Vaughn was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to a wealthy family. His mother, Sharon Eileen ("née" DePalmo; born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada), is a real estate agent and stockbroker who was once ranked as one of the United States' top money managers by "Bloomberg Wealth Manager" magazine. His father, Vernon Lindsay Vaughn, worked as a salesman for a toy company. As a child, he was raised both Protestant and Catholic by his Catholic mother and Protestant father. He has Lebanese, Italian, Irish, English, and German ancestry. Vaughn grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, where he played football and baseball and wrestled, although he has called himself "unathletic" and "very average" at high school sports.
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Vince Vaughn | Early life
He grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, then moved to Lake Forest. He was introduced to musical theater at a young age and decided to become an actor in 1987 Buffalo Grove, Illinois. Buffalo Grove, Illinois He grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.
how many post credit scenes in ant mand and the wasp
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Two.
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what is this ant-man?
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It is an American superhero film.
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what is the storyline of this film?
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Two years after Scott Lang was placed under house arrest due to his involvement with the Avengers, in violation of the Sokovia Accords, Hank Pym and his daughter Hope van Dyne briefly manage to open a tunnel to the quantum realm.
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what is the definition of this aforesaid genre of film?
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Action, comedy.
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who directed the film mentioned?
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Peyton Reed.
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where is he from?
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Raleigh, North Carolina.
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how did he begin his career?
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Peyton Reed was a DJ for WXYC, the UNC student radio station, during his time enrolled at the university. He worked as a van driver on the set of Bull Durham in 1987, which was filmed in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. He also recorded music under the name manCHILD with UNC classmate Norwood Cheek.
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what are some films he made?
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"Bring It On", "Down with Love", "The Break-Up", "Yes Man", "Ant-Man" and its sequel, "Ant-Man and the Wasp".
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who are the main actors in the third one?
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Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston.
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who is the former actor?
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He is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian.
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where did he spend his early days?
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He then moved to Lake Forest, where he graduated from Lake Forest High School in 1988. He was introduced to musical theater at a young age and decided to become an actor in 1987. He has credited his mother as the inspiration behind his career, saying that "I saw her overcome stuff, and I thought if you worked hard at something you'd give yourself a chance".
Vince Vaughn | Early life
Robert Vaughn was born on November 22, 1932 in New York City, to Gerald Walter Vaughn, a radio actor, and his wife, Marcella Frances (Gaudel), a stage actress. His parents divorced, and Vaughn lived with his grandparents in Minneapolis while his mother traveled and performed. After high school, he enrolled in the University of Minnesota as a journalism major. However, he dropped out after a year and moved to Los Angeles with his mother. He studied at Los Angeles City College, then transferred to Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences, earning a master's degree in theater. He received a Ph.D.
Robert Vaughn | Early life
Vincent Promuto was born on June 8, 1938 in New York City.
Vince Promuto | Early life
He attended graduate school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in the summer of 1932.
Ralph A. Vaughn | Early life
Vaughn was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to a wealthy family. His mother, Sharon Eileen ("née" DePalmo; born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada), is a real estate agent and stockbroker who was once ranked as one of the United States' top money managers by "Bloomberg Wealth Manager" magazine. His father, Vernon Lindsay Vaughn, worked as a salesman for a toy company. As a child, he was raised both Protestant and Catholic by his Catholic mother and Protestant father. He has Lebanese, Italian, Irish, English, and German ancestry. Vaughn grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, where he played football and baseball and wrestled, although he has called himself "unathletic" and "very average" at high school sports.
Vince Vaughn | Early life
Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He reportedly began studying acting due to a mistake; a computer error in his high school registration scheduled him in an acting class, and he decided to stay. He attended Louisiana State University. For most of his life, Vince has had a condition called nystagmus which is the involuntary movement of the eye. He has tried to incorporate it into his roles.
Pruitt Taylor Vince | Early life
Vaughn was born in Brooklyn and attended Adelphi Academy. Upon graduating in 1915 he entered Princeton University. While at Princeton Vaughn learned how to fly Curtiss Jenny biplanes.
