Vince Vaughn Biography

Vince Vaughn played the smooth-talking best friend, Trent, in the low-budget and critically-acclaimed 1996 comedy Swingers.

He was then picked by Steven Spielberg to star in Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997, co-starring Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore), paving the way for a long and successful career as a laid-back leading man.

After The Lost World he starred in a few forgettable dramas, including high-profile box office flops such as Gus Van Sant‘s 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock‘s Psycho and the horror-thriller The Cell (2000, starring Jennifer Lopez).

But Vince Vaughn hit his stride with a string of comedies, playing various combinations of scruffy underdogs, sidekicks, and semi-sincere ladies’ men in films like Old School (2003, with Will Ferrell), Starsky & Hutch (with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (again with Stiller), and Be Cool (2005, with John Travolta).

He played a sly womanizer in Wedding Crashers (2005, with Wilson and Isla Fisher) and then starred with Jennifer Aniston in the romantic comedy The Break-Up (2006). The latter film put his face in the tabloids as he and Aniston began dating during filming, not long after her separation from actor Brad Pitt (who had in turn begun a relationship with Angelina Jolie).

Vaughn’s other films include the ain’t-family-terrible comedy Four Christmases (2008, with Reese Witherspoon), and Couples Retreat (2009). In 2015 he starred with Rachel McAdams and Colin Farrell in the second season of the cable series True Detective.