Information about Vince Vaughn

Vince Vaughn
Birth name	Vincent Anthony Vaughn
Born	March 28 1970 (1970--) (age 37) Minneapolis, Minnesota

Vincent Anthony Vaughn (born March 28, 1970) is an American film actor. He began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before coming to wider renown with the 1996 movie, Swingers. Vaughn has since appeared in a number of high-grossing Hollywood films, mostly comedies.

Biography

Early life

Vaughn was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Vernon Lindsay Vaughn, a salesman, and Sharon Eileen (née DePalmo), a Canadian-born broker once ranked as one of the United States' top money managers by Bloomberg Wealth Manager magazine.^[1] He has two older sisters, Valerie and Victoria. Vince's father was Protestant and his mother was Roman Catholic, and he was raised in the Catholic religion.^[2][3] He has English, Irish, German, Lebanese, and Italian ancestry.^[4] Vaughn's parents divorced in 1991. He grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois and then Lake Forest, Illinois, where he graduated from Lake Forest High School in 1988, with writer Dave Eggers. Vaughn developed an interest in theater at a young age. Although he had planned to pursue a career in water polo, he decided to become an actor in 1987, after being involved in a car accident which derailed his chance at athletic success. He had admitted in interviews that he was a bedwetter growing up, and did not manage to stay dry until a "very late" age, a moment which he claims was his proudest childhood moment.^[5]

Career

In 1988, Vaughn was cast in a Chevrolet television commercial, and subsequently moved to Hollywood. Although he appeared in the 1989 season of the television series, China Beach and in three CBS Schoolbreak Specials (in 1990), he was a struggling actor and faced many rejections. His first film role was 1993's Rudy, but Vaughn did not receive wider success until his role in 1996's Swingers. While filming Rudy, Vaughn met Jon Favreau, who was working on the original draft for Swingers.

Swingers was released in July of 1996, and became a successful independent film. Afterwards, director Steven Spielberg cast Vaughn in the blockbuster , which gave him increased exposure. From there, Vaughn went on to appear in several films of varied success, including playing Norman Bates in the 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. In 2000, he starred in The Cell with Jennifer Lopez, and in 2001, appeared in Made, another film penned by Favreau. Vaughn also appeared in Dwight Yoakam's directorial debut movie South of Heaven, West of Hell. Since Vaughn's role in the successful 2003 comedy, Old School, his profile skyrocketed, and his notoriety improved. In 2004, he appeared alongside Ben Stiller in the hit films Starsky & Hutch and , and had roles in 2005's Be Cool, Thumbsucker and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Also in 2005, Vaughn starred alongside Owen Wilson in the comedy Wedding Crashers, which grossed over $200 million at the United States box office. Vaughn enjoyed the shoot, even keeping a (somewhat) odd picture that a character was supposed to have painted of him. After this series of roles, Vaughn was dubbed one of the Hollywood Frat Pack, a group of actors who frequently co-star in film comedies. In 2006, Vaughn starred with Jennifer Aniston in the comedy-drama The Break-Up (also with Favreau).

The next year, he momentarily moved from comedy to drama in Sean Penn's Into the Wild, a film about the life and death of Christopher McCandless, which was also a best-selling book by Jon Krakauer. He played the role of Wayne Westerberg opposite Emile Hirsch as McCandless. Into the Wild also featured William Hurt, Catherine Keener, and Jena Malone. Next, Vaughn returned to comedy with Fred Claus, in which he played the sarcastic, wild-at-heart younger brother of Santa Claus (Paul Giamatti). Fred Claus was directed by David Dobkin, who previously directed Vaughn in Wedding Crashers, and co-starred Elizabeth Banks and Kevin Spacey.

Personal life

Vaughn dated two of his The Break-Up co-stars: actress Joey Lauren Adams during the filming of 1999's A Cool, Dry Place^[6] and Jennifer Aniston between 2005 and 2006. His relationship with Aniston began the summer after her separation from husband Brad Pitt. Due to the media firestorm surrounding it, along with Pitt's relationship with Angelina Jolie, Vaughn and Aniston's relationship was showered with tabloid attention. Rumors about the relationship include the couple moving to Australia,^[7] and a possible engagement. In the fall of 2006, Vaughn filed a lawsuit against three tabloid magazines, accusing them of falsely claiming that he had been unfaithful to Aniston, thus tacitly confirming their relationship.^[8] By December 2006, both Vaughn's and Aniston's reps confirmed that they had broken up.^[9] In Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Vaughn plays the friend of Brad Pitt's character, who is convinced that his wife (played by Angelina Jolie) is trying to kill him. In real life, Pitt and his wife Jennifer Aniston were going through a break-up, and Pitt wound up with his onscreen wife Jolie. So for a brief period of time, Vaughn had been dating his co-star's (Pitt) real off-screen wife, Aniston (however, Vaughn and Aniston's relationship took place after the Pitt-Aniston divorce, and after the filming and release of Mr. and Mrs. Smith).

In 2001, while filming Domestic Disturbance, he got into a bar fight with a local man.

Vaughn is also an avid fan of the Chicago Cubs and the University of Notre Dame, both of which featured prominently in his film The Break-Up.

Vaughn was part of the U.S.O. tour. He visited soldiers all over Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Iraq. Vaughn is also a registered Republican, having voted for George Bush in both elections in 2000 and 2004.

Awards

2006

• People's Choice Awards, USA Favorite On-Screen Match-Up for: Wedding Crashers (2005) Shared with: Owen Wilson
• MTV Movie Awards Best On-Screen Team for: Wedding Crashers (2005) Shared with: Owen Wilson
• Teen Choice Awards Movies - Choice Chemistry for: The Break-Up (2006) Shared with: Jennifer Aniston
• ShoWest Convention: Special Award - Comedy Star of the Year (2006)

2007

• People's Choice Award category Favorite Leading Man
• Spike TV's First Annual "Guys Choice" Guy Movie Hall of Fame" for "Swingers" along with Jon Favreau

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Rudy	Jamie O'Hara
1994	At Risk	Max Nolan
1996	Swingers	Trent Walker
1997		Nick Van Owen
	The Locusts	Clay Hewitt
1998	Psycho	Norman Bates
	Clay Pigeons	Lester Long
	A Cool, Dry Place	Russell Durrell
	Return to Paradise	John 'Sheriff' Volgecherev
2000	The Cell	FBI Agent Peter Novak
	The Prime Gig	Pendelton "Penny" Wise
	South of Heaven, West of Hell	Taylor Henry
2001	Domestic Disturbance	Rick Barnes
	Zoolander	Luke Zoolander	uncredited role
	Made	Ricky Slade
2003	I Love Your Work	Stiev
	Old School	Bernard "Beanie" Campbell
	Blackball	Rick Schwartz
2004	Starsky & Hutch	Reese Feldman
		Wes Mantooth	uncredited role
		Wes Mantooth	uncredited role
		Peter La Fleur
2005	Thumbsucker	Mr. Geary
	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Eddie
	Wedding Crashers	Jeremy Grey
	Be Cool	Raji
	Paparazzi	Actor
2006	The Break-Up	Gary Grobowski
2007	Into the Wild	Wayne Westerberg
	Fred Claus	Fred Claus	Post Production
2008	Four Christmases	TBA	Pre-production

References

External links

• Vince Vaughn at the Internet Movie Database
• Wild West Picture Show Productions
• Vince Vaughn at People.com
• Into The Wild