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Vince Vaughn Biography

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MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Producer , Executive Producer more
Birth name Vincent Anthony Vaughn
Nationality American
Birth March 28, 1970 (Minneapolis, Minnesota – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
After appearing in commercials and television series like 21 Jump Street , Vince Vaughn appeared on the big screen for the first time in For the Boys in 1991. Two years later, he met, on the set of Rudy , by Jon Favreau , author of a screenplay about the torments of an apprentice actor. A role that Vince Vaughn will play in Swingers (1996) by director Doug Liman . A success of esteem, the film nevertheless allowed the actor to be noticed, in particular by Steven Spielberg , who called on him for The Lost World (1997).

Demanded by the studios, the actor with a disturbing appearance convinced critics with his performance as Norman Bates in Psycho (1998), the remake of the Hitchcock classic . Now subscribed to leading roles, he participated in another remake, that of Force majeure , entitled Far from Paradise (1999), hunted down serial killers alongside Jennifer Lopez in The Cell (2000) and found his friend Jon Favreau for Made (2001). Playing the criminal stepfather opposite John Travolta in The Intruder (2002), Vince Vaughn finds happiness in comedy by regularly opposite Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson ( Zoolander , Starsky and Hutch , Not even bad! (Dodgeball ) , Serial revelers ).

Also appearing in the cast of Be Cool , the dark brunette lends a hand to the secret agent played by Brad Pitt in Mr. & Mrs. Smith , and separates on screen from his companion in the city Jennifer Aniston in The Breakup (2006) by Peyton Reed . A career which continued in style with Brother Christmas (2007) and Into the Wild (id.), where he let himself be directed by Sean Penn . Subsequently, Vince Vaughn once again confirmed his ease in the comic register by playing the leading roles in the comedies Tout… except en famille (2008), Couples therapy (2009), The Dilemma (2011), Voisins du third type (2012), Les Interns (2013), Delivery Man (id.) or even Jet Lag (2015).

In 2014, he surprised when he was chosen to play a formidable gangster with a troubled past in the second season of True Detective . Highly anticipated, this new burst of episodes unfortunately received a cold reception from the public and critics. However, Vince Vaughn continues to move away from the comic register, as evidenced by his performances in On the Run and Mel Gibson ‘s latest production You Shall Not Kill . He confirms his appetite for darker roles with his collaboration with the filmmaker (also author of thrillers) S. Craig Zahler : he is a violent prisoner with a tattooed head in Section 99 (2017) then a corrupt police officer in Dragged on the Bitumen ( 2018).

He returned to comedy the following year with A Family in the Ring , led by Florence Pugh , then Freaky , a slasher parody in which he portrays a serial killer trapped in the body of a teenage girl.

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