1. His real name is Mark Sinclair Vincent.
2. He changed his name to Vin Diesel while working as a bouncer at a nightclub called Tunnel in New York City.
3. He also bounced at a bar called Mars where a lesser-known Moby used to spin.
4. When he was 3 he tried to join in on the show during a Barnum & Bailey's circus performance before his mom rescued him.
4. He once worked as a telemarketer selling lightbulbs and, later, mechanics tools.
5. He has a twin brother named Paul Vincent.
6. This is what his twin brother looks like:
5. He's a huge Dungeons and Dragons fan.
6. So much so that he wrote the forward to the book Thirty Years of Adventure: A celebration of Dungeons and Dragons.
7. And taught Judi Dench how to play.
8. His cousin is the rapper Kwame.
9. He majored in English at Hunter College.
10. But dropped out after his third year to pursue acting.
11. When he was 7 he broke into a theater to vandalize it but was stopped by a woman who gave him and his friends a script and $20. She let them go on the condition that he would join the after school theater program.
12. As a teen he performed in instructional videos for breakdancing.
13. He auditioned for the lead role of a cross-dresser in the movie Flawless but didn't get the part because he was too masculine. It went to Philip Seymour Hoffman instead.
14. He also was originally offered the role of Daredevil in Daredevil, but that went to Ben Affleck.
15. This is what he looks like with hair:
16. He has his own production company called One Race Films.
17. And his own record label called RaceTrack Records.
18. And his own video game developing company called Tigon Studios.
19. He voiced the Iron Giant in The Iron Giant.
20. He grew up in Greenwich Village, N.Y., in subsidized housing.
21. And has given back to the area where he was raised.
22. He's now currently worth about $75 million.
23. He was cast in Saving Private Ryan after Steven Spielberg was impressed by his talents in Multi-Facial, a movie Vin wrote, directed, and produced.
24. In lou of payment, he traded his cameo in The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift to get the rights to Riddick.
25. He has no tattoos. All the tattoos in XXX were fake (and named after his Dungeons and Dragons character).
26. In Germany, his movie The Pacifier is called Der Babynator.
27. His Facebook page is the 12th most liked page on Facebook.
28. He's 46 years old.
29. He can kind of sing.
30. And actually used to rap under his birth name, Mark Sinclair.
31. His first name sounds like a nickname.
32. And If you rearrange the letters in his name it reads "I End Lives."
