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Vin Diesel<\/a><\/strong> (born July 18, 1967, Alameda county, California, U.S.) American actor and producer who was best known for his action films, most notably the Fast and Furious series.<\/p>

Sinclair grew up in New York City with his mother, fraternal twin brother, and African American stepfather, Irving Vincent, a theatre manager who provided him with some of his first stage roles. While still in his teens, he worked as a club bouncer and took the name Vin Diesel. He attended Hunter College but dropped out to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles.<\/p>

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Vin Diesel Info<\/strong><\/h2>

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Born<\/strong><\/td>18 July 1967 (age 56 years), Alameda County, California, United States<\/td><\/tr>
Parents<\/strong><\/td> Irving Vincent, Delora Vincent<\/td><\/tr>
Partner<\/strong><\/td> Paloma Jim\u00e9nez (2007\u2013)<\/td><\/tr>
Siblings<\/strong><\/td> Paul Vincent, Samantha Vincent, Tim Vincent<\/td><\/tr>
Children<\/strong><\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>
Education<\/strong><\/td> Hunter College, City University of New York<\/td><\/tr>
Place Of Birth<\/strong><\/td>Alameda County, California<\/td><\/tr>
Home Town<\/strong><\/td>Greenwich Village, New York<\/td><\/tr>
Current City<\/strong><\/td>Hollywood Hills, California<\/td><\/tr>
Nationality<\/strong><\/td>American<\/td><\/tr>
Marital Status<\/strong><\/td>Married<\/td><\/tr>
Hobbies<\/strong><\/td>cooking, playing video games, snowboarding and watching movies<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>

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Vin Diesel<\/strong> Early life<\/strong><\/h2>

On July 18, 1967, Diesel was born Mark Sinclair in Alameda County, California, the same county where his mother was born. However, he and his fraternal twin brother, Paul, later relocated to New York City. Delora Sherleen Vincent, n\u00e9e Sinclair, is his mother and an astrologer. Irving H. Vincent, an African-American theater manager and acting coach, reared him along with his white mother. According to Diesel, he is “of ambiguous ethnicity.” His mother is of Scottish descent. Diesel has never met his biological father and claims that “all I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures”; Diesel thinks that anti-miscegenation laws would have made his parents’ relationship illegal in some parts of the United States.<\/p>

At the age of seven, Diesel made his stage debut in Barbara Garson’s children’s play Dinosaur Door. The drama was performed at Greenwich Village’s Theater for the New City in New York. His involvement in the play began when he broke into the Jane Street Theater for the New City with the intention of vandalizing it, along with his brother and a few pals. Rather than calling the police, Crystal Field, the artistic director of the theater, approached them and offered them jobs in the upcoming production. Throughout his teenage years, Diesel continued to be active in theater. He then attended Hunter College in New York City, where his studies in creative writing inspired him to start creating screenplays. He calls himself an actor with “multi-faceted” qualities.<\/p>

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While working as a bouncer at the New York nightclub Tunnel, Sinclair adopted the stage name “Vin Diesel” because he wanted a more masculine moniker for his line of work. Vin is derived from the married last name of his mother, Vincent, although his friends gave him the surname Diesel because of his propensity for exuberance.<\/p>

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Vin Diesel<\/strong> Career<\/strong><\/h2>

In 1990, Diesel made his screen debut as an uncredited extra in the drama Awakenings. Diesel made the decision to make his own short film in order to raise money for his feature film debut after struggling for several years to land acting opportunities. In 1994, he penned, produced, directed, and starred in the semi-autobiographical short drama film Multi-Facial, which followed a struggling multiracial actor who was stranded in the audition process. The movie was chosen to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. Vin Diesel worked as a bouncer and telemarketing selling lightbulbs in addition to becoming an actor.<\/p>

Diesel debuted on cinema as an uncredited extra in the drama Awakenings in 1990. After failing to get acting roles for several years, Diesel decided to develop his own short film in order to raise money for his feature film debut. The semi-autobiographical short drama film Multi-Facial, which centered on a struggling multiracial actor stuck in the audition process, was written, produced, directed, and starred by him in 1994. In 1995, the film was selected to be presented at the Cannes Film Festival. Before becoming an actor, Vin Diesel worked as a bouncer and in telemarketing, selling lightbulbs.<\/p>

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Diesel raised money to shoot his debut full-length picture, Strays, an urban drama in which he portrayed a gang boss who is motivated to try and change by a woman’s love. Diesel wrote, produced, and directed the movie, which was accepted for competition at the 1997 Sundance Festival. This led to an MTV arrangement to develop the movie into a series, but the project was never developed. After watching Diesel in Multi-Facial, director Steven Spielberg saw him and decided to cast him in a small role as a soldier in his Oscar-winning war movie Saving Private Ryan from 1998. Diesel’s first significant Hollywood film role was this one. He voiced the lead character in the animated picture The Iron Giant in 1999.<\/p>

Alongside Giovanni Ribisi and Ben Affleck, Diesel played a supporting role in the drama thriller Boiler Room in 2000. Later that year, he landed his big break as the science-fiction movie Pitch Black’s anti-hero Riddick.<\/p>

With his roles as Dominic Toretto in the street racing action movie The Fast and the Furious (2001) and as Xander Cage in the action thriller XXX (2002), Diesel rose to fame as an action hero. He declined the offer to return to his parts in XXX: State of the Union (2005) and 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), the sequels. Rather, he opted to return to the character of Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), a box office bomb given the substantial budget. <\/p>

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Vin Diesel<\/strong> Net Worth<\/strong><\/h2>

Vin Diesel’s net worth is\u00a0estimated\u00a0to be $205 million\u2014a number that will likely rise after the premiere of\u00a0Fast X\u00a0<\/em>on May 19.<\/p>

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