== Kehidupan awal ==
Diesel terlahir sebagailahir Mark Sinclair<ref>{{cite dinews |url=http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/showbiz/10851668.Diesel_breaks_silence_over_Walker/ |work=[[AlamedaThe County,Press California(York)]] |agency=[[Press Association]] |publisher=[[Newsquest]] |location=York,<! Yorkshire | title=Diesel breaks silence over Walker| date= December 3, 2013| access-date=October 23, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006102309/http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/showbiz/10851668.Diesel_breaks_silence_over_Walker/ |archive-date=October He6, was2014| bornurl-status=live}}</ref> inpada Alamedatanggal County,18 CaliforniaJuli 1967,<ref>{{cite wherenews|url= hishttps://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2019/07/18/Famous-birthdays-for-July-18-Vin-Diesel-Kristen-Bell/8771563155558/|title=Famous motherbirthdays wasfor alsoJuly born.18: HeVin laterDiesel, movedKristen toBell|work=[[United NewPress York.International]]|date=July 18, 2019|access-date=August 7, 2019|archive-date=July 19, 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190719181941/https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2019/07/18/Famous-birthdays-for-July-18-Vin-Diesel-Kristen-Bell/8771563155558/|url-status=live|quote=Actor Vin Diesel in 1967 (age 52)}}</ref> di dalam [[Alameda County, California]],<ref>{{cite nameweb |title=cabirthrec1Mark Sinclair, Born 07/18/1967 in California |url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/mark_sinclair_born_1967_10041527 |website=CaliforniaBirthIndex.org |access-date=October 23, 2022}}</ref> bersamatempat ibunya juga lahir, meski kemudian pindah [[New York City]] dengan saudara kembarnya, Paul.<ref name=pulsnclair1>[http://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/paul_sinclair_born_1967_10041532 Paul Sinclair] birth record at California Birth Index. Retrieved on March 29, 2015.</ref><ref name="filmr">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/3/Vin-Diesel.html |title=Vin Diesel Biography (1967–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |accessdateaccess-date=September 8, 2010}}</ref> Ibunya, Delora Sherleen Vincent (née Sinclair) Vincent, adalah seorang [[astrologi|astrologer]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Vin Diesel: From nightclub bouncer to action hero |publisherwork=[[CNN ]] |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/12/people.cel.diesel/index.html |date=August 12, 2002}}</ref> Dia dibesarkan oleh ibu kulit putih dan ayah angkat Afrika-Amerika, Irving H. Vincent, seorang instruktur akting dan manajer teater.<ref name="filmr"/><ref name="jam2">{{cite web |url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/D/Diesel_Vin/2000/02/17/757953.html |title=VincentDiesel is running hot |publisher=Jam.canoe.ca |date=February 17, Irving2000 |access-date=September 8, 2010 H|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715004628/http://wwwjam.encyclopediacanoe.ca/Movies/Artists/D/Diesel_Vin/2000/02/17/757953.html |archive-date=July 15, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Pearlman|first=Cindy|title=Fame game stumps Diesel|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/article-1G2nl-2509918312search/vincentwe/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-irving0=0F55D489DD7CCF36&p_field_direct-h.html0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|work=encyclopedia.com[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |accessdatedate= August 9, 2002|access-date=June 29, 2013}}</ref> Diesel telah menyatakan bahwa dia berasal dari "etnis yang ambigu"."<ref name="ref3">{{cite news|last=Vincent| first=Mal |title='The Fast and the Furious' Vin Diesel Opens the Throttle in New Speed Movie and Joins an Elite 'Action-Star' Fraternity|work=[[The Virginian-Pilot]]| location = Norfolk, Virginia| date=June 22, 2001|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=VP&p_theme=vp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ECE0CA9279A8D03&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|accessdateaccess-date=March 2, 2008}}</ref> LatarIbunya belakangmemiliki ibunyaakar meliputi [[orangbahasa Inggris|Inggris]], [[orang Jerman|Jerman]], dan [[orang Skotlandia|Skotlandia]].<ref>{{cite news|title=VinDiesel explains why Glasgow was perfect to shoot Fast 6 |url=http://entertainment.stv.tv/film/225437-vin-diesel-explains-why-glasgow-was-perfect-to-shoot-fast-furious-6/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618152711/http://entertainment.stv.tv/film/225437-vin-diesel-explains-why-glasgow-was-perfect-to-shoot-fast-furious-6/ |dead-url-status=yesdead |archive-date=June 18, 2013 |date=May 15, 2013 |accessdateaccess-date=June 29, 2013 |df= }}</ref> Dia belum pernah bertemu ayah kandungnya, dan telahmengatakan menyatakan bahwaitu "semua yang saya tahu dari ibu saya adalah bahwa saya memiliki koneksi denganke berbagaibanyak budaya yang berbeda".;<ref name="jam1">{{cite webbook|chapter-url=httphttps://jambooks.canoegoogle.cacom/Movies/Artists/D/Diesel_Vin/2000/02/22/757952.html|titlebooks?id=Diesel mixes it up|publisher0nsTCgAAQBAJ&pg=Jam.canoe.caPA210|datechapter=FebruaryFrom 22,blaxploitation 2000to |accessdate=Augustmixploitation: 12,Male 2013}}</ref>leads Dieseland telahchanging mengidentifikasimixed dirirace sebagai "seseorang yang berwarna",<ref nameidentities|first="jam2">{{citeGregory webT.