Matthew Vaughn

Matthew Allard Robert Vaughn (born 7 March 1971) is an English film producer, director, and screenwriter.[1] He has produced films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), and directed Layer Cake (2004), Stardust (2007), Kick-Ass (2010), X-Men: First Class (2011), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), and its sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), and will write and direct its prequel The King's Man (2020).

"Matthew Vaughan" redirects here. For the politician, see Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth.

Matthew Vaughn
Vaughn in 2019
Born	(1971-03-07) 7 March 1971 Paddington, London, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Producer, director, screenwriter
Years active	1996–present
Spouse(s)	Claudia Schiffer ( m. 2002)
Children	3

Early life

Vaughn was born in Paddington, London, England.[2] 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.[3] A paternity investigation[2] 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,[3][4] 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.[3]

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.

Career

Aged 25, Vaughn produced a low-budget thriller, The Innocent Sleep (1996), starring Annabella Sciorra and Michael Gambon.[5] He continued as a producer on close friend Guy Ritchie's film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The film was a critical, popular and financial success, earning Vaughn and Ritchie £9 million each. Vaughn would later produce Ritchie's Snatch and Swept Away.

Vaughn made his directorial debut in 2004 with Layer Cake. The film was well received and its success led to Vaughn being tapped to direct X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), but he dropped out only two weeks before filming began. Subsequently, he was very critical of Brett Ratner's direction of the film. For his next project he co-wrote and directed Stardust, followed by a movie adaptation of Mark Millar's Kick-Ass in 2010. Vaughn directed and co-wrote the first film in the prequel trilogy of the X-Men film universe titled, X-Men: First Class (2011).[6] Vaughn was signed to return to the series as director of the sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), but dropped out in favour of Bryan Singer who had directed the first two films in the original trilogy, X-Men and X2: X-Men United. Vaughn remained attached to the film by co-writing the script.[7] Vaughn's next directorial project, was Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), an adaptation of Mark Millar and David Gibbons's comic book The Secret Service. The film was scripted by Vaughn and Jane Goldman, and produced by Vaughn's production company Marv Films.[8][9][10][11][12][13]

Vaughn returned to direct, produce, and co-write the Kingsman sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, which was released in theaters in September 2017.

In March 2017, Collider reported that Vaughn was top choice to direct Man of Steel 2.[14] In September of that year, Vaughn confirmed that he is in negotiations with the studio to helm the project.[15]

As of 2020 Vaughn is currently working on finishing up The King's Man, which is the third installment in the Kingsman franchise.

Personal life

On 25 May 2002, Vaughn married German model Claudia Schiffer in Suffolk.[16] The couple have three children: son Caspar Matthew de Vere (born 30 January 2003) and daughters Clementine Poppy (born 11 November 2004) and Cosima Violet (born 14 May 2010).[17][18] The couple have homes in Notting Hill, London and Coldham Hall, Stanningfield, Suffolk.[19]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2004	Layer Cake	Yes	No	Yes	Empire Award for Best British Director Nominated – BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer Nominated – British Independent Douglas Hickox Award Nominated – Empire Award for Best Newcomer
2007	Stardust	Yes	Yes	Yes	Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
2010	Kick-Ass	Yes	Yes	Yes	Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Original Screenplay Nominated – British Independent Film Award for Best Director Nominated – British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Action Movie Nominated – Empire Award for Best Director Nominated – European Film Award for Best Film Nominated – Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Film Nominated – Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Screenplay Nominated – SFX Award for Best Film
	The Debt	No	Yes	Yes	Directed by John Madden
2011	X-Men: First Class	Yes	Yes	No	Nominated – Scream Award for Best Director
2014	X-Men: Days of Future Past	No	Story	No	Directed by Bryan Singer
	Kingsman: The Secret Service	Yes	Yes	Yes
2017	Kingsman: The Golden Circle	Yes	Yes	Yes
2020	The King's Man	Yes	Yes	Yes

