Vince Vaughn

Vince Vaughn

Vincent Anthony Vaughn is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. He began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before attaining wider recognition with the 1996 comedy-drama film Swingers. In the 2000s he acted primarily in comedies, including Old School, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up, Fred Claus, and Four Christmases. He continued his comedic roles in the 2010s with The Dilemma, The Watch, and The Internship. In 2015 he starred as Frank Semyon in the second season of the HBO anthology crime drama television series True Detective.

About Vince Vaughn in brief

Summary Vince VaughnVincent Anthony Vaughn is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. He began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before attaining wider recognition with the 1996 comedy-drama film Swingers. He has appeared in a number of films in the 1990s, including the sports film Rudy, the sci-fi adventure dinosaur film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the drama-thriller Return to Paradise and the remake of psychological thriller Psycho. In the 2000s he acted primarily in comedies, including Old School, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up, Fred Claus, and Four Christmases. He continued his comedic roles in the 2010s with The Dilemma, The Watch, and The Internship. In 2015, he starred as Frank Semyon in the second season of the HBO anthology crime drama television series True Detective alongside Colin Farrell, Taylor Kitsch, and Rachel McAdams, and since then has taken dramatic roles such as in Hacksaw Ridge, Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete.

Vaughn was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to a wealthy family. His mother, Sharon Eileen, is a real estate agent and stockbroker who was once ranked as one of the United States’ top money managers by Bloomberg Wealth Manager magazine. His father, Vernon Lindsay Vaughn, worked as a salesman for a toy company. As a child, he was raised both Protestant and Catholic by his Catholic mother and Protestant father. Vaughn has Lebanese, Italian, Irish, English, and German ancestry.