George Augustus Vaughn Jr. | Early life
Vaughn was born in Paddington, London, England. Until 2002, he had thought that he was the child of a relationship between his mother, Kathy Ceaton (died 20 July 2013), and American actor Robert Vaughn. A paternity investigation in the 1980s revealed that Robert Vaughn was not his father, but Ceaton never revealed otherwise to Vaughn. Upon asking his mother about his true paternity, she revealed that his father was George Albert Harley de Vere Drummond, an English aristocrat who is a godson of King George VI. Early in Vaughn's life, before the paternity investigation, Robert Vaughn asked for the child's surname to be Vaughn, and it continues today as Vaughn's professional name, though he now uses de Vere Drummond in his personal life.
Matthew Vaughn | Early life
Taylor spent his early life in Isleworth, Middlesex. When he was seven, the Holdens emigrated to America and settled in New Jersey where his father found employment. Around 1955, his sister, Sheila, married Joe Barbera, of Hanna-Barbera. As a result of the marriage, the family moved to California, where Taylor attended Hollywood High School. As a teenager, Taylor took flying lessons and obtained a pilot's licence.
Vince Taylor | Early life
Vince Fong was born in Bakersfield, California. Fong graduated from West High School.
Vince Fong | Early life
Vaughn was educated at Sussex House School in London and then Stowe School in Buckingham. Taking a gap year between Stowe and university, he travelled around the world on a Hard Rock Cafe tour. After arriving in Los Angeles he began working as an assistant to a film director. He later returned to London, and attended University College London studying anthropology and ancient history. He dropped out after a few weeks.
Matthew Vaughn | Early life
Schiavelli was born in Brooklyn to a Sicilian-American family, the son of John Schiavelli and Katherine Coco. He attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn. He studied acting through the theatre program at New York University and began performing on stage in the 1960s.
Vincent Schiavelli | Early life
Vincent was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Maywood, New Jersey.
Alex Vincent (actor) | Early life
Martin was born as Vincent Markesteijn in the Netherlands about 1955, and raised in Australia from the age of 7.
Vince Martin (actor) | Early life
Proby was born in Wichita County, Texas and moved with his family to Los Angeles. He studied at Los Angeles high schools, Los Angeles Junior College, and University of Southern California.
Vince Proby | Early life
His mother provided as much wisdom for him as she could, for which Vince often credits her as his eventual sculptor in life. After pursuing a military career and further education, Sanders moved to Chicago, where he studied speech and drama under the renowned Ethel Minns Lucas of the Chicago Conservatory and the EML School of Speech and Drama.
Vince Sanders | Early life
"I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for Jackie. She was a wonderful lady and a real inspiration," he recalls. Gilligan was recognized for his talents and creativity at an early age. George Sr. described him as a "kind of a studious-type young man, and he liked to read, and he had a vivid imagination". He introduced Gilligan to film noir classics, as well as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood Westerns on late-night television. Gilligan won a scholarship to attend the prestigious Interlochen Center for the Arts. After eighth grade, he moved back to Chesterfield to attend high school.
Vince Gilligan | Early life
Vincent Kennedy McMahon was born on August 24, 1945, in Pinehurst, North Carolina, the younger son of Victoria (née Askew) and Vincent James McMahon. His father left the family when McMahon was still a baby and took his elder son Rod with him, so McMahon did not meet him until age 12. McMahon's paternal grandfather was promoter Roderick James "Jess" McMahon, whose parents were Irish immigrants from County Galway. His paternal grandmother, Rose Davis, was also of Irish descent. McMahon was raised as Vinnie Lupton and spent the majority of his childhood living with his mother and a string of stepfathers.
Vince McMahon | Early life
Ventresca was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. The youngest of eleven children, Ventresca graduated from Indiana University with a double major in theater and psychology. In 1995, he married Dianne Shiner, his high school sweetheart, and they have two children: a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Renée Marie.
Vincent Ventresca | Early life
Sherman was born Abraham Orovitz to Jewish parents. He was born and raised in the small town of Vienna, Georgia, where his father was a dry-goods salesman. Not long after graduating from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, he became a professional actor.
Vincent Sherman | Early life
Vaughn was born in Abbeville, Alabama. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and government from Fisk University and attended the University of Illinois College of Law for one year.
Edward Vaughn | Early life and education
Taylor was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a graduate of Northeastern University and the Leland Powers School of Elocution, Boston. Instead of pursuing a career in accounting, he tried summer stock theatre in Maine. After army service in World War II, he broke into TV. His wife Ruth Moss was a radio personality and Broadway actress.
