Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel is best known for portraying Dominic Toretto in the Fast & Furious franchise. He got his start appearing in Steven Spielberg’s 1998 film Saving Private Ryan and continued to find success in Boiler Room (2000), The Pacifier (2006) and Find Me Guilty (2006). Diesel also voiced Groot in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.

Diesel founded the production company One Race Films in 1995 and the video game company Tigon Studios in 2002.

In December 2023, Diesel’s former assistant Asta Jonasson sued him for alleged sexual battery and retaliation during filming for Fast Five in 2010. Diesel denied the allegations at the time.

Diesel previously dated his Fast & Furious costar Michelle Rodriguez before sparking a romance with model Paloma Jiménez in 2007. The pair welcomed their first child, daughter Hania, in 2008. Two years later, they welcomed son Vincent. Daughter Pauline, named after Diesel’s late friend and costar Paul Walker, was born in 2015.