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Vin Diesel (born Mark Sinclair Vincent on July 18, 1967) is an American actor, writer, director, and producer, and is of Italian and African-American descent. Diesel is the founder of the production companies OneRace Films, Tigon Studios, and Racetrack Records. He is distinguished by a shaved head, athletic physique, tell-it-like-it-is attitude, and a deeply textured baritone voice.
BiographyDiesel made his stage debut at age seven in Theatre for the New City, which was produced in Greenwich Village and directed by Thomas Hinkerman. He remained involved with the theatre throughout adolescence, going on to attend the city's Hunter College, where his creative writing studies led him to begin screenwriting. Diesel became an active filmmaker in the early 1990s, first earning notice for the short film Multi-Facial, which was selected for screening at the 1995 Cannes Festival. He made his first feature-length film, 1997's Strays, an urban drama in which he was self-cast as a gang boss whose love for a woman inspires him to try to change his ways. Written, directed and produced by Diesel, the film was selected for competition at the 1997 Sundance Festival, leading to an MTV deal to turn it into a series.
CareerImage:VinD.pitchBlack01.jpg Vin Diesel as Riddick. Diesel's first film role was an uncredited appearance in the 1990 film Awakenings. He then produced, directed and starred in the 1994 short film Multi-Facial, a short semi-autobiographical film which follows a struggling actor stuck in the audition process, because he is regarded as either "too black" or "too white", or not black or white enough. He was then cast in Steven Spielberg's 1998 Oscar-winning film Saving Private Ryan on the poignancy of his performance in Multi-Facial, and followed it up with a major role in Boiler Room (2000) and his breakthrough role in Pitch Black (2000). He also earned critical acclaim for voice work as the title character in The Iron Giant (1999). He attained action hero superstardom 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. In 2005 he played a comedic role in the film The Pacifier to avoid being typecast as an action hero. In 2006 he played mobster Jack DiNorscio in Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty which was based on one of the longest mafia trials in American history. He has announced his intention to direct Hannibal the Conqueror, and star as the legendary Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps by elephant to attack Rome.
On March 8 2006, Diesel revealed he is working on a sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick.[1] He was attached to star as the popular video game assassin Codename 47 in the film adaptation of the Hitman video game series but has since dropped out. Timothy Olyphant is currently negotiating to play the role. Personal lifeAs a boy, Diesel was a skilled breakdancer who appeared in an instructional breakdancing video.[2] He appeared as a dancer in music videos for his cousin, rapper Kwamé.[3] Diesel was a player of Dungeons & Dragons and other role playing games, a fact he proudly mentions in various interviews.[4] He occasionally makes D&D references in his films, such as in xXx where one of the tattoos on his Xander Cage character reads "Melkor", the name of an older game character of Diesel's. (Melkor was the original name for the fallen angel character of the Tolkien Legendarium). It has been said that his portrayal of Richard Riddick in the Pitch Black series of movies and games is loosely based on this character, a Drow "witch-hunter" who was a loner, and that Diesel actually has the character's image tattooed on his arm. He has also written the foreword to the commemorative book 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of D&D, a collection of stories and essays which chronicles the history of D&D. Diesel is an avid fan of video games. He currently owns the game company, Tigon Studios, which produced The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, a successful Xbox and PC game, in which his likeness and voice are featured. At the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, it was announced that he will lend his likeness to the Xbox 360 and PS3 game The Wheelman. The game is also being developed concurrently as a film, which Diesel will also star in. He has a fraternal twin brother named Paul, and is good friends with rapper Ja Rule. Filmography
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The Vin Diesel "Fact" GeneratorA popular internet meme exists where jokes are created to suggest superhuman feats accomplished by Vin Diesel. These feats are always focused on portraying greatness, prowess, and "awesomeness" in a humorous way. A great number come from the Something Awful forums and continue to be cited in forum signatures and small compilations. Examples
The meme is not likely completely original, but it was the first to be widely popular, and the idea most likely originated in the 1990s with a series of Saturday Night Live sketches about a mythical Bill Brasky. These all owe lineage to tall tales such as those of Paul Bunyan. Similar sets of "facts" for Chuck Norris, Mr. T, Samoa Joe, and Jack Bauer later became common, based on the popularity of the Vin Diesel meme[citation needed]. References
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