Vin Diesel is one proud dad.
With his longtime partner Paloma Jiménez, with whom he started dating in 2007. Fast and furious the star has three children: daughter Hania (15), son Vincent (13) and daughter Pauline (9).
“I’m beyond proud of my kids,” Diesel told PEOPLE in 2017. “Oh my God, I’m proud of them all the time.”
And the feeling is clearly mutual. Diesel recalled of his children: “They were watching [XXX: Return of Xander Cage] trailer. At the end, my son says, ‘It’s going to be a big hit.’ I stopped in the middle of traffic and had to kiss him on both cheeks. Just so the universe knows I heard.”
He added: “My children move me to tears all the time. My daughter Similce told me a few weeks ago: ‘Dad, I know what song should be at every funeral.’ I said, ‘What is it?’ And she said, ‘See you again.’ That wasn’t fair.”
Diesel’s children are even starting to follow in his footsteps, and the two oldest have joined them Fast and furious family. The entire Diesel clan also regularly attends the actor’s movie premieres and supports him on the red carpet in some of his biggest career moments.
Keep reading for everything you need to know about Vin Diesel’s three children.
Hania “Similce” Riley Sinclair, 15
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Diesel and Jiménez became parents for the first time on April 2, 2008, when their daughter Hania Riley Sinclair, also called “Similce”, was born.
After her arrival, the action star revealed that it was his Fast and furious Costar and good friend, the late actor Paul Walker, was the reason he took an active role in her delivery.
“I say to Paul, ‘You know, should I be in the delivery room or how is that going to work?’ And he says, ‘You know, so many guys will tell you, “Don’t do it… you can’t stomach it… you’ll never look at a girl the same way,” [but] it’s the best thing you’ll ever do in your life,’” Diesel recalled Good morning America.
He added, “[I] did everything but literally pull it off. I cut the umbilical cord. I was more present than I could have ever dreamed of, but the bond it made with my daughter is priceless.”
Hania is following in her father’s footsteps, both in acting and in the acting world Fast and furious franchise. The father-daughter duo attended the red carpet premiere of the Netflix animated series in December 2019. The Fast and the Furious: Spy Racesin which he acts.
The series follows teenager Tony Toretto, played by Tyler Posey, a cousin of Diesel’s character Dominic Toretto from the movies. Hania plays Sissy, a 13-year-old tech genius. Diesel is also involved as an executive producer.
Hania also stays close Quickly family through her friendship with Paul’s daughter Meadow. The model has shared several photos of her and Hania over the years, including a photo from May 2021 in which she referred to Hania and Diesel as “family.”
In October 2021, Diesel revealed that Hania was Meadow’s maid of honor at her wedding to Louisa Thornton-Allan.
“Look at this photo Pablo, it will make you smile. The same angel that you helped me prepare for in the most beautiful way with your brotherly advice is the same angel that precious Meadow asked to be her bridesmaid,” Diesel, who walked Meadow down the aisle, he wrote in a dedication to Paul on Instagram.
Vincent Sinclair, 13
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Vincent Sinclair, the only son of Diesel and Jiménez, was born on August 15, 2010.
Like his older sister, Vincent also joined Fast and furious family. In March 2021, news broke that she would make her film debut F9 as a younger version of his father’s character, Dominic Toretto.
While he’s proud to have his son join the franchise, Diesel said it wasn’t his idea to cast Vincent in the film. While appearing on Tonight’s show, the actor told host Jimmy Fallon that he “can’t take credit” for casting Vincent. – It was Justin Lin, the director.
“But we shot those films for so long, that every time one of my children was born, I usually worked on Fast and furious of the movie,” Diesel continued. “So the director and the cast have their own relationship with my kids. And it was [Lin’s] the idea of my son playing young Dom.”
In September 2021, Diesel teased the title of the tenth installation Fast and furious posting a picture of the letters “FX” stamped into Vincent’s hair. The first trailer for Quick X debuted in February 2023.
Vincent also became interested in one of his father’s other passions — Dungeons & Dragons. The actor, who has been acting for more than 40 years, revealed that his son’s 12th birthday cake was inspired by the fantasy role-playing game.
“I started playing D&D when I was 12… so on his birthday this month it was surreal to have this as a birthday cake. Haha,” the proud dad captioned a photo of the intricate birthday cake, inspired by the game’s manual. “All love, always.”
Pauline Sinclair, 9
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Diesel and Jiménez’s youngest child, daughter Pauline Sinclair, was born on March 14, 2015. Pauline was named after Paul Walker, who died in a car accident in 2013 a few years before she was born.
“He was in the room [when she was born]. There is no other person I was thinking about when I cut this umbilical cord,” revealed Diesel Frn Today after Pauline’s arrival. “I just… knew he was there. It felt like a way to keep his memory as part of my family and part of my world.”
Like her siblings and father, Pauline has a special bond with Paul’s daughter.
“Seeing her with her children is one of the most beautiful things. There are times when I see her playing with Pauline and it touches me so deeply because I can only imagine what my brother sees when he sees that,” Diesel said of Livada in June 2021.
“I feel very protective. It goes beyond the film,” he added.
Although Pauline has yet to join Fast and furious franchise, she was interested in cars from an early age. During the appearance at the 2017 Jimmy Kimmel LiveDiesel shared that his then-one-year-old already had a favorite car — a ’69 Dodge Daytona.
“I think it’s in the genes,” Diesel said. When host Jimmy Kimmel asked how Pauline said it was her favorite car, the actor replied: “Because she fights for it whenever the kids play cards… And I say ‘Pauline, where’s your favorite car?’ And she’s switching to a Dodge Dayton.”
Diesel returned to the late night show in April 2023 for promotion Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3in which he voices Groot, and is joined by Pauline in a segment called “The Guillermo Show”.
The father-daughter duo competed in a series of games, and eventually Pauline asked her dad to introduce her to Kimmel; she politely shook the host’s hand and then helped her dad hand out tickets to the audience for the film’s premiere.
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