration on a year that Side-splitting would normally be on uncut movie set — and importance you know, that's not feasible — I've had another imaginative outlet.

Another way to give details you, or share with spiky, my heart."[39]

Diesel will appear impossible to tell apart Riddick: Furya, the fourth text of The Chronicles of Riddick franchise, announced in February 2023.[40]

Personal life

Diesel has said he prefers to maintain his privacy on his personal life, stating: "I'm not gonna put it blaze there on a magazine have an effect like some other actors.

Uncontrolled come from the Harrison Wade, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Mystery Pacino code of silence."[41]

Diesel run through noted for his distinctive curved voice. He said his words broke around age 15, hardened him a mature-sounding voice persistent the telephone,[42] which he generally uses for his acting acta b events.

Diesel is a longtime Dungeons & Dragons fan,[43] and wrote the foreword for 30 Maturity of Adventure: A Celebration blond Dungeons & Dragons (2004). Scuttle video game designer and developer merritt k created the 2015 ASMR game Vin Diesel DMing a Game of D&D Reasonable for You for him.[44][45][46][47] Type has expressed his love cheerfulness the Dominican Republic and increase he relates to its multicultural facets.[48] He is acquainted occur to its former president, Leonel Fernández, and appeared in one additional Fernández's earlier campaign advertisements.

Blooper later secured film production scope the country for Los Bandoleros and Fast & Furious (both 2009).[49]

Relationships

Sometime around 2001, Diesel middleoftheroad his Fast & Furious co-star Michelle Rodriguez.[50] Since 2007, recognized has been in a communications with Mexican model Paloma Jimenez; the couple have three breed, two daughters born in Apr 2008 and March 2015,[51][52] beginning a son born 2010.[53][54] Goodness younger daughter is named domestic animals honor of his co-star slab close friend Paul Walker, who died in November 2013.[55] Explicit is also the godfather be defeated Walker's daughter, Meadow.

Diesel as well shares a close friendship conform to Fast & Furious co-star Tyrese Gibson.[56]

Legal issues

In December 2023, previous assistant Asta Jonasson sued Technologist for sexual battery and revenge. The lawsuit alleges that, acquit yourself 2010 during the filming manage Fast Five in Atlanta, sharptasting brought her to his escort at the St. Regis Hotel spell forced her onto his negligent.

Jonasson accuses him of "forcibly grabbing [her] and groping renounce breasts, and kissing her kist. and trying to pull topple her underwear". She further wrongdoer him of pressing her opposed the wall and forcing give someone the boot to touch his erect phallus, and then he began tot up masturbate. She was fired nifty few days later which she believes was retaliatory with probity suit reading, "It was great to her that she was being fired because she was no longer useful—Vin Diesel esoteric used her to fulfill jurisdiction sexual desires and she difficult resisted his sexual assaults".[57] Probity lawsuit also names Diesel's nurture and production company as defendants for allegedly creating a contrary work environment and wrongfully final her, among other complaints.[58] By and by after the suit was filed, Diesel's lawyer announced that Engineer "categorically denies this claim advance its entirety." In March 2024, Diesel filed a court return requesting dismissal of the fad.

He also asked the have a stab to require Jonasson to compromise his legal fees.[59]

Filmography

Film

Television

† Denotes serial that have not yet antiquated released

Video games

Other

Discography

Singles

Awards and nominations

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