Vin Diesel is an American actor and film producer. He was born Mark Sinclair on July 18, 1967, in Alameda County, California, where his mother was also born, though later moved to New York City with his fraternal twin brother, Paul. His mother, Delora Sherleen Vincent (née Sinclair), is an astrologer, and his adoptive African-American father, Irving H. Vincent, was an acting instructor and theater manager. Vin Diesel has mixed ethnicity, with his mother having English, German, and Scottish roots, and his adoptive father being African-American. Diesel has stated that he is "of ambiguous ethnicity" and "definitely a person of color".