Vince Vaughn

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 comedies.

[edit] 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 the likes of famous sports agent Rob Pelinka (Kobe Bryant), writer Dave Eggers, renowned international photographer Michael Stahlschmidt and Mr. T's daughter, Lisa.[citation needed] 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. After high school graduation Vaughn was accepted into Yale University but declined in order to pursue a career in acting.


[edit] 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 Lost World: Jurassic Park, which gave him an amount of 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. Vaughn had appeared in a Dwight Yoakam music video "These Arms." 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 Dodgeball, 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. 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).


[edit] 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[5] 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,[6] 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.[7] By December 2006, both Vaughn's and Aniston's reps confirmed that they had broken up.[8] 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. After being arrested he was seen at that same bar within 2 hours enjoying a couple of drinks with the local authorities.[citation needed]

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 has said that he does not own (and does not plan on buying) a cell phone. This is contrary to his depiction on an episode of MTV2's Celebrity Deathmatch (in which he faced off against Wedding Crashers co-star Owen Wilson), unable to call his agent on "his" cell phone from the ring.[citation needed] Vince Vaughn is 6'5".