Originally posted by Don Jasani:
It looks like Vin Diesel has been miscast in this role but he did do ok as an Italian-American in Boiler Room and if he 
Vin Archibald Diesel was born in New York City and raised in Greenwich Village by his mother Delora Vincent, a psychologist, and stepfather Irving Vincent, a teacher. He has never known his biological father. Diesel is of multiracial descent,
usually reported as African-Italian ; however, Diesel has said that his mother is descended from the Sinclairs of Scotland.
