VIN DIESEL Name: Vin Diesel Real Name: Vincent  Date of birth: July 18 1967  Age:37  Birth Place: New York Sign: Cancer with Scorpio rising Eyes: Brown / Hair: Black  Weight: 200 lbs/ Height: 6'2"   Marital Status: Single  Backround: Multicultural Other: Smokes / Earring Waist size 34 / Shoe size 12  Has a twin brother, Paul Vincent

Short Biography

A New York native, Diesel was raised by artsy parents in New York.
He's Italian and a lot of other things . He's nevermet his biological father but was raised since the age of 1 by a Black stepfather. Diesel grew up in Lower Manhattan with his sister and twin brother Paul, his stefather is an actor and mother an astrologer.
Diesel made his stage performing debut at the age of seven and, from that point on, he continued to work in New York theater. Diesel dropped out HunterCollege and soon began writing screenplays. His first film, the short "Multi-Facial" (which he wrote, starred in,directed and produced), screened at Cannes in1995; his first full-length feature, "Strays"(which he starred in, directed and produced),competed at Sundance in 1997 and led to a deal with MTV to adapt it into a series. Upon viewing "Multi-Facial," Steven Spielberg created the role of Private Carpazo for Diesel in his Oscar-winning"Saving Private Ryan." (Diesel, along with his fellow "Ryan" actors,were nominated for a SAG Award.
Most recently, Diesel was the voice of the title character in the critically admired animated family film The Iron Giant and starred in the sci-fi film Pitch Black. He will next be seen in Knockaround Guys with John Malkovich, Dennis Hopper and Seth Greenas well as Ben Younger's "The Boiler Room," opposite Ben Affleck and Giovanni Ribisi. Diesel is also currently preparing several projects as a writer/director.

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The son of an actor-theater teacher and an astrologer,

this former Manhattan, N.Y., bouncer learned long ago that the muscular moniker "Vin" stood a better chance of being taken seriously than his real name, Vincent.

Diesel's bouncing abilities didn't catch Tinseltown's eye though, the two film shorts he directed and starred in did. A sometime English major at New York City's Hunter College, Diesel dropped out to make Multi-Facial, a tale of a struggling actor; the film premiered at Cannes in 1995. Diesel took Sundance by storm two years later with his $47K project Strays, an ensemble drama about male friendship in which he played a drug-pushing Casanova who is ensnared by a sweet girl-next-door type. The Sundance Web site reviewed the film as a "self-described multicultural Saturday Night Fever" that "digs the dirt out of the fearsome burden of masculinity and the arduous road to change."

A certain Mr.Steven Spielberg took a particular shine to Diesel after seeing Multi-Facial and subsequently created a role for the actor in 1998's Saving Private Ryan. Needless to say, Diesel's Pvt. Adrian Caparzo was doomed from the start, but his own career was just coming to life. Spielberg even let Diesel shoot second-unit on Ryan. "

In the wake of the WWII drama, Diesel chose two widely diverse parts to add to his resume. First, he provided the voice of the well-intentioned title robot in Warner Bros.' 1999 animated adaptation of British poet Ted Hughes' The Iron Giant. He then opted for a role in the sleeper sci-fi hit Pitch Black, playing futuristic anti-hero Riddick, a marooned psychopathic killer who must save the lives of his fellow castaways in order to rescue himself from nocturnal alien predators.

Diesel followed up Black with Boiler Room, a Gen-X version of Wall Street that featured Giovanni Ribisi and Ben Affleck. Boiler director Ben Younger explained his casting of Diesel in the role of Chris, one of the few good guys in the film's corrupt brokerage firm.

Diesel's tough side proved to be a detriment when it reportedly got him fired from another recent release, Reindeer Games. According to Premiere magazine, the actor told Games director John Frankenheimer that he wouldn't appear in a sleeveless T-shirt, saying, "I only show my guns in Vin Diesel films." His demands also included extensive rewriting to beef up his role. Frankenheimer booted him from the production before filming had begun.

In addition to rewriting Doormen, a script about his tenure as a bouncer, Diesel will doubtless be making the media rounds by year's end for Knockaround Guys. In it, Diesel will play one of four mob sons who join forces to retrieve some money from a small Montana town. Dennis Hopper, John Malkovich, and Seth Green also star, date to be released is uncertain.

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