35 Facts About Vince Vaughn

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Vince Vaughn continued his comedic roles in the 2010s with The Dilemma, The Watch, and The Internship.

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Vince Vaughn began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before attaining wider recognition with the 1996 comedy-drama film Swingers.

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Vince Vaughn appeared in Rudy, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Return to Paradise, Psycho, The Cell, and Domestic Disturbance.

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Vince Vaughn starred as Frank Semyon in the second season of the HBO anthology crime drama television series True Detective.

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Vince Vaughn has dramatic roles such as in Hacksaw Ridge, Fighting with My Family, and Freaky.

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Vince Vaughn was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to a wealthy family.

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Vince Vaughn's 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.

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Vince Vaughn has Lebanese, Italian, Irish, English, and German ancestry.

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Vince Vaughn grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, where he played football and baseball and wrestled, although he has called himself "unathletic" and "very average" at high school sports.

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Vince Vaughn then moved to Lake Forest, where he graduated from Lake Forest High School in 1988.

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Vince Vaughn was introduced to musical theater at a young age and decided to become an actor in 1987.

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Vince Vaughn has credited his mother as the inspiration behind his career, saying that "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 television 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's first film role was 1993's Rudy playing Notre Dame football tailback Jamie O'Hara, where he struck up a friendship with Jon Favreau, who was a first-time actor.

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Vince Vaughn did not receive wider success until his role in 1996's Swingers with Jon Favreau.

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Vince Vaughn appeared in Dwight Yoakam's directorial debut movie South of Heaven, West of Hell.

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Also in 2005, Vince Vaughn starred alongside Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers, which grossed over $200 million at the United States box office.

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In 2006, Vince Vaughn starred with Jennifer Aniston in the comedy drama The Break-Up.

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In 2007, Vince Vaughn starred in the Christmas comedy Fred Claus, as a sarcastic, wild-at-heart older brother of Santa Claus.

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In 2009, Vince Vaughn starred in Couples Retreat, a comedy chronicling four couples who partake in therapy sessions at a tropical island resort.

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In February 2010, Vince Vaughn was among the nearly 80 musicians and actors to sing on 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 Wedding Crashers co-star 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 previously 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 entitled 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 late 2006, Vince Vaughn filed a lawsuit against three tabloid magazines accusing them of falsely claiming that he had been unfaithful to Aniston.

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In March 2009, it was reported that Vince Vaughn was engaged to Canadian realtor Kyla Weber.

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Vince Vaughn supported Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul in both the 2008 and 2012 elections, and Rand Paul in the 2016 election.

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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 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at the Gracie Academy in Torrance, California and received his blue belt in February 2018.

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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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In May 2019, Vince Vaughn was convicted of a reduced charge of reckless driving after he entered into a no contest plea and sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to undergo a three-month alcohol abuse program.