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Vince Vaughn made his first Hollywood smash hit playing an arrogant role in the independent film "Swingers" (1996) The 6’5” sarcastic and funny actor next worked in a few poor movies and a few baffling misfires, Gus Van Sant's “Psycho” (1998) for one, before his intense appeal found a home in conventional comedies like “Old School” (2003), “Dodgeball” (2004) and the $215 million box office smash hit, “Wedding Crashers” (2005).

Vince Vaughn was often seen as a founding actor of The Frat Pack, a group of young actors including Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, and the Wilson brothers, who normally appeared in the top earning comedy films of the decade. An unanticipated role in Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild” (2007) showed that Vaughn may still have a good livelihood in front of him once he was pushed out of the frat pack.

Vince Vaughn was born on March 28, 1970, and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, IL. His father was a sales rep and his mother a stockbroker. The family principles were very much about Midwestern honest work over money and fame. Vaughn’s environment made him feel unwelcome in their trendy locality, and with talent in schoolwork and sports, he learned that his sense of humor was the easiest way to get attention.

Vince Vaughn began acting in local children’s theater from the age of ten, performing in school productions throughout junior high and high school. He also refined his smart ass, funny humor as the host of school talent shows. During his senior year, Vaughn sprouted to his adult height of 6’4” and was destined to stand out in a group no matter what he did. As president of his senior class at Lake Forest High School, Vaughn’s poor grades almost stopped him from graduating.

After going with a friend to an audition for an trade film, he wound up coming back home with a role himself. Not long after that he enlisted in classes at the legendary Improv Olympic and found an agent, manager and acting coach. He landed a number of money-making jobs, including a Chevy truck commercial, and then relocated to Los Angeles. His biggest dreams were that he could make a decent living acting in commercials or getting small roles on television shows, never considering he would become a movie star.

In Los Angeles, Vaughn started taking acting lessons and in the beginning did pretty well with his plans. In 1989, he made his television acting debut on "China Beach" (1988-1991), and over the next couple of years had noteworthy roles in "Schoolbreak Specials" and guest appearances on "21 Jump Street" (Fox, 1987-1991) with Johnny Depp, and "Doogie Howser, M.D." (1989-1993). When not acting, Vince Vaughn put his charming gift at speaking to use as a telephone marketer.

In 1993, Vaughn got his first movie role in the football film "Rudy,” where he started a friendship with co-star Jon Favreau. An aspiring actor himself, Favreau was working on a dialoged drama about life as a troubled young actor looking for romance in the harsh and revolting Hollywood scene. He created a role for Vaughn as his foul mouthed, no confidence friend and partner in crime, so when the independent film was finished many years later, they had unintentionally fashioned a description of a time and place that sat well with millions of young, imaginative city slickers.

Subsequent to the popular success of “Swingers” (1996) with Heather Graham, the modestly impressive Vaughn was amazed to receive a role from Steven Spielberg to appear as the lead in the highly anticipated continuation, "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" (1997). The film was a box office runaway, and Vince Vaughn was on his way to becoming a super star and sexy celebrity. Even though the film was high profile, it didn't have the shine and enchantment of the first movie, and was swiftly forgotten.

The friendly sense of humor and levelheaded poise that had made Vaughn so charming in “Swingers” was not projected in his next couple of roles as the actor tried to plot a course through the slew of movie and film offers - while all along bringing home the big paychecks. After working with Kate Capshaw in the romantic drama "The Locusts" (1997) he was somewhat submissive as a tormented, guilt ridden wild man in "Return to Paradise" (1998).

He thankfully turned on the charm to star as a sociable con man truck driver in "Clay Pigeons" (1998) before he was misplayed in "Psycho" (1998). The frame by frame remake left most pundits and audiences seeking the exit doors. While Perkins had played an asexual subdued role, Vaughn went for utter lunacy and the disparity was shocking. The actor offered a considerably better role as a unexpectedly single father dealing with career and family difficulty in "A Cool, Dry Place" (1999) Vaughn's role failed to showcase his talents.

Vince went on to the role an FBI agent who gains the aid of a psychiatrist (Jennifer Lopez) to find the body of a killer in the over hyped production "The Cell" (2000). Vaughn’s role as the foster brother in legal trouble in "South of Heaven, West of Hell" (2000) with Billy Bob Thornton was shallow and not seen by many. But Vaughn gave a great performance in the film "The Prime Gig" (2000), playing a smooth telephone marketer who has the bad luck of being employed by the wrong businesses. His natural appeal blended with the script and let the actor present one of his best performances.

Finally, it looked like Vaughn was starting to focus on his seldom used comedy and improv talents, maybe as a result of his role in “Made.” His performance in a short film aired during the 2003 MTV Movie Awards as Hollywood Frank Fanning, in which he instructed Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz on the correct way to best show their butt on camera, was a comedic gold mine.

Vaughn astounded viewers with his clever role guest hosting CBS's "The Late Show" (CBS, 1993- ) in 2003 when David Letterman fell ill with shingles. The following year, with his role as comedic crime top dog Reese Feldman in the 1970s police lampoon "Starsky & Hutch" (2004) with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, Vaughn was legitimately an affiliate of Hollywood’s “Frat Pack.”

In 2004, Vince Vaughn took the lead in "Dodgeball" (2004), as the captivating owner of the "Average Joe" fitness center who pairs a group of misfits against Ben Stiller's vicious pros in a high tech game. He followed "Dodgeball" up with a key role as Will Ferrell’s opposition in "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" (2004). Then Vaughn gave his most entertaining performances, playing the gutless jive talking, pimp acting music manager Raji in "Be Cool" (2005), the enjoyable sequel to "Get Shorty" in which he improvised much of his script.

After a small role in the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spy thriller action blockbuster "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (2005), where he played Brad Pitt's immature cohort, Vaughn teamed with Owen Wilson for his largest hit yet. In the smash hit blockbuster "Wedding Crashers" (2005), Vaughn and Wilson co-starred as a team of adorable young bachelors who pick up lonesome, defenseless women by crashing strangers' weddings.

In the fall of 2005, Vaughn reunited with his high school variety show pedigree with the launch of “Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show,” a production featuring improvisation, sketch comedy, and stand-up routines. The tour, which also showcased sketches from Vaughn, was followed by a film crew and scheduled to be released as a documentary in early 2008.

During 2006, Vaughn took on his initial producing project with the payback comedy “The Break-up” (2006), co-starring himself and Jennifer Aniston as a divorcing couple under pressure to live together. Critics generally hated the movie, calling it a weak makeover of “The War of the Roses,” but it was mammoth at the box office, thanks in part to gossip of a relationship between the two stars. It was during the film’s Chicago editing that Jennifer Aniston was being overran by the paparazzi, due to her recent breakup with actor Brad Pitt and his obvious connection with his “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” co-star, Angelina Jolie.

In 2007, Vaughn graced the screen in two vastly different films, the spellbinding adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s “Into the Wild” and the madcap holiday flick “Fred Claus” about a man named Fred Claus, Santa's bitter older brother, who is forced to move to the North Pole. Next was the holiday comedy "Four Christmases" (2008) with Reese Witherspoon, about a couple that struggle to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day. Finally that year was the comedy "The H-Man Cometh" (2009) about a sarcastic radio call-in show host (Vaughn) who starts taking on the qualities of his neurotic patrons.

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