Vin Diesel

Mark Sinclair born July 18 1967 known professionally as Vin Diesel is an American actor and film producer One of the worlds highestgrossing 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 MultiFacial 1995 and his debut feature Strays 1997 He came to prominence in the late 1990s First he gained recognition for his appearance in Steven Spielbergs 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 20222023 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 Tigons releases