It was at this time that he changed his name to Vin Diesel. 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. From there, Vin's fledgling career progressed from the New York repertory company run by his father, to the Off-Off-Broadway circuit. A woman stopped them and offered them each a script and $20, on the condition that they would attend everyday after school. 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. 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'.

Vincent, an acting instructor and theatre manager, in an artists' housing project in New York City's Greenwich Village. He was raised by his astrologer/psychologist mother, Delora Sherleen (Sinclair), and adoptive father, Irving H. Vin Diesel was born Mark Sinclair in Alameda County, California, along with his fraternal twin brother, Paul Vincent.

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