If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

2008) with his girlfriend model Paloma Jimenez. He was cast in Steven Spielberg's 1998 Oscar-winning film Saving Private Ryan on the poignancy of his performance in Multi-Facial. Career


1990s
Diesel's first film role was a brief uncredited appearance in the film Awakenings (1990).

Vin Diesel (born Mark Sinclair Vincent; July 18 1967) is an American actor writer director and producer. He is also the founder of the production companies One Race Films Tigon Studios and Racetrack Records.