Vince Vaughn, born Vincent Anthony Vaughn, is an American film actor, screenwriter, producer, comedian and a liberal activist. His family, of Irish, Lebanese, German and English ancestry, hails from Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was born on March 28, 1970. Vaughn made his debut in the 1980s with small television roles, then scored his breakout role, a star-making one at that, in the well-received comedy "Swingers" (1996) with Jon Favreau. He's since appeared in Spielberg's "The Lost World: Jurassic Park," "Old School," "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story," "Wedding Crashers," a box office smash hit, "Into the Wild," "The Break Up" and "The Internship," reuniting with his fellow wedding crasher Owen Wilson.