Vaughn Taylor (actor) | Early years
Vaughn was born in Columbus, Montana in 1920, the son of Elijah H. Vaughn and Blair (Cox) Vaughn. Vaughn grew up in Montana where his father managed a retail store and eventually owned the Vaughn and Ragsdale stores. Vaughn moved with his family to Albion, Michigan in 1931 where his father managed a chain of clothing stores in Michigan and Montana. Vaughn attended Albion Public Schools and graduated from Albion High School in 1939. Vaughn earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan in 1943.
Jack Vaughn | Early life and education
After two years at Ohio State, he transferred to the University of Hawaii where he spent much time training as a swimmer for the Olympics.
Vince Edwards | Early Life
Colosimo was born in Melbourne, one of four children of Italian-born parents from Calabria. He grew up in the inner city suburb of Carlton North.
Vince Colosimo | Early life
Vince Matthew Chung was born in Toronto, Canada the son of an accountant and a university lecturer and spent his early life there. He attended public school number 207 and his favorite subject was the gym. At middle school he represented Ontario internationally in swimming competitions, specializing in breast-stroke and also held several provincial records when he was younger. Later he studied kinesiology at York University and Education at the University of Toronto. In 2003 in a move to rediscover his roots, he relocated to Hong Kong, where he started out with a career in education, but after a short time, his love for the theatre and acting drove him to follow these pursuits professionally.
Vince Matthew Chung | Early life
William, his parents, and his two brothers, Charles and Houghton, lived on 24th Avenue, a few street away from his paternal grandfather's home. Later, they moved to a farm in the affluent suburb of Brentwood, Tennessee. He was educated at the Robertson Academy, where he skipped the eighth grade, and at the Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville. He went on to graduate from Vanderbilt University in 1923, where he studied German and Mathematics and he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and Class Poet. He was then a Rhodes scholar at the Christ Church, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics.
William S. Vaughn | Early life
Spano was born in Brooklyn, New York to Italian-American parents Vincent and Theresa.
Vincent Spano | Early life
Bronx, New York-born and Long Island-raised, Travalena moved to Los Angeles and developed a multifaceted career with his characterizations of visible public figures.
Fred Travalena | Early life
Born and raised in San Francisco, California, he was educated at that city's Lowell High School. Soon after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, he served a stint in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. He was active in producing shows while he was in the Army Air Corps. After his military service, he began his acting career.
Stafford Repp | Early life
Marzello was born in the New York borough of Brooklyn on July 4, 1951. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Vincent Marzello | Early life
He worked there and experimented with training protocols before opening his own gym in North Hollywood, California in 1948 called Vince's Gym.
Vince Gironda | Early life and career
Neil was born in Hollywood, California to Shirley (née Ortiz) and Clois "Odie" Wharton. He has Mexican ancestry on his mother's side and Native American ancestry on his father's. During the 1960s, his family moved around Southern California from Inglewood to Watts, before finally settling in Glendora, attending Sunflower Intermediate School and later Royal Oak High School. As well as having an interest in music while a teenager, Neil was also interested in surfing, basketball, baseball, football and wrestling.
Vince Neil | Early life
Vincent Anthony Vaughn (born March 28, 1970) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. Vaughn began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before attaining wider recognition with the 1996 comedy-drama film "Swingers". He has appeared in a number of films in the 1990s, including the sports film "Rudy" (1993), the sci-fi adventure dinosaur film "" (1997), the drama-thriller "Return to Paradise" (1998) and the remake of psychological thriller "Psycho" (1998). Other than his dramatic role in "The Cell" (2000), and "Domestic Disturbance" (2001), in the 2000s he acted primarily in comedies, including "Old School" (2003), "" (2004), "Wedding Crashers" (2005), "The Break-Up" (2006), "Fred Claus" (2007), and "Four Christmases" (2008).
Vince Vaughn | Introduction
He learned English, and in the fall of 1858 traveled to Rome, New York, in the United States to visit his brother Hugh, who had emigrated to the U.S. a year earlier. Vaughan traveled to America without telling his parents (doing so only after he arrived), and fully intended to return to Wales. After three months, he traveled to Palmyra, New York, to visit his father's sister. He stayed there a year, then moved to Youngstown, Ohio, where he worked as a coal miner and farmer. Hugh having moved to McLean County, Illinois, Vaughan moved from Youngstown to live with his brother.
