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Mark Sinclair Vincent, better known as Vin Diesel, is an American actor, voice actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the late 1990s and is best known for his roles as Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious film series and Richard B. Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick franchise. He is also well-known for voicing the titular character of the 1999 Warner Bros. sci-fi animated film The Iron Giant. Additionally, he is the founder of the production companies One Race Films, Tigon Studios, and Racetrack Records.

For Disney, he portrayed Shane Wolfe in the 2005 action comedy film The Pacifier. He also voiced Groot in the 2014 Marvel sci-fi film Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as reprised this role in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Avengers: Infinity War, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Avengers: Endgame, Thor: Love and Thunder, I Am Groot, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Additionally, he was mentioned in the DreamWorks/Touchstone film Need for Speed, the Liv and Maddie episodes "Slump-a-Rooney" and "Howl-a-Rooney", the Bunk'd episode "Cabin vs. Cabin", the Stuck in the Middle episode "Stuck at the Movies", and the Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything episode "The DJs".

Diesel was born Mark Sinclair in Alameda County, California, where his mother was also born, though later moved to New York City with his fraternal twin brother, Paul. His mother, Delora Sherleen Vincent (née Sinclair), is an astrologer. He was raised by his white mother and adoptive African-American father, Irving H. Vincent, an acting instructor and theater manager. Diesel has stated that he is "of ambiguous ethnicity." His mother has Scottish roots. He has never met his biological father and has said that "all I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures." Diesel believes that his parents' relationship would have been illegal in parts of the United States due to anti-miscegenation laws.

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