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Vince Vaughn (born March 28, 1970Vince Vaughn is an American actor.

He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Vernon Lindsay Vaughn (a Protestant salesman of Scottish, Irish and German descent) and Sharon Eileen DePalmo (a Canadian-born Catholic real-estate agent of Italian and Lebanese descent). He grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois and then Lake Forest, Illinois, where he graduated from Lake Forest High School and was interested in theatre at a young age. He is frequently cast into roles as a light-hearted, confident, and over-talkative risk taker.

He obtained a role in a Chevrolet television commercial early in his acting career and felt that he was set. After moving to Hollywood, he became a struggling actor facing rejection after rejection. He appeared in a few spots on television but finally got a speaking role in the movie . Favreau wrote Vaughn into the film. While the latter signed on only as a favor to his friend, the role would become his breakthrough. Steven Spielberg saw him in in 2001 (another Favreau film). Since 2003, Vince Vaughn's movie career has skyrocketed and he is now considered a very bankable star. That year he had a major role in the hit movie Old School and in 2004 he was seen alongside Ben Stiller in the hits , starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

He starred alongside fellow Frat Pack friend Owen Wilson, in the 2005 comedy , his latest film which has grossed a little over $200 million dollars at the box office. He has a starring role in He doesn't like cell phones and doesn't own one. When given one while working on a movie, he usually ends up losing it.He has quit smoking. Was banned from Wilmington, N.C. bars, and told to undergo an alcohol assessment. Later he was fined $250 for an April brawl (2001).Considered as the leader of Frat Pack, along with Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, and Ben Stiller.Despite being a lackluster student during high school, Vaughn was voted class president which he revealed in an interview with Movieline Magazine. Vaughn also claimed that he was later admitted to a class for special students, given that he had a hard time paying attention to the teacher.