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Vin Diesel's Biography, from Yahoo! movies
Huge, hulking and with a neatly shaved skull and a voice that sounds like granite scraping on granite, New York-born Vin Diesel started his career as a child actor with the Theatre for the New City. After studying English at Hunter College, he began penning screenplays and making films. His short "Multi-Facial" debuted at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and his first full-length feature, "Strays" (1997) premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Written, co-produced, directed and starring Diesel, "Strays" was an ensemble drama about male friendship that many compared (sometimes unfavorably) with 1977's "Saturday Night Fever" and 1982's "Diner".
The deep-voiced, muscular actor landed a high profile supporting role as the tough New Yorker Private Carparzo in Steven Spielberg's acclaimed WWII drama "Saving Private Ryan" (1998). After voicing the title character in the delightful--if underperfoming--animated adventure "The Iron Giant" (1999) Diesel got his first taste of leading man success in director David Twohy's cult sci-fi film "Pitch Black" (2000), in which the actor played a convict who, after his starship crash lands on a hostile planet, proves to be the salvation for the survivors. He also was a strong presence in the ensemble of the Wall Street-centered thriller "Boiler Room" (2000), but his true breakout role came with his performance as hard-driving car thief and street gang racer Dominic Toretto (sample dialogue: "I live my life a quarter-mile at a time. For those 10 seconds, I'm free.") in the surprise summer blockbuster "The Fast and the Furious" (2001), in which New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell characterized Diesel as a "slacker Robert Mitchum, if that's not redundant."
In between writing and directing his second feature, "Doormen," based in part on his own experiences as a bouncer at NYC nightclubs, Diesel found time to star in his "The Fast and the Furious" helmer Rob Cohen's action yarn,"XXX" (2002), a box-office bonaza that was routinely panned by the critics but nevertheless solidified the actor's status as an heir apparent to A-list action stars like Stallone and Schwarzenegger; and in the mob comedy, "Knockaround Guys", playing tough-guy Taylor, a young mobster-in-training desperate to retrieve a bag full of stolen cash. Released in 2001 in Italy, under the title "Dangerous Company", "Knockaround Guys", an ensemble film in which Diesel co-stars alongside Barry Pepper, Seth Green, John Malkovich and Dennis Hopper, was released in the United States in 2002, in an attempt to cash in on Diesel's high-wattage star power as a result of "XXX"'s healthy box office earnings.
Instead of opting for a big payday on the sequel "Too Fast, Too Furious," which he declined to appear in, Diesel instead opted for features like the crime drama "A Man Apart" (2003), an action-lite tale that offered the actor prime opportunity to emote instead; many critics took minor swings at Diesel's sensitive side, but few could deny his strong screen presence and charisma, even in a middle-of-the-road film. The actor returned to the explosive, big budget world of sci-fi action when he reprised the role of "Pitch Black's" Richard Riddick for Twohy's inflated sequel "The Chronicles of Riddick" (2004). Taking a page from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Diesel next tried to expand his repertoire with a stint at broad comedy in Disney's "The Pacifier" (2005), playing a disgraced Navy SEAL charged with protecting the bratty brood of a deceased government scientist whose enemies are searching for his top secret experiment.
Also Credited As: Mark Vincent
Born: on 07/18/1967 in New York, New York
Job Titles: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Bouncer, Telemarketer (sold lightbulbs)
Significant Others
Companion: Liza Hernandez. rumored to be dating as of March 2003
Companion: Mariah Carey. rumored to be dating as of December 2002
Companion: Michelle Rodriguez. co-starred in "The Fast and the Furious"; dated in 2001
Companion: Pavla Hrbkova. born c. 1984; dating since February 2002; she had a small role in "xXx"; no longer together as of December 2002
Other FAQs.
1- He is not gay. As you can see, he has been dating women. This is just a pathetic rumor seeing as people would find it funny that a big masculine man was actually gay. Please do not try to suggest that he is negatively, because even if he was, we would still totally support him and love him for who he was.
2- His racial identity is very mixed. Part of his allure I think, is that no matter who you are, you feel you can identify with him. His father was African-American. His mother is believed to be mainly Italian.
3- You may have seen the breakdancing video of Vin on YouTube. This video was taken when he and his fraternal twin brother were 15. It was taken in the early 80s. Funny how time changes people :)
4- I'll add here as I find more...
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