Vin Diesel

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Mark Vincent (born July 18, 1967), better known by the stage name Vin Diesel, is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. Diesel is also the founder of the production companies OneRace Films and Tigon Studios. Diesel is distinguished by a bald head, muscular physique, and deep gravelly baritone voice.

1 History
2 Portfolio
- 2.1 Filmography
3 Additional reading
4 External links

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History

Born on July 18, 1967, in New York City, to Delora Vincent and an unknown father, Diesel is considered to be of Irish, Dominican, Mexican, African-American, Scottish and Italian descent. The 1994 short film Multifacial aimed to tell the story of Mike, a struggling actor, whose multi-ethnic appearance proves problematic in auditions. Diesel also reportedly claimed that his mother is descended from the Sinclairs of Scotland.

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Portfolio

Diesel was cast in 1998's Saving Private Ryan on the strength of Multi-Facial, and followed it up with Boiler Room (2000). He broke through to mainstream audiences with the 2001 film The Fast and the Furious and the 2002 film xXx. In 2004 he reprised his role as Pitch Black's Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick, and afterwards took on the titular role in Hannibal, as the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps by elephant to attack Rome.

During his teens, he performed breakdancing in an instructional video on the subject.

Diesel is also a long time fan and player of Dungeons & Dragons and other role playing games, a fact that he proudly states in various interviews. He occasionally places references to D&D in his films, such as in XXX where one of the tattoos on Xander Cage (Diesel's character) read "Melkor," the name of one of Diesel's old player characters. (Melkor is also the original name of the Satan-like character in The Silmarillion and other Tolkien stories.) He has also written the foreword to the commemorative book 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of D&D, which chronicles the history of D&D through various stories and essays written by various authors and developers.

Diesel has been rumored to be dating many celebrity females, currently the rumor is British model Lucy Clarkson but the actor has never confirmed this and has commented that he will concentrate on his career until the age of 40; at that point, he will consider marriage and family life. In the meantime, he owns a mastiff by the name of Roman. Image:Paul walker3.jpg

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Filmography

Year	Movie	Role	Other notes
2007	Hitman	Agent 47	Announced
2006	Rockfish	voiceover	Announced; animated
2006	Hannibal	Hannibal Barca	Announced
2006	Find Me Guilty	Jack DiNorscio	Post-Production
2005	The Pacifier	Shane Wolfe
2004	The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury	Richard B. Riddick
2004	The Chronicles of Riddick	Richard B. Riddick
2003	A Man Apart	Sean Vetter
2002	XXX	Xander Cage
2001	Knockaround Guys	Taylor Reese
2001	The Fast and the Furious	Dominic Toretto
2000	Pitch Black	Richard B. Riddick
2000	Boiler Room	Chris Varick
1999	The Iron Giant	The Iron Giant Voice
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Private Caparzo
1997	Strays	Rick
1994	Multi-Facial	Mike
1990	Awakenings	Hospital Orderly