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All All. Sign In. Mark Sinclair. Vincent, an acting instructor and theatre manager, in an artists' housing project in New York City's Greenwich Village. He never knew his biological father. His mother is white with English, German, Scottish, and Irish ancestry , and his adoptive father is African-American; referring to his biological father's background, Diesel has said that he himself is "definitely a person of colour".

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His first break in acting happened by chance, when at the age of seven he and his friends broke into a theatre to vandalize it. From there, Vin's fledgling career progressed from the New York repertory company run by his father, to the Off-Off-Broadway circuit. At age seventeen and already sporting a well-honed physique, he became a bouncer at some of New York's hippest clubs to earn himself some extra cash.

It was at this time that he changed his name to Vin Diesel. Following high school, Vin enrolled as an English major at Hunter College, but dropped out after three years to go to Hollywood to further his acting career. Being an experienced theatre actor did not make any impression in Hollywood and after a year of struggling to make his mark, he returned to New York.