Tony Vaughn

Acting

Tony Vaughn

Born 1957-07-29 · Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

Tony Vaughn is known for Women of the Movement (2022), Stranger Things (2016) and Queen Sugar (2016)

Acting credits

21 Grams poster
7.3

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

21 Grams

2003

The Hate U Give poster
8.1

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

The Hate U Give

2018

Diary of a Mad Black Woman poster
6.5

Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen prepares to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary, her life takes an unexpected twist when she comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing her and kicks her out. Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, an old woman who doesn't take any lip from anyone. Madea helps Helen through these tough times by showing her what is really important in life. Helen is forced to rediscover love, life, and religion in her pursuit for happiness.

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

2005

Stomp the Yard poster
7.1

After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.

Stomp the Yard

2007

Footloose poster
6.6

Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel in the process.

Footloose

2011

Johnny, I Want My Liver Back poster
NR

A teenage boy's selfish actions awakens a supernatural entity seeking revenge.

Johnny, I Want My Liver Back

2021

Blood on Her Name poster
5.6

A woman's panicked decision to cover up an accidental killing spins out of control when her conscience demands she return the dead man's body to his family.

Blood on Her Name

2020

Midnight Edition poster
7.5

After interviewing a convicted killer, a reporter becomes obsessed with his mesmerizing subject. When his life is threatened, he comes to his senses, but it may be too late to save his family.

Midnight Edition

1993

Shake poster
NR

When Bryan Brown, one of Cleveland's most respected street hustlers takes the wrap on a drug deal gone bad, it forces him out of the game and out of his family's business. As his father Red struggles to rebuild their street credibility, his disappointment in Bryan lands him a one way ticket to Atlanta. Bryan is introduced to a different kind of hustle... Eventually, Bryan finds gratification in using what he's got...to get what he wants.

Shake

2011

Dirty Laundry poster
5.4

After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spirited, insulting, and inflexible, has sent a ten-year-old boy who says he's Sheldon's son up to see Sheldon. Sheldon comes home to straighten things out. Old arguments flare up - between mother and son and between brothers. Sheldon wants no part of fatherhood or family. Then, someone else from New York shows up at Evelyn's door, bringing a new set of challenges. Will this family ever stop airing its dirty laundry? And what of Sheldon: where is his pride? Can he, in the words of James Baldwin, go where his blood beats and live the life he has?

Dirty Laundry

2006

The Littlest Victims poster
8.0

A true account of the life of pioneering AIDS doctor James Oleske.

The Littlest Victims

1989

Travelin' Trains poster
NR

The story of Sam Unterman, a young man in search of his father, "The Snowman," in depression-era Georgia, and the blues music that united and separated him from his search. The truth to the railroad warning that "hobo legends ain't the same as book legends," becomes painfully clear to young Sam in his journey through the music of a generation living the blues.

Travelin' Trains

1988