1. Vince Vaughn is known for starring as a leading man in numerous comedy films during the late 1990s and 2000s.
37 Facts About Vince Vaughn
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Vince Vaughn was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Saturn Award.
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Vince Vaughn had his career breakthrough with the comedy Swingers.
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Vince Vaughn starred in a string of successful comedy films such as Old School, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up, Fred Claus, Four Christmases, Couples Retreat, The Dilemma, The Internship, and Delivery Man.
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Vince Vaughn is known for his dramatic roles playing Nick Van Owen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and Norman Bates in Psycho.
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Vince Vaughn acted in other drama films such as The Locusts, Return to Paradise, The Cell, South of Heaven, West of Hell, Domestic Disturbance, Hacksaw Ridge, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Dragged Across Concrete, and Freaky.
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Vince Vaughn took recurring roles in the animated Netflix sitcom F Is for Family, and in the HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Vince Vaughn's mother, Sharon Eileen, is a real estate agent and stockbroker who was once ranked one of the top US money managers by Bloomberg Wealth Manager magazine.
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Vince Vaughn has Italian, Irish, English, Lebanese, and German ancestry.
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Vince Vaughn lived in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, until he was eight years old.
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Vince Vaughn has credited his mother as the inspiration for his career, saying, "I saw her overcome stuff, and I thought if you worked hard at something you'd give yourself a chance".
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In 1988, Vince Vaughn was cast in a Chevrolet commercial and subsequently moved to Hollywood.
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Vince Vaughn appeared in the 1989 season of the television series China Beach and in three CBS Schoolbreak Specials in 1990.
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Vince Vaughn struck up a friendship with Jon Favreau, who was a first-time actor.
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Vince Vaughn did not gain wider success until his role in 1996's Swingers with Favreau.
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Vince Vaughn followed that up with the lead role in The Locusts the same year.
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Vince Vaughn appeared in Dwight Yoakam's directorial debut, South of Heaven, West of Hell.
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Vince Vaughn starred with John Travolta in the thriller Domestic Disturbance.
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Also in 2005, Vince Vaughn starred alongside Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers, which grossed over $200 million at the US box office.
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Critics JR Jones of The Chicago Reader praised both Vince Vaughn and Wilson on their chemistry describing them as "enormously funny" adding the film is a "rich send-ups of wedding culture".
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In 2006, Vince Vaughn starred the comedy-drama The Break-Up opposite Jennifer Aniston.
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In 2007, Vince Vaughn starred in the Christmas comedy film Fred Claus as a sarcastic, wild-at-heart older brother of Santa Claus.
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In 2008, Vince Vaughn starred in his second Christmas comedy, Four Christmases, with Reese Witherspoon.
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In February 2010, Vince Vaughn was among the nearly 80 musicians and actors to sing the charity-single remake of We Are the World.
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Vince Vaughn starred in Ron Howard's comedy The Dilemma, released in January 2011.
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On July 31,2012, it was announced that Vince Vaughn would be developing a reboot produced by CBS to the sitcom The Brady Bunch, which was taken off the air in 1974.
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In 2013, Vince Vaughn co-wrote and starred alongside Owen Wilson in The Internship.
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In 2018, Vaughn co-starred alongside Mel Gibson in Dragged Across Concrete, his second collaboration with S Craig Zahler, whom he worked with the year before on Brawl in Cell Block 99.
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On January 20,2022, it was announced that Vince Vaughn will produce a sequel to the 1983 film A Christmas Story titled A Christmas Story Christmas with Peter Billingsley through his production company Wild West Picture Show Productions for Warner Bros.
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In 2005, Vince Vaughn began dating Jennifer Aniston, his co-star in The Break-Up.
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In March 2009, it was announced that Vince Vaughn was engaged to Canadian realtor Kyla Weber.
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In June 2015, Vince Vaughn expressed his opposition to gun control.
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In 2016, Vince Vaughn began training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu at the Gracie Academy in Torrance, California.
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On June 10,2018, Vince Vaughn was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and resisting arrest in Manhattan Beach, California, after failing a sobriety test at a police checkpoint.
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Vince Vaughn was sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to undergo a three-month alcohol abuse program.
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In 2019, Vince Vaughn received the Meritorious Public Service Medal from the US Army for his contributions to service members' morale.