Producer only

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1996	The Innocent Sleep	Scott Michell
1998	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Guy Ritchie	Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best British Film
2000	Snatch
2001	Mean Machine	Barry Skolnick
2002	Swept Away	Guy Ritchie	Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture
2003	A Short Film About John Bolton	Neil Gaiman	Short film
2009	Harry Brown	Daniel Barber
2013	Kick-Ass 2	Jeff Wadlow
2015	Fantastic Four	Josh Trank	Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel
	Eddie the Eagle	Dexter Fletcher
2019	Rocketman		Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
TBA	Silent Night	Camille Griffin	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Notes
2000	Lock, Stock...	No	No	Yes
2003	Swag	No	No	Yes
	Make My Day	No	No	Yes	Documentary

Video game

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2010	Kick-Ass: The Game	No	No	Yes

Frequent collaborators

Actors and actresses

Collaborator	Layer Cake (2004)	Stardust (2007)	Kick-Ass (2010)	X-Men: First Class (2011)	Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)	Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)	The King's Man (2020)	Total
Randall Batinkoff			Y	Y				2
Geoff Bell		Y			Y			2
Sophie Cookson					Y	Y		2
Taron Egerton					Y	Y		2
Colin Firth					Y	Y		2
Jason Flemyng	Y	Y	Y	Y				4
Dexter Fletcher	Y	Y	Y					3
Michael Gambon	Y					Y		2
Tamer Hassan	Y		Y					2
Edward Holcroft					Y	Y		2
Aaron Taylor-Johnson			Y				Y	2
Corey Johnson			Y	Y	Y			3
Sienna Miller	Y	Y						2
Mark Strong		Y	Y		Y	Y		4
Samantha Womack					Y	Y		2

Film crew

Collaborator	Layer Cake (2004)	Stardust (2007)	Kick-Ass (2010)	X-Men: First Class (2011)	Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)	Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)	The King's Man (2020)	Total
Ben Davis	Y	Y	Y				Y	4
Jane Goldman		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		5
Eddie Hamilton			Y	Y	Y	Y		4
Jon Harris	Y	Y	Y		Y		Y	5
Henry Jackman			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	5
Take That		Y		Y	Y			3

References

1. "Vaughn hits out at fame obsession".
2. "Vaughn's truth about son Matthew". Evening Standard. 25 April 2002. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
3. "Matthew Vaughn: The director's cut". The Independent. 3 October 2004. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
4. "CLAUDIA GETS A 'C' ON HER LABOR DAY".
5. "Movies – Interviews: Matthew Vaughn", bbc.co.uk; retrieved 22 June 2012.
6. Fleming, Mike (4 May 2010). "Fox Signs Vaughn To Direct 'X-Men: First Class'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
7. Child, Ben (31 January 2012). "Matthew Vaughn to direct sequel to X-Men: First Class". The Guardian. London.
8. Fleming, Mike, Jr. (27 March 2013). "Update: Fox Wins Rights To Matthew Vaughn's Next Pic 'The Secret Service', Sets November 2014 Release Date". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
9. "Matthew Vaughn Eyes Newcomer Taron Egerton for 'Secret Service' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.com. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
10. "Who Will Team Up With Colin Firth in Matthew Vaughn's 'Secret Service'?". Variety.com. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
11. "Samuel L. Jackson to Play Villain in Matthew Vaughn's 'Secret Service' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.com. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
12. "Sophie Cookson Lands Female Lead in Matthew Vaughn's 'Secret Service' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.com. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
13. Fleming, Mike. "Matthew Vaughn's 'The Secret Service' Gets A Femme Fatale In Sofia Boutella". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
14. Chitwood, Adam (13 March 2017). "Warner Bros. Eyeing Matthew Vaughn to Direct Man of Steel 2". Collider. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
15. Lyus, Jon (15 September 2017). "Matthew Vaughn Confirms Talks For The Next Superman Film". HeyUGuys. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
16. "". Vogue. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
17. Michaud, Sarah (15 January 2010). "Claudia Schiffer Expecting Third Child". People.
18. "Claudia Schiffer names new baby daughter". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
19. "Celebrity couple's love for Suffolk". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 17 March 2011.

External links

• Matthew Vaughn on IMDb
• Marv Films on IMDb
• Interview, Superherohype.com; accessed 28 February 2015