Vincent Anthony Vaughn was born on March 28, 1970, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA and raised in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. His parents were Vernon Vaughn, a salesman, and Sharon Vaughn, a real-estate agent and stockbroker. They later divorced in 1991. He also has two older sisters named Victoria Vaughn and Valeri Vaughn. Vince was interested in theater early on and grabbed a spot in a Chevy commercial. Figuring he was set, he packed his bags and headed for Hollywood only to become a struggling actor losing - www.imdb.com

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. - www.people.com

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 career as a laid-back leading man. After The Lost World he starred in a series of forgettable features, including high-profile box office flops such as Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and the horror-thriller T - www.answers.com