The naming of his third child was a bittersweet recent moment for Hollywood star Vin Diesel.
The big-screen hard man recently welcomed a daughter with his partner Paloma Jiminéz, a sister to the couple's daughter Hania Riley Sinclair, 6, and son Vincent Sinclair, 4.
Speaking on NBC's
Today on Monday, the actor revealed he has named the new addition to the family after his late friend Paul Walker.
The onscreen partnership of Diesel and Walker helped to turn
The Fast and the Furious into one of the most successful franchises in movie history, with the pair sharing a firm friendship off screen as well as on.
Vin said: "I named her Pauline."
"There's no other person that I'm thinking about as I'm cutting this umbilical cord."
"I knew he was there and I felt like, you know, a way to keep his memory a part of my memory, a part of my world."
Walker died tragically on November 30th, 2013, following a car accident. He is survived by his own daughter, 16-year-old Meadow.
Furious 7, Walker's final film, opens on April 3rd.
