Vin Diesel

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Vin Diesel at Comic-Con in July 2013

Vin Diesel (born July 18, 1967 as Mark Sinclair in Alameda County ) is an American actor , film producer , director and screenwriter .

Life

Vin Diesel was raised by his mother and stepfather in Greenwich Village , New York City . He never got to know his birth father. Although his stepfather was an acting teacher, he got his first role by chance: at the age of seven he and friends gained access to a theater in order to devastate it. They were caught in the act but were given a $ 20 fine and given the task of rehearsing a piece every day after school. This was followed by other roles on various New York theater stages, but they were poorly paid. Thanks to his muscle training, at the age of 17 he was able to earn some extra money as a bouncer for various clubs .

He dropped out of college after three years to go to Hollywood . Despite his theater experience, he was unsuccessful and came back to New York. His interest in the film, however, was unbroken, and after reading the book Feature Films at Used Car Prices ( feature films to used car prices) turned it your own movie, he also for the writer wrote, directed led and acted as lead actor. His debut Multi-Facial was shown at the Cannes Film Festival and delighted the critics. Through the film, Steven Spielberg became aware of him, who hired him for a role in Saving Private Ryan . That meant his breakthrough in Hollywood and starring in Pitch Black , The Fast and the Furious , Triple X and other action films . In April 2005, the first comedy with Vin Diesel was released: The Babynator . Sidney Lumet cast him in the lead role in the judicial drama Find Me Guilty . The film was in competition at the Berlinale 2006 .

In 1997 Diesel published his second directorial work with Strays - Lebe Dein Leben . He then only directed the short film Los Bandoleros (2009), which belongs to the The Fast and the Furious franchise, and an episode of the series The Ropes in 2012 .

In 2004, a computer game entitled The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was published, in which the history of both films can be re-enacted from the point of view of his character Riddick. It was co-developed by his self-founded entertainment company Tigon Studios. Due to the good sales of the game, the sequel The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena appeared on April 23, 2009 . The developers were again Tigon Studios. Almost simultaneously with the sequel Assault on Dark Athena , he published the computer game Wheelman in March 2009 together with Tigon Studios, in which he played the leading role.

At the end of July 2012, filming began for the sixth part of the Fast and Furious series, which premiered in May 2013. Diesel again acted as a lead actor and producer. He also shot the third part of the Riddick series, Riddick , which was released in 2013. In August 2013, Diesel was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame . It followed u. a. other parts of the Fast and Furious series, and as the voice of Groot, he has been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Guardians of the Galaxy from 2014 . In 2017 he was in xXx: The Return of Xander Cage , in 2020 he played the lead role in the comic book version Bloodshot .

Diesel is in a relationship with the Mexican model Paloma Jiménez , with whom he has three children. He has a twin brother, film editor Paul Vincent.

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a voice actor

As a film producer

As a director, producer and screenwriter

Others

  • As an allusion to the superhumanity or invincibility with which he is portrayed in most of his films, the Vin Diesel Facts have established themselves. Later, the similar but more widespread Chuck Norris Facts emerged , alluding excessively to the superiority of Chuck Norris .
  • Diesel named his youngest daughter "Pauline" after his late colleague and best friend Paul Walker .
  • His mother has English, German and Scottish roots.

German dubbing voice

Since the film Riddick: Chronicles of a Warrior (2004), Vin Diesel has only been dubbed in German by Martin Keßler. An exception was the film Der Babynator (2005), where it was spoken by Torsten Michaelis . Keßler had previously spoken to Diesel in the films Pitch Black - Planet der Finsternis (2000) and The Fast and the Furious (2001). In the MCU films, Diesel is spoken by Hans-Eckart Eckhardt in the role of the computer- animated Groot .

In his earlier films, Diesel was also dubbed by Marco Kröger and Charles Rettinghaus . Kröger spoke with him in Time of Awakening (1990), Strays - Lebe Dein Leben (1997 ), Saving Private Ryan (1998) and xXx - Triple X (2002). Rettinghaus lent him his voice in the films Risk - The Fastest Path to Wealth (2000), Knockaround Guys (2001) and Extreme Rage (2003).

Web links

Commons : Vin Diesel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark Sinclair, Born 18/07/1967 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org. Retrieved March 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ The Fast and the Feminine , article on sueddeutsche.de, accessed on April 19, 2011.
  3. ↑ Fast & Furious 6 on moviejones.de, accessed on September 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ Bory's Kit: 'Haywire' star Gina Carano in Talks to Join 'Fast & Furious 6' , Hollywood Reporter, April 23, 2012, accessed May 1, 2012.
  5. ↑ XiXi Yang: Tyrese Talks 'Fast Six' and Wants to be in 'Transformers 4'! ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / popstoptv.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PopStopTV.com, July 8, 2012, accessed July 24, 2012.
  6. ↑ Steve Barton: Vin Diesel Talks More Riddick , Drad Central, May 1, 2012.
  7. ↑ Vin Diesel lands on the street corner at n-tv.de, accessed on September 7, 2013
  8. ↑ Vin Diesel receives Hollywood Walk of Fame accolade on indianexpress.com, accessed September 7, 2013
  9. ↑ Spiegel online from March 23, 2015: Vin Diesel honors Paul Walker: A girl named Pauline
  10. ↑ The Vin Diesel and Chuck Norris Facts on 4q.cc
personal data
SURNAME Diesel, Vin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sinclair, Mark (maiden name); Sinclair Vincent, Mark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, film producer, film director, and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States