'''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.
Biography
Early life
Vaughn was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Vernon Lindsay Vaughn (a salesman) and Sharon Eileen DePalmo (a Canadian-born broker once ranked as one of the United States' top money managers by ''Bloomberg Wealth Manager'' magazine)
["Rush & Molloy" (column), "Vince Had to Deal with Mother of All Swindles". New York http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/427184p-360294c.html|''Daily News'', June 16, 2006.] He has two older sisters, Valerie and Victoria. Vaughn's father was Protestant and his mother was Catholic, and he was raised in a mixture of both denominations;
he has English, Irish, German, Italian and Lebanese ancestry.
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 sports agent Rob Pelinka (Kobe Bryant) and renowned international photographer Michael Stahlschmidt Vaughn developed an interest in theatre at a young age. Although he had originally planned to pursue a career as an athlete, he decided to become an actor in 1987, after being involved in a car accident which derailed his chance at athletic success.
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 became a struggling actor and faced many rejections. His first film role was 1993's ''Rudy'', but Vaughn did not receive wider success until after 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. Director Steven Spielberg saw Vaughn in the film, and cast him 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
