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Vin Diesel
Actor, Producer, Director, WriterBorn July 18, 1967 (58 years)
Mark Sinclair (born July 18, 1967), known professionally as Vin Diesel, is an American actor and film producer. One of the world's highest-grossing actors, he is best known for portraying Dominic "Dom" Toretto in the Fast & Furious franchise.
Born in California, Diesel attended Hunter College in New York City, where studies in creative writing led him to begin screenwriting. He wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the short drama film Multi-Facial (1995) and his debut feature, Strays (1997). He came to prominence in the late 1990s. First, he gained recognition for his appearance in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan in 1998. He followed up with commercially successful films such as Boiler Room (2000) and The Pacifier (2005). He gained stardom as a leading action star headlining numerous franchises, including Fast & Furious, XXX, and The Chronicles of Riddick.
His voice acting work includes The Iron Giant (1999), the video games The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004) and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (2009), and the voices of Groot I and Groot II in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU); he portrayed the characters in six superhero films, beginning with Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Diesel has reprised his role as Groot for the Disney+ animated shorts series I Am Groot (2022–2023), the television special The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022), and the animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).
He founded the production company One Race Films, where he has also served as a producer or executive producer for his star vehicles. Diesel also founded the record label Racetrack Records and video game developer Tigon Studios, providing his voice and motion capture for all of Tigon's releases.
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Born in California, Diesel attended Hunter College in New York City, where studies in creative writing led him to begin screenwriting. He wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the short drama film Multi-Facial (1995) and his debut feature, Strays (1997). He came to prominence in the late 1990s. First, he gained recognition for his appearance in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan in 1998. He followed up with commercially successful films such as Boiler Room (2000) and The Pacifier (2005). He gained stardom as a leading action star headlining numerous franchises, including Fast & Furious, XXX, and The Chronicles of Riddick.
His voice acting work includes The Iron Giant (1999), the video games The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004) and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (2009), and the voices of Groot I and Groot II in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU); he portrayed the characters in six superhero films, beginning with Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Diesel has reprised his role as Groot for the Disney+ animated shorts series I Am Groot (2022–2023), the television special The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022), and the animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).
He founded the production company One Race Films, where he has also served as a producer or executive producer for his star vehicles. Diesel also founded the record label Racetrack Records and video game developer Tigon Studios, providing his voice and motion capture for all of Tigon's releases.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Vin Diesel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2025 | Fast X: Part 2 · as Dominic Toretto |
2024 | Conan O'Brien Must Go (TV Series) · as Dominic Toretto (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
2024 | ARK: The Animated Series (TV Series) · as Santiago (voice) |
2023 | Fast X · as Dominic Toretto |
2023 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 · as Groot (voice) |
2022 | The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special · as Groot (voice) |
2022 | Groot's First Steps · as Baby Groot (voice) |
2022 | Groot's Pursuit · as Baby Groot (voice) |
2022 | Groot Takes a Bath · as Baby Groot (voice) |
2022 | I Am Groot (TV Series) · as Baby Groot (voice) |
2022 | Magnum Opus · as Baby Groot (voice) |
2022 | Thor: Love and Thunder · as Groot (voice) |
2021 | F9: The Fast Saga · as Dominic Toretto |
2021 | Marvel Studios: Legends (TV Series) · as Groot (voice) (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
2020 | Bloodshot · as Ray Garrison / Bloodshot |
2019 | Fast & Furious: Spy Racers (TV Series) · as Dom Toretto (voice) |
2019 | Avengers: Endgame · as Groot (voice) |
2018 | Ralph Breaks the Internet · as Baby Groot (voice) |
2018 | Avengers: Infinity War · as Groot (voice) |
2017 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · as Baby Groot (voice) |
2017 | The Fate of the Furious · as Dominic Toretto |
2017 | xXx: Return of Xander Cage · as Xander Cage |
2016 | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk · as Shroom |
2015 | Marvel: I am Groot · as Baby Groot (voice) |
2015 | CelebriD&D (TV Series) · as Kaulder |
2015 | The Last Witch Hunter · as Kaulder |
2015 | Fast & Furious: Supercharged · as Dominic Toretto |
2015 | Furious 7 · as Dominic Toretto |
2015 | Snoop & Son: A Dad's Dream (TV Series) · as Narrator (2015) |
2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy · as Groot (voice) |
2013 | Riddick · as Riddick |
2013 | Riddick: Blindsided · as Riddick |
2013 | Fast & Furious 6 · as Dominic Toretto |
2011 | Fast Five · as Dominic Toretto |
2009 | Los Bandoleros · as Dominic Toretto |
2009 | Fast & Furious · as Dominic Toretto |
2009 | Wheelman · as Milo Burik |
2008 | Babylon A.D. · as Toorop |
2006 | The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift · as Dominic Toretto (uncredited) |
2006 | Find Me Guilty · as Jackie Dinorscio |
2006 | Web Junk 20 (TV Series) |
2005 | The Pacifier · as Shane Wolf |
2004 | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury · as Richard B. Riddick (voice) |
2004 | The Chronicles of Riddick · as Riddick |
2003 | Rammstein: Lichtspielhaus · as Xander Cage |
2003 | Turbo Charged Prelude to 2 Fast 2 Furious · as Dominic Toretto |
2003 | A Man Apart · as Sean Vetter |
2002 | xXx · as Xander Cage |
2001 | Knockaround Guys · as Taylor Reese |
2001 | The Fast and the Furious · as Dominic Toretto |
2000 | Pitch Black · as Richard B. Riddick |
2000 | Boiler Room · as Chris Varick |
2000 | The Chronicles of Riddick: Into Pitch Black · as Richard B. Riddick |
1999 | The Iron Giant · as The Iron Giant (voice) |
1998 | Saving Private Ryan · as Private Caparzo |
1997 | Electric Playground (TV Series) |
1997 | Strays · as Rick |
1995 | Multi-Facial · as Mike |
1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) |
1991 | New Jack City · as Bouncer |
1990 | Awakenings · as Hospital Orderly (uncredited) |