Vincent D'Onofrio

Name: Vincent D'Onofrio
Date of Birth: June 30, 1959
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Biography: Vincent D'Onofrio is known as an "actor's actor". The wide variety of roles he has played and the quality of his work have earned him a reputation as a versatile talent. He studied at the Actors Studi...( read more

)o and the American Stanislavski Theatre. His debut on stage was in 1984 in the Broadway play "Open Admissions", followed by work in numerous other stage plays. As a film actor, D'Onofrio's career break came when he played a mentally unbalanced recruit in Full Metal Jacket (1987), directed by the renowned Stanley Kubrick. For this role D'Onofrio gained nearly 70 pounds. He had a major role in Dying Young (1991), and appeared prominently in the box-office smash Men in Black (1997) as the bad guy (Edgar "The Bug").

Other films of note in which he has appeared are Mystic Pizza (1988), JFK (1991), The Player (1992), Ed Wood (1994), The Cell (2000) and The Break-Up (2006). In 1996 D'Onofrio garnered critical acclaim along with co-star Renée Zellweger for The Whole Wide World (1996), which he helped produce. He also made a guest appearance in the TV series "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993) in a 1997 episode, where he played an accident victim who could not be rescued and was destined to die. For this performance he won an Emmy nomination. In 2000 he both produced and starred in Steal This Movie (2000), a biopic of radical leader Abbie Hoffman.

In 2001 D'Onofrio took the role which has likely given him his greatest public recognition: Det. Robert Goren, the lead character in the TV series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001). Goren is based on Sherlock Holmes but, instead of relying upon physical evidence like Holmes, D'Onofrio's character focuses on psychology to identify the perpetrators, whom he often draws into confessing or yielding condemning evidence.

In his career D'Onofrio's various film characters have included a priest, a bisexual former porn star, a hijacker, a serial killer, Orson Welles, a space alien, a 1960s radical leader, a pulp fiction writer, an ingenious police investigator and Stuart Smalley's dope-head brother. His on-screen love interests have included Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, Renée Zellweger, Marisa Tomei, Tracey Ullman, Rebecca De Mornay and Lili Taylor.

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Comments

mrsmac27purple

Vincent is an amaaaaaaazin Actor, very underrated in my opinion. Congratulation to him and his family on the arrival of his new son xxxxxxx

posted 126 days ago
nevanrae

I think Vincent is an amazing actor, the role he performs on L&O C.I. is incrediable. He sure makes his presence known in every scene. Thank you for your work , if you do get to see this.

posted 159 days ago
sherley399

u are so beaultiful to me...
nah jokes man relax, i'm listening to that song rite now, u rock, i hope australia shows the newest seasons of law and order cos i really wanna watch it. if they dont, i'm counting on u to do something about it!!!

posted 186 days ago
thalie13

he's amazing in The Cell!!!

posted 201 days ago
screwedover2much2005

Vincent D'Onofrio is My Hero! I love you Vincent!!!!!!!!!

posted 264 days ago
Cimeri1

Vincent is the best actor in the world

posted 297 days ago
samanthababb123

vince is sooooo cute.

posted 357 days ago
gurlygurl11652005

plus he was born in brooklyn so was i

posted 366 days ago
gurlygurl11652005

i agree he is hot when i watch criminal intenti squeal he is soo idk how to say it but hes wow basically

omg my friend saw him on 4th ave like 2 or 3 months ago and she told me and i was like and you did not go over to him!!

posted 366 days ago
ghostwhowalks420

he was also in The Thirteenth Floor. its not in his filmography. i liked him in that one!!
=D

posted 379 days ago