Yet again Vin returned disappointed to New York only to receive a dream phone call. Six months after shooting, the film was accepted for the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, and although it received a good reception, it did not sell as well as hoped. Afterwards, Vin returned to Los Angeles and raised almost $50,000 through telemarketing to fund the making of his first feature, Strays (1997). Multi-Facial (1995) was eventually accepted for the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it got a tumultuous reception. He wrote a short film based on his own experiences as an actor, called Multi-Facial (1995), which was shot in less than three days at a cost of $3,000. The book showed him that he could take control of his career and make his own movies. His mother then gave him a book called "Feature Films at used Car Prices" by Rick Schmidt. Being an experienced theatre actor did not make any impression in Hollywood and after a year of struggling to make his mark, he returned to New York. Following high school, Vin enrolled as an English major at Hunter College, but dropped out after three years to go to Hollywood to further his acting career.
It was at this time that he changed his name to Vin Diesel. At age seventeen and already sporting a well-honed physique, he became a bouncer at some of New York's hippest clubs to earn himself some extra cash. From there, Vin's fledgling career progressed from the New York repertory company run by his father, to the Off-Off-Broadway circuit. A woman stopped them and offered them each a script and $20, on the condition that they would attend everyday after school. His first break in acting happened by chance, when at the age of seven he and his friends broke into a theatre to vandalize it. His mother is white (with English, German, Scottish, and Irish ancestry), and his adoptive father is African-American referring to his biological father's background, Diesel has said that he himself is "definitely a person of colour". Vincent, an acting instructor and theatre manager, in an artists' housing project in New York City's Greenwich Village. He was raised by his astrologer/psychologist mother, Delora Sherleen (Sinclair), and adoptive father, Irving H. Vin Diesel was born Mark Sinclair in Alameda County, California, along with his fraternal twin brother, Paul Vincent.
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