Fans are only just discovering that Vin Diesel – the jacked up action hero known worldwide for the Fast & Furious franchise – isn’t actually the Hollywood star’s real name.
The 57-year-old movie star has been hiding behind a stage name that’s far from the one on his birth certificate.
The revelation came out during an appearance on The Ellen Show back in March 2005, a year before The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift hit theaters.
The clip has since resurfaced and is now going viral online as shocked fans finally discover the truth.
During the interview, then host Ellen DeGeneres said ‘Vin Diesel’ couldn’t ‘possibly’ be his real name.
The actor came clean and admitted: ‘You know what, it’s not.’
Fans are only just discovering that Vin Diesel – the jacked up action hero known worldwide for his intense stunts in the Fast & Furious franchise – isn’t actually the Hollywood star’s real name
The revelation came during an appearance on The Ellen Show back in March 2005, a year before The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift hit theaters
He then dropped the bombshell news: ‘My real name is Mark Vincent.’
The star went on to explain the surprisingly origins of his now-famous stage name.
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He revealed that it stemmed from his pre-fame career as a nightclub bouncer in New York City.
‘I was a bouncer for nine years, and the name stuck,’ the star confessed. ‘We all had fictitious names just in case we got in trouble or anything.’
According to Diesel, the nickname was formed naturally from his real name and impressive physique.
‘Vin from Vincent,’ he explained, adding that in New York City, ‘when you’re probably built up a little, you say that guy is diesel.’
In response to the bombshell news, one person took to X to write, ‘How tf you get “Vin Diesel” from Mark Vincent?’
‘A better name change the Whoopi Goldberg,’ another wrote on Reddit.
A third added: ‘I think we all know that his REAL name is Dominic Torreto.’
During the interview, Ellen DeGeneres said ‘Vin Diesel’ couldn’t ‘possibly’ be his real name. The actor came clean and admitted: ‘You know what, it’s not.’ He then dropped the bombshell news: ‘My real name is Mark Vincent’
Diesel revealed that the name stemmed from his pre-fame career as a nightclub bouncer in New York City
In April, fans found out that Jude Law isn’t actually the actor’s real name.
After being propelled to worldwide fame thanks to 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, the name Jude Law was on everyone’s lips – but would his real name of David Law been just as popular?
Yes, the Hollywood star was humbly called David Jude Heyworth Law at birth, with Jude being his middle name, but no one ever uses his original moniker – not even his parents.
The Hollywood star, 52, was born as David but is known to everyone as Jude, which is actually his middle name.
The actor previously insisted that no one ever calls him by his birthname, not even his parents, with Jude seemingly being the go-to moniker.
The father-of-seven spoke of his name change recently when addressing the nickname of ‘Celebrity Dave’ given to him by the paparazzi.
He told the Guardian newspaper back in September: ‘I didn’t know the paps call me Celebrity Dave! If they do, it’s probably because the name in my passport is David Jude as opposed to Jude David.
‘No one’s ever called me David. My mom and dad called me Jude. It was just one of those odd things they did.’
The Fantastic Beasts star also told how he’s not sick of hearing the Beatles classic Hey Jude.
‘Not at all. I love that song. Thank God it’s such a wonderful song. I have a very personal attachment because it’s a song my mum loved, so in truth it reminds me of her.’
He insisted that it was a ‘brilliant song’ that he’s ‘glad’ to be associated with, joking that people will now sing it when he walked into a room.
Jude switched to his current stage name in 1980s after enrolling in a youth drama group in London.