Mr Vance was born into a far humbler environment in the steel town of Middletown, Ohio, raised in an unstable home by a drug-addicted mother, he leveraged his academic talent into a lucrative career as a lawyer and venture capitalist.

"Hillbilly Elegy" later turned into a Netflix feature film of the same name. The movie inspired by Vance's book released to Netflix in 2020. Directed by Ron Howard, it stars Amy Adams and Glenn Close. Vance's character is played by Gabriel Basso. Owen Asztalos also plays the younger version of him.

Actress Glenn Close told the co-hosts of "The View" on Wednesday that Vice President-elect JD Vance's family was "generous" when they visited the set of "Hillbilly Elegy."

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Before he was “The Night Agent,” Gabriel Basso portrayed now vice president JD Vance in the film based on Vance's book, “Hillbilly Elegy.”

For at least part of his upbringing, JD Vance’s parents — Donald Bowman and Beverly Aikins — played formative roles, too. The vice president vividly captured the impact his parents had on him both in his memoir and on the campaign trail.

I doubt that many progressives in the United States have read J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Being based in the Philippines, a country located on the outer

Ohio native JD Vance took the vice presidential oath of office Monday, becoming the nation's 50th vice president.

Beverly Aikins said how proud she is of her son, JD Vance, the night before his and Donald Trump's inauguration.

Jerry Dobbins remembers a young Vance growing up in Middletown, Ohio, decades before he would be sworn in as vice president. Dobbins lived two doors down from Vance's grandmother − affectionately known as "Mamaw" − and he called her a "tough bird" who pushed her grandson to do well and stay out of trouble.

The conservative from Ohio shot to fame writing about his hard upbringing and morphed from a harsh critic of Donald Trump into a Maga champion.

As he prepares to become the nation’s first millennial vice president, JD Vance is already the presumptive heir to the “Make America Great Again” movement. Vance hasn’t been assigned a specific portfolio in the White House like some of his predecessors.