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VIN DIESEL
(Xander Cage/Executive Producer) exploded onto theatre screens last summer in
Universal’s hit film The Fast and the Furious, directed by Rob Cohen. For
his role, Diesel was honored with 2002 MTV Movie Award nominations both as Best
Male Performance and Best On-Screen Team (with Paul Walker). His next release
will be New Line Cinema’s Diablo, directed by F. Gary Gray and produced
by Diesel, who stars as an undercover DEA agent.
Following the completion of XXX, Diesel will segue into production on The Chronicles
of Riddick for Universal, in which he’ll reprise the role he created in
the science fiction hit Pitch Black. Diesel’s One Race Productions will
also produce.
Prior to Pitch Black, he gave a standout performance in Boiler Room, and was the
voice of the title character in the Warner Bros. animated feature The Iron Giant,
which won an Annie Award for Best Animated Feature.
Steven Spielberg noticed Diesel’s early work and created the role of Private
Carpazo for him in Saving Private Ryan, opposite Tom Hanks. Diesel was nominated
for a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the film’s ensemble cast.
In the early 1990s, Diesel wrote, produced, directed and starred in his first
film, a short, Multifacial, which was screened at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
He then wrote his first full-length feature, Strays, in which he also was the
star, director and producer. This raw urban drama was selected to be in competition
at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.
A native to New York City, Diesel gave his first stage performance at the age
of 7 at Theatre for the New City in Greenwich Village and continued to work in
theatre throughout his childhood.
Diesel majored in English at Hunter College with a concentration on creative writing
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