|urllast=http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/D/Diesel_Vin/2000/02/17/757953.html Carter|year=2008|title=DieselMixed is running hotRace Hollywood|publishereditor1-first=Jam.canoe.ca Mary|dateeditor1-last=FebruaryBeltrán|editor2-first=Camilla|editor2-last=Fojas|publisher=New 17,York 2000University Press|accessdatelocation=SeptemberNew 8, 2010York|isbn=978-0814799895|page=210}}</ref> danDiesel telah menyatakanpercaya bahwa hubungan orang tuanya akan menjadi ilegal di beberapa bagian Amerika Serikat karena undang-undang [[anti-perkawinanmiscegenation antarlaws sukuin atauthe bangsaUnited diStates|anti-miscegenation [[Amerika Serikatlaws]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?id=9219769|title=Vin Diesel receives star on Hollywood Walk of Fame|publisher=[[KABC-TV]]|date=August 26, 2013|author=Chu, Hanna|accessdateaccess-date=December 6, 2013|archive-date=2013-12-December 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212023134/http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?id=9219769|dead-url=yes}}</ref> Dia dibesarkan di [[New York City]] oleh ibu Kaukasia dan ayah tiri Afrika-Amerika, Irving H. Vincent, seorang instruktur akting dan manajer teater.<ref namestatus="filmr"/><ref name="jam2"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Pearlman|first=Cindy|title=Fame game stumps Diesel|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F55D489DD7CCF36&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date= August 9, 2002|accessdate=June 29, 2013dead}}</ref>
Diesel membuatmelakukan debut panggungnya pada usia tujuh tahun saatketika iadia tampil dalam permainan anak-anak '' Dinosaur Door '', yang ditulis oleh [[Barbara Garson]]. Drama tersebutitu diproduksi di [[Theater for the New City]] di New York's [[Greenwich Village]] New York. Keterlibatannya dalam drama itu terjadimuncul saatketika dia, saudara laki-lakinya, dan beberapa temannya telahmasuk memasukike ruang Teater untuk Kota Baru di Jane Street dengan maksud untuk membuatnya vandalistikmerusaknya. Mereka dihadapkandihadang oleh direktur artistik teater, Crystal Field, yang menawari mereka peran dalam pertunjukan mendatangyang daripadaakan datang alih-alih memanggil polisi.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Krulik |first1=Nancy E. |title=Vin Diesel: Fueled for Success |url=https://archive.org/details/vindieselfueledf00krul |url-access=registration |publisher=Simon Pulse, Gallery Books |date=November 1, 2002 |isbn=0689859821 |id=ISBN 978-0-689-85982-30689859823 |location= New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/vindieselfueledf00krul/page/14 14]}}</ref><ref name="ref1">{{cite news|last=Vincent|first=Mal|title=xXx|work=The Virginian-Pilot| location = Norfolk, Virginia|date=August 9, 2002|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=VP&p_theme=vp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F552F52A780C161&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|accessdateaccess-date=March 2, 2008}}</ref><ref name="ref2">{{cite news|last=Wloszcyna|first=Susan|title=Vin Diesel, driving on a tankful of cool|work=USA Today|date=June 4, 2004|url=httphttps://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-06-10-vin-diesel-cool_x.htm|accessdateaccess-date=March 2, 2008}}</ref> Diesel tetap terlibat dengan teater sepanjangselama masa remajaremajanya, kemudianmenghadiri bersekolah diNYC's [[Hunter College]] di NYC, di mana studinyastudi dalam penulisan kreatif membawanya untuk memulai penulisan naskahskenario. Dia telah mengidentifikasi dirinya sebagai aktor "''multi-faceted''segi"<ref name="alternetaktor.org">{{cite web |first=Noy |last=Thrupkaew |url=http://www.alternet.org/story/13863/ |title=The Multicultural Mysteries of Vin Diesel |publisher=Alternet.org |date=August 16, 2002 |accessdate=September 8, 2010 |archive-date=2010-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123103629/http://www.alternet.org/story/13863/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> sebagai akibat dari kesulitan awal menemukan peran karena warisan campurannya.<ref name="alternet.org"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_4_100/ai_76513111 |title=Vin Diesel Shifts Acting Career into High Gear In 'The Fast and the Furious' |publisher=Findarticles.com |date=July 9, 2001 |accessdateaccess-date=September 8, 2010 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100504201104/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_4_100/ai_76513111/ |archivedatearchive-date=May 4, 2010 |df= }}</ref>
Sinclair mulai menggunakan nama panggungnya "Vin Diesel" selama bekerja sebagai [[Bouncer (doorman)|bouncer]] di the New York nightclub [[Tunnel (New York nightclub)|Tunnel]], menginginkan nama yang terdengar lebih keras untuk pekerjaannya. Vin berasal dari nama belakang ibunya yang sudah menikah, Vincent, sedangkan nama belakang Diesel berasal dari teman-temannya karena kecenderungannya untuk energik.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thelist.com/446223/the-real-reason-vin-diesel-changed-his-name/ |title=The Real Reason Vin Diesel Changed His Name |work=The List |last=Fallo |first=Julie |date=June 24, 2021 |access-date=August 11, 2021 }}</ref>
== Filmografi ==
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