Actor, director, writer and producer Vin Diesel was born as Mark Sinclair or Mark Vincent on July 18, 1967, in New York City. He is very famous for his roles in The Chronicles of Riddick trilogy (2001–2013) and The Fast and the Furious film series (2001–present). He is the founder of the production companies One Race Films, Racetrack Records, and Tigon Studios.

His mother Delora Sherleen (Sinclair) Vincent is an astrologer and also worked as a psychologist. His adoptive father, a theater director, taught him theatre which made him more interested in acting. He has never met his biological father, and has stated that "all I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures". He has a fraternal twin brother, Paul Vincent, who is a film editor and also two sisters.

Around 2001, Diesel dated his Fast and the Furious co-star, Michelle Rodrigue. After that he Diesel has a daughter, Hania Riley (born 2008), and a son Vincent ( born 2010) with his girlfriend, Mexican model Paloma Jimenez.

He started acting at the age of 7 at the Theater for the New City and continued to work with the theater throughout his adolescence. When Mark was 17 years old he started working as a bouncer as he already had well-honed physique. It was at this time that Mark changed his name to Vin Diesel.

Vin enrolled as an English major at Hunter College completed his high school but dropped out after three years because he thought it was time for him to further his acting career.

Diesel wrote, produced, directed and starred in the short film Multi-Facial. The film was accepted and screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in 1995. His following film, a full-length feature called Strays (1997), was accepted at the Sundance Film Festival.

Diesel's work attracted the attention of noted director Steven Spielberg, who was then starting work on his World War II epic Saving Private Ryan (1998). Spielberg tailored a featured part for Diesel and following the movie's release, Diesel found big-budget opportunities coming his way.

In 2000, he turned in a noted performance in the otherwise-ignored Pitch Black. Despite the movie small budget and low-key marketing, Vin performance indeed earned him numerous of devoted fans and the recognition he deserves.

He then joined Ben Affleck and Giovanni Ribisi as a crooked stock-broker in Boiler Room. Since then his career began a meteoric rise with his receiving a more challenging roles, as the one he got in a 2001 action film "The Fast and The Furious". Above all, Vin was also well known for his action in a 2002 action movie entitled "xXx" pronounced "Triple X" in which he stars as Xander Cage.

“I was being offered three franchises at the same time - Pitch Black, xXx and The Fast And The Furious - and I had to choose. I couldn't do all three!"That was Vin's reasoning for passing on the sequels to xXx and The Fast And The Furious.

Diesel was very commited to every role he played. He even gained 30 pounds to portray real-life mobster Giacomo 'Jackie' DiNorscio in Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty (2006).

Best of all, as far as Diesel is concerned, is the possibility that he might get to direct, write and star in his dream project - a biopic of dark-ages military mastermind Hannibal who probably had a bald head and a deep voice.

"It's about overcoming insurmountable odds," he says. “It takes someone with enough of an ego to believe they can tell this story better than anybody else... They can't stop me. They can stomp me, kick me when I'm down... But they won't stop me. Cross your fingers for me, brother!"