Vince Vaughn: Snapshot
- Name
- Vince Vaughn
- Date of Birth
- March 28, 1970
- Birth Place
- Buffalo Grove, Ill.
Vaughn's fast-talking, giddy, manic energy made hits out of Dodgeball, Old School and The Wedding Crashers. It even turned the Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy The Break-Up into a commercial hit, eventually spawning a well-publicized off-screen romance as well. But the Aniston-Vaughn pairing was plagued with media scrutiny, and they eventually called it quits. Vaughn, who got engaged to girlfriend Kyla Weber in 2009, has since appeared in Sean Penn's Into the Wild and the holiday comedy Four Christmases.
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Vince Vaughn: Five Fun Facts
- Vince Vaughn was a little dismayed when his action figure from 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park didn't resemble him, claiming to Entertainment Weekly that its lederhosen-like attire and short, husky features "look like my figure should come with a yodeling mechanism."
- While filming The Break-Up, Vince Vaughn quit smoking and packed on 25 pounds. But he picked up the habit again and quickly lost the extra weight.
- Perhaps honing the smooth-talking skills that would characterize so many of his movie characters, Vince Vaughn's first job was as a telemarketer.
- In 2000, Vince Vaughn played a wannabe Hollywood player whose real job ended up being a house sitter for actress Carrie Fisher in an L.A.-based episode of Sex and the City. On the set, the two guest stars "were hysterical," writer and consulting producer Jenny Bicks told PEOPLE. "At one point Carrie Fisher was spotted wearing a pair of women's panties on her head."
- Vernon and Sharon Vaughn gave their kids – Victoria, Valerie and Vince – double V names. The trend also extended to their family pets. "We'd end up with dogs named Vanidus or Vero or Vladimir," Vince Vaughn told Oprah in 2006.
Vince Vaughn: Biography 
- 1986
Not Much of a Player
Outside of Chicago, Vince Vaughn plays football and wrestles in high school. "I didn't like it when they started yelling at you and started taking it real serious," he tells ESPN. "They were like, 'If you want it bad enough, run around the block,' and I realized that I didn't want it bad enough to run around the block." He turns to acting, lands a Chevrolet commercial, and moves to Hollywood in 1988.
- 1993
You're Money, Baby
While filming his first speaking role in the football flick Rudy, Vaughn meets costar Jon Favreau. They become quick pals. When Favreau writes Swingers, about a group of struggling actor pals, he uses Vaughn's real-life vernacular ("money," "honeys" and "babies") in his script. In 1996, Swingers becomes a low-budget, indie comedy with Vaughn starring as Trent Walker, a fast-talking, funny ladies' man.
- 1996
In Spielberg's Lost World
After seeing Vaughn in an early screening of Swingers, Steven Spielberg casts the unknown in his Jurassic Park sequel, The Lost World. "It's so strange to think, 'Okay, I'm going to work with Steven Spielberg and Julianne Moore,'" Vaughn tells Entertainment Weekly. The blockbuster grosses nearly $93 million its opening weekend
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