Robert Vaughn (Montana) | Early life and career
Steckler was born in Los Angeles, but aged two moved to Garden Grove, Orange County. He earned bachelor's degrees in mathematics and information and computer science from the University of California, Irvine.
Vince Steckler | Early life
Vince Sanders (aka Vinson J. Sanders) was born in 1935 on a small farm in Waldo, Florida, a sprawling railroad community about 50 miles south of Jacksonville. His mother and his father divorced when Vince was six months old, thereby relegating much of his formative years to the tutelage of his grandparents. After being forced to adjust to several schools, Vince wound up at the historic Jones High School in Orlando in 1948. In his junior year of high school, he suffered a dislocated hip, causing him to sit out a full school term. Following his mother's second marriage, he became a permanent resident of Orlando, with a new stepfather.
Vince Sanders | Early life
Vincent Liff was born circa 1951. His uncle Biff Liff, was a Broadway manager and producer.
Vincent Liff | Early life
Born Thomas Wade Vaughn on October 14, 1936, in Benton, Kentucky, he began his music study on the piano around the age of five under the tutelage of his mother, Elizabeth. The piano was the instrument of choice for their family. Robert Wade, an uncle, was employed as a pianist by the New York and San Francisco ballet companies. When he was 10 years old, his family, which also included four girls, relocated to Pontiac, Michigan, near Detroit. During his adolescence, he studied classical music with Harold Deremier. At the age of 12, Vaughn experienced the genius of Art Tatum, who was visiting Deremier.
Tom Vaughn (musician) | Early life
Powell was born as Vincent Joseph Smith to Roman Catholic parents in Miles Platting, Manchester. When he was five, his mother died; two years later, his father remarried. Powell began a career as a tailor following the lead of his father, while performing as a comedian in the evenings. It was on the local club circuit that Powell first met Harry Driver. A performing partnership under the name Hammond and Powell lasted until 1955 when Driver's health and physical mobility became severely impaired by the onset of polio.
Vince Powell | Early life
Valeriano was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of a born-again preacher, and raised in New Jersey. Valeriano was working as a caterer for a restaurant in California when he decided to pursue a full-time career in comedy.
Murray Valeriano | Early life
Years later, Vincent found himself in the same rigid system his father was in. He served in the California Army National Guard, and remained in the National Guard Reserve until 1971.
Jan-Michael Vincent | Early life
Vos grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey "in an all black neighborhood", and was raised Jewish. His parents divorced when he was young, and he did not graduate from high school. A fan of stand-up comedy since he was a child, Vos was influenced by watching it on television, particularly acts featured on "The Ed Sullivan Show".
Rich Vos | Early life
Boeven was born in Menden (Sauerland), Germany. He studied acting from 1991-1993 at UCLA and the Actors Center in Los Angeles, and then at the Hollywood Acting Workshop in Cologne with Cheryl Franklin.
Jim Boeven | Early life
McMahon was born in South Norwalk, Connecticut. He became interested in acting when he was a student at Fordham University School of Law.
Horace McMahon | Early years
Vincent was born on December 28, 1872 in Denver, Colorado. He graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Henry B. Vincent | Early life
He later moved to Hollywood and began a lengthy career in film and television.
Dick Van Patten | Early life
He entered the Episcopal priesthood, and in 1964 his first position was assistant to the rector at "St. John's Episcopal Church" in Midland, Michigan, two hours north of Detroit. Vaughn still played concerts at colleges and clubs sporadically, but the 8am Sunday service limited his travel. That same year Father Tom sat in with Gene Krupa's quartet in Detroit, where he caught the attention of producer George Wein.
Tom Vaughn (musician) | Early life
Cavanaugh was an only child who grew up in Vallejo, California; his parents split when he was young. Cavanaugh started performing as a child and did a Young Actor's Workshop at a local community college. Cavanaugh attended Diablo Valley College before transferring to Arizona State University (ASU), where he majored in theatre. Cavanaugh was on the ASU improv team. Cavanaugh is a faculty member of John Rosenfeld Studios in West Hollywood.
Patrick Cavanaugh | Early Life
DiMaggio was born in Martinez, California. Older than Joe and Dom, Vince was discovered first, and the teenage Joe used to enviously watch him play professional ball. Blessed with some power and good fielding, Vince once claimed that he could run rings around Joe in the outfield.
Vince DiMaggio | Early life
They eventually divorced in 1977.
