Matthew vaughn is a well-known British-born film producer and director, famous for having married the beautiful Claudia schiffer.
Matthew vaughn was born on March 7, 1971 in the city of London, capital of England.
When he was conceived, his mother, the actress Kathy ceaton, was on the verge of ending his relationship with Robert vaughn, alleged father of Matthew. Robert she refused to recognize him as her son and the dispute was settled by the Los Angeles Supreme Court.
Sadly by then Matthew He was already 10 years old and remembered little of his early childhood in London. It turned out that his real father was a British aristocrat named George Albert Harley Drummond, godson of the king George VI.
For a time it was thought that Matthew could become heir to the Countess of Oxford, but finally the illegality of the conception ended up distancing it from a title of nobility.
Oblivious to all these aspects of social life, Matthew grew up interned in the Stowe School, located in Buckinham, England. When he was old enough to enter college, he took a year off to travel the length and breadth of the world on a tour of the Hard Rock Cafe.
At the end of his study in Los Angeles, he took a job as an assistant director and shortly after returned to London to study anthropology and history at University College London.
After a few weeks of thinking about it briefly, he realized that the cinema had already captured his full attention. In this way, he raised some money and returned to Los Angeles to start his career in show business.
Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for him to discover that the film industry was very competitive. Displaced, he flew back to London with the firm conviction of making a name for himself in his native land.
In 1995 he participated as a producer in the little-known trhiller “The Innocent Sleep”(The Innocent Dream), where he met Guy ritchie, writer, director and current husband of the pop diva, Madonna.
Ritchie invited him to help him in the production of “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”(Lock & Stock), a police film that was very successful. With only 800 thousand pounds of budget and a brief appearance of Sting, the two friends made nine million each.
Immediately after this, the duo became world famous, acquiring the possibility of shooting “Snatch”(Snatch, pigs and diamonds). In the same they acted Brad Pitt, Benicio, the bull Y Dennis Farina, constituting a new blockbuster.
Later, in 2001, Vaughn returned to work with Ritchie Produced by “Mean machine”(Play hard), which was followed by the romantic comedy“Swept away”(Swept away by the tide).
With Madonna As the lead and a budget of $ 10 million, the film failed terribly at the box office. The commercial loss meant the estrangement of the old partners but a new opportunity to Matthew.
On May 25, 2002, he married Claudia schiffer, to whom he had given a turtle instead of an engagement ring. Her ceremony was held at the actress’s mansion and more than 200 guests attended the party.
January 30, 2003 Matthew became the father of Caspar matthew and this was followed on November 11, 2004 by his little sister Clementine. Currently the family resides in London, in the mansion of Schiffer.
His launch as a director had occurred that same year, with “Layer Cake” (Organized crime). It featured a performance by the famous Daniel Craig and the attractive actress and model Sienna miller.
After having received very good reviews, he began to develop his adaptation of the novel “Stardust”. Released in 2007, it featured the narration of his compatriot Sir Ian McKellen and the performance of Claire danes, Michelle pfeiffer Y Robert De Niro As the Captain shakespeare.
So far, the feature film has accumulated more than $ 134 million in sales, supporting strong rumors that Matthew will be chosen by Marvel comics to shoot the film “Thor”.