What most of you didn't know about Vin Diesel

Here are some funny/ interesting facts about the famous actor Vin Diesel (known as Dominic Toretto or Dom in the Fast and Furious series):

1. His mother was an astrologist/psychologist.

2. His real name is Mark Sinclair Vincent; he changed it after he started bouncing at New York City clubs at age 17.

3. As a teen he appeared in an instructional breakdancing video called "Breakin' in the USA."

4. He studied English at Hunter College in New York City, but dropped out after three years to move to L.A. and pursue acting.

5. He has a fraternal twin brother named Paul Vincent, who's a film editor.

6. After failing to launch his acting career in L.A., he moved back to his native New York, where he soon wrote his first short film about his own experiences as an actor. "Multi-Facial" was shot for $3,000 and screened at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. After Steven Spielberg saw and was impressed by "Multi-Facial", Vin Diesel was cast in "Saving Private Ryan".


7. He once worked as a telemarketer selling lightbulbs.

8. He holds the title of actor with the highest number of Facebook fans (60,389,614 to be exact). Will Smith is the second.



9. He has two children -- Hania, 5, and Vincent, 3 -- with his model girlfriend Paloma Jimenez. The actor likes to keep his family life private. In fact, he never even formally announced the birth of either of his children. But when he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 26, his girlfriend and children made a rare appearance.


10. He got his start in acting when he was seven years old after he and his friends broke into the Theater for New York City with plans to vandalize it. A woman who worked there caught them, gave them a script and $20, and agreed to let them go if they showed up for rehearsals every day after school.