Vince Lee (explorer) | Early life and education
Flynn was one of seven children born to Terry and Kathleen Flynn, and a graduate of Saint Thomas Academy (1984) and the University of St. Thomas with a B.A in Economics (1989).
Vince Flynn | Early life and education
Later in life, he would explain to others that he was close to graduating, but his desire to start and support a family forced him to leave law school and get a job. He would also join the Brooklyn Eagles.
Vince Lombardi | Early career
Lozzi was born on January 28, 1932 in Everett, Massachusetts. He attended public schools in Everett and graduated from Merrimack College's School of Industrial Relations in 1962.
Vincent Lozzi | Early life
The son of actor and theatre producer Chandler Cowles, he was born in New York City.
Matthew Cowles | Early life
Gilligan was born on February 10, 1967 in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Gail, a grade school teacher, and George Vincent Gilligan Sr., an insurance claims adjuster. His parents divorced in 1974 and he and his younger brother, Patrick, were raised in Farmville and Chesterfield County, and attended J.P. Wynne Campus School, the laboratory school run by Longwood College where his mother also taught, and he would later use the name “J.P. Wynne” for the fictional high school that Walter White teaches at in "Breaking Bad". Growing up, Gilligan became best friends with future film editor and film title designer Angus Wall.
Vince Gilligan | Early life
Early is from Nashville, Tennessee. His father was a Presbyterian minister; his mother, a minister at a church of the Disciples of Christ. He attended the University School of Nashville. He graduated from New York University where he majored in acting. When he was 11, he became a big fan of Australian actress Toni Collette and ran a fan website devoted to her.
John Early (comedian) | Early life
Born in Ashland, Kentucky, Vaughn was the sister of actress Adamae Vaughn.
Alberta Vaughn | Early years
John Crawford Vaughn was born in 1824 on a farm in Monroe County, Tennessee. He probably explored the hills and valleys of East Tennessee on horseback as a youth. From 1830 through 1841 he attended Bolivar Academy in Madisonville, Tennessee.
John C. Vaughn | Early life and military career
Jenkins was born on Long Island, New York. He graduated from Fenger High School in Chicago, Illinois, where he was on the baseball and bowling teams. He attended Olive–Harvey College for a year, then Southern Illinois University for a year, then Pepperdine University in California (so he could pursue an acting career), making Dean's List at all schools.
Larry &quot;Flash&quot; Jenkins | Early life, family and education
He studied theatre at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; he dropped out to pursue acting and stand-up comedy.
Larry Wilmore | Early life
Giuntoli returned to St. Louis after college. However, his heart was in being an entertainer instead of a career in finance, something his family realized early on as he always enjoyed making people laugh from a young age. Reconnecting with his high school theater teacher, he began taking acting lessons locally.
David Giuntoli | Early life
Bodē was born in Utica, New York, the son of Kenneth and Elsie Bodé. His surname suggests German heritage. Vaughn was one of four children, including his older brother Victor and younger siblings Vincent and Valerie. Vaughn's father was an alcoholic; he started drawing as a way of escaping a less-than-happy childhood. Bodē's parents divorced when he was around ten years old, and he was sent to live with an uncle near Washington, D.C. After joining the Army at age 19, Bodē went AWOL but later received an honorable discharge due to a psychiatric diagnosis. Bodē married Barbara Hawkins at age 20 in 1961.
Vaughn Bodē | Early life
Demuzio was born May 7, 1941, in Gillespie. He attended SS. Simon and Jude Catholic School and Gillespie High School. He went on to become Executive Director of the Illinois Valley Economic Development Corporation.
Vince Demuzio | Early life
Ary was raised in Ada, Oklahoma. He received his BA from Northwestern Oklahoma State University in 1984 and his JD from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1987.
Vaughn Ary | Early life
Vince Frost was born in Brighton, England and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He returned to the United Kingdom at the age of sixteen, where he completed his design education at West Sussex College of Design.
Vince Frost | Early life
Tommy continued to hone his acting skills appearing in local theatre productions and in sketch comedy at the HA! Comedy Club in New York.
Tommy Savas | Early life
Montgomery was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He graduated from Ball State University with a degree in performance theater and drama. Montgomery did stand-up comedy briefly after graduation, before moving to California.
