Vince Vaughn | |
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_-_1.jpg) Vaughn in 2015 | |
| Born | Vincent Anthony Vaughn March 28, 1970 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1988–present |
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Kyla Weber (m. 2010) |
| Children | 2 |
Vincent Anthony Vaughn[1] (born March 28, 1970)[2] is an American actor and comedian. He is known for starring as a leading man in numerous comedy films during the late 1990s and 2000s. He was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Saturn Award.
Vaughn made his acting debut in the sports drama film Rudy (1993). He had his career breakthrough with the comedy Swingers (1996). He starred in a string of successful comedy films such as Old School (2003), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005), The Break-Up (2006), Fred Claus (2007), Four Christmases (2008), Couples Retreat (2009), The Dilemma (2011), The Internship (2013), and Delivery Man (2013).
He is also known for his dramatic roles playing Nick Van Owen in Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997), and Norman Bates in Psycho (1998). He acted in other drama films such as The Locusts (1997), Return to Paradise (1998), The Cell (2000), South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000), Domestic Disturbance (2001), Hacksaw Ridge (2016), Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017), Dragged Across Concrete (2018), and Freaky (2020).
On television, he starred as career criminal Frank Semyon in the second season of the HBO anthology crime drama television series True Detective (2015), and as a detective turned restaurant inspector in the Apple TV+ drama series Bad Monkey (2024). He also took recurring roles in the animated Netflix sitcom F Is for Family (2018), and in the HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm (2020–2024).
- ^ "Vince Vaughn: American Actor". Britannica.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2020. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
- ^ Hochman, David (February 12, 2015). "Playboy Interview: Vince Vaughn". Playboy. Archived from the original on February 14, 2015. Retrieved December 7, 2017.