Vince Vaughn
Birthplace: Minneapolis
Born: 1970-03-28
Occupations recorded in source
actor; character actor; comedian; film actor; film producer; screenwriter; television actor; television producer; writer
Biography from Wikipedia
Vincent Anthony Vaughn (born March 28, 1970) is an American actor. He is known for starring as a leading man in numerous comedy films during the late 1990s and 2000s. He has won a Critics' Choice Award and earned nominations for a Actors Award and a Emmy 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 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (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).
Sources & attribution
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Films in Cinema Hound
Acting
- Zoolander (2001) — Luke Zoolander
- South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000) — Taylor Henry
- The Cell (2000) — Peter Novak
- The Prime Gig (2000) — Pendelton "Penny" Wise
- A Cool, Dry Place (1998) — Russell Durrell
- Clay Pigeons (1998) — Lester Long
- Psycho (1998) — Norman Bates
- Return to Paradise (1998) — John 'Sheriff' Volgecherev
- The Locusts (1997) — Clay Hewitt
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) — Nick Van Owen
- Swingers (1996) — Trent Walker.
- Rudy (1993) — Jamie O'Hara
Catalogue credits: Wikidata and Open Media Database. Sources & licences.