Anthony Montgomery | Early life
Vincent Gallo was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Janet, a hairdresser, and Vincenzo Vito Gallo, also a hairdresser and professional gambler. Both of his parents emigrated from Sicily, Italy.
Vincent Gallo | Early life
He subsequently relocated to San Francisco, California to attend the American Conservatory Theater.
Don Johnson | Early life
Vance was born on March 12, 1960 in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Leslie Anita (Daniels), a librarian, and Conroy Vance, a grocery store manager and benefits administrator. He attended Detroit Country Day School and later graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. While attending Harvard, Vance was already working as an actor at the Boston Shakespeare Company. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree later at Yale School of Drama where he met fellow student and future wife Angela Bassett.
Courtney B. Vance | Early life
Henley was born on October 2, 1962, in Oxford, Alabama, and was a graduate of Auburn University. He was set to become a stockbroker before he landed a spot in comedy.
Vic Henley | Early life
Nicholas Cuccia was born in Manhattan, New York City. His real surname was Italian and too hard to pronounce, so he took a stage name, Cravat, from a character in a play he had seen and liked.
Nick Cravat | Early life
Ditrich grew up in Lethbridge, Alberta. He began playing drums as a child, and performed in his father's local band as a teenager.
Vince Ditrich | Early life
In New York, he studied acting at HB Studio.
Victor Garber | Early life
Born in The Bronx, New York City to immigrants from Greece, he was one of five children: brothers Telly, Gus and Ted; and sister Katherine. He attended Holy Cross Institute in Connecticut and Mineola High School (Long Island). He served in the Pacific War as a United States Navy gunner but also acted, produced and directed stage performances on military bases. He studied drama at Columbia University.
George Savalas | Early life
Born to a farming family in Virden, Illinois, Vaniman was the eldest of four sons and attended Valparaiso University in Indiana and Chicago.
Melvin Vaniman | Early life
Their son Mark was born in 1963. Barbara divorced Bodē in 1972, and he moved to San Francisco in 1973 (with some of his underground contemporaries, including Robbins and Spain).
Vaughn Bodē | Early life
James Clayton Vaughn Jr. was born in Mobile, Alabama, on April 13, 1950, the eldest son of James Clayton Vaughn Sr. and Helen Rau Vaughn, and brother to Carolyn, Marilyn and Gordon. Vaughn's father was a World War II veteran and butcher who left the family when Vaughn was aged eight. His sister Carolyn recalled, "Whenever [Vaughn Sr.] came to visit he'd beat us," and their mother had Vaughn Sr. jailed twice for public drunkenness. Vaughn's mother was described by a family friend as "a full-blooded German, a real strict, perfectionist lady. I never saw her beat any of [her children], but they told me stories." Vaughn later stated that he was rarely given enough to eat and suffered severe physical abuse as a child, and that his mother "didn't care about [him and his siblings]".
Joseph Paul Franklin | Early life
Vincent, who was of Italian descent with roots in Sicily and Naples, was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father, Frank Vincent Gattuso Sr., was an iron worker and businessman. He had two brothers, Nick and Jimmy, and a half-sister, Fran.
Frank Vincent | Early life
Gironda was born in The Bronx, New York. While he was still a young child, the family moved out west to Los Angeles when his father, a stuntman, was offered work in the upcoming "Ben Hur" film. Vince tried his hand at being a stuntman as well but when he saw a photograph of John Grimek, he realized he needed more physical development and began lifting weights at the age of 22. The first gym he trained at was the local YMCA. He was there for approximately eight months before moving to the Easton Brothers' gym. The Easton brothers taught him to be one of their instructors.
Vince Gironda | Early life and career
Sam Vernon was born in Brooklyn, NY and attended Suitland High School.
Sam Vernon | Early life
Verbinski was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the third of five children of Laurette Ann (McGovern) and Victor Vincent Verbinski, a nuclear physicist. His father was of Polish descent.
Gore Verbinski | Early life
Clark was born in Lynchburg, Virginia. His father was a factory worker and his mother owned a general store. His parents divorced when he was 5 and when he was 12, the family moved to a tobacco farm 50 miles south, where his stepfather lived. Clark was named College Entertainer of the Year while studying at Emerson College. Clark graduated from Emerson in 1986 with a degree in mass communications. After college, Clark broke into stand-up comedy, performing gigs at Los Angeles comedy clubs.
Anthony Clark (actor) | Early life
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C. C. Vaughn | Early life
Vaughn continued acting as he attended Lee High School and performed in several productions while attending Birmingham-Southern College. It was there that Vaughn decided to pursue acting as a career. He drove to New York with just $600 and initially stayed with a family acquaintance, making the commute to New York City from Peekskill. While taking classes at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, Vaughn made ends meet by working as a doorman at New York's Wellington Hotel. Vaughn has described this as his favorite non-acting job. Standing in front of the hotel door in Midtown Manhattan, seeing people from all walks of life, Vaughn has said he got a crash course in human nature.
Ned Vaughn | Early life and education
He claimed that one of his stepfathers, Leo Lupton, used to beat his mother and attacked McMahon when he tried to protect her. He later said, "It is unfortunate that he died before I could kill him. I would have enjoyed that." He attended Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro, Virginia, graduating in 1964. In his early life, he also overcame dyslexia.
Vince McMahon | Early life
Barnett was born July 4, 1902, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Luke Barnett, a well-known comedian who specialized in insulting and pulling practical jokes on his audiences. (Luke's professional nickname was "Old Man Ribber" and "the King of Ribbing".) Barnett graduated from Duquesne University Prep School and the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). An avid amateur pilot, he flew mail planes for a couple of years. The diminutive, chrome-domed Barnett appeared on Broadway in the 1926 edition of "Earl Carroll's Vanities".
Vince Barnett | Early years
Viener was born in New York City, New York.
John Viener | Early life
Vincent was born on 15 July 1879 in Faenza, Ravenna, Italy to James and Rosa Pasi, the youngest of six children.
Vincent Cimatti | Early life
Van Engelen was born in San Diego, California, United States (US).
Anthony Van Engelen | Early life
Vicari grew up in Southern California. His mother was a singer and his uncles were musicians, exposing him to artists like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole from an early age. During his teenage years, he was drawn by artists of the British Invasion, especially The Beatles.
Tommy Vicari | Early life
Haworth was born in Cleveland in 1917 and grew up in the suburb of Willoughby, Ohio. His father, William, was a playwright and theatrical producer. He attended the University of Southern California.
Ted Haworth | Early years
Powell was born in Bernice, Louisiana. He was inspired by the example of New York Knicks player Willis Reed, who also grew up in Bernice, to become an entertainer. Before getting into comedy, Powell was a trucker.
Dante Powell (comedian) | Early life
D'Onofrio was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He is of Italian descent, with ancestors from Naples. His parents Gennaro and Phyllis D'Onofrio met while Gennaro was stationed in Hawaii with the U.S. Air Force. His father was trained as an interior decorator but spent most of his spare time in amateur theater. Vincent is the youngest of three siblings. In 1956, they had their first child, Antoinette. Their second child, Elizabeth (born 1957), is an actress and drama coach residing in Fort Myers Beach, Florida. He was raised in Hawaii and Colorado during his early years. D'Onofrio's parents divorced when he was young; his mother later married George Meyer.
Vincent D'Onofrio | Early life
He soon started using jokes in his presentation, discovering he could make his classmates laugh. He then started performing for church groups, schools and American Legion posts. By the time he was a teenager, he started earning money competing in amateur talent contests held at the local movie theatres, where the prize was five dollars for the most popular act.
Jimmy Nelson (ventriloquist) | Early life
Vito Delsante was born in 1973 in Staten Island, New York, United States. He attended high school in Ford City, Pennsylvania, and the University of Pittsburgh. He now resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Vito Delsante | Early life
Piazza was born and raised in Queens, New York. His father is Italian, having immigrated to the United States in the early-1960s. His mother is of German descent. He recalls humble beginnings and a prideful work ethic gained from watching his father work multiple jobs to support the family that included a younger brother and one older sister. Vincent also credits his mother's large German family for allowing several travels across the United States to visit distant relatives who encouraged him to find his passion, and see the world's many treasures. Attending academic and athletic national powerhouse Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, Vince lettered in soccer and hockey, receiving scholarships for academics and hockey, as well as National Honor Society.
Vincent Piazza | Early life and education
Colby was born in Arlington, Massachusetts. He studied at Bridgewater State University and Brooklyn College. He moved to Manhattan in the 1980s to pursue his stage career.
James Colby | Early life
Vince was born William D. Vince in British Columbia in 1963. Vince was Robert Vince's brother.
William Vince | Personal life