Vincent D'Onofrio
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
An actor whose hulking presence belies his ability to slip quietly into an astonishing variety of roles, Vincent D'Onofrio is one of Hollywood's most unpredictable and compelling performers. Throughout his career, D'Onofrio has played a diverse range of characters, from Full Metal Jacket's fatally unhinged army recruit to a wholly convincing Orson Welles in Ed Wood to a bisexual porn star in The Velocity of Gary.Born in Brooklyn, NY, on June 30, 1959, D'Onofrio was raised in the diverse locales of Hawaii, Colorado, and Miami's Hialeah section. His career as an actor began on the stage, with study under Sonia Moore of New York's American Stanislavsky Theatre and Sharon Chatten at the Actors Studio. D'Onofrio's early years in the theater were filled with an obligatory helping of obscurity and miniscule paychecks (so miniscule that he worked for a time as a bouncer to help pay the bills). His fortunes began to shift in 1984, when he joined the American Stanislavsky Theatre as a performer. There, he appeared in such well-regarded productions as Of Mice and Men and David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and also made his Broadway debut in Open Admissions.D'Onofrio debuted onscreen in the straight-to-oblivion 1983 comedy The First Turn-On!, but it was not until his haunting portrayal of Pvt. Pyle (a role for which the actor gained 70 pounds) four years later in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket that he earned much-deserved notice for his work. Defying easy categorization, D'Onofrio next appeared in the romantic comedy Mystic Pizza (1988), slimming down to his normal weight and giving a convincing portrayal as Lili Taylor's lovestruck boyfriend.Having thus given audiences a glimpse of his remarkable versatility, D'Onofrio spent the next few years making his presence felt in such films as JFK (1991), in which he played assassination witness Bill Newman; The Player (1992), which cast him in the pivotal role of ill-fated screenwriter David Kahane; and Nancy Savoca's Household Saints (1993), which, through a particularly odd feat of casting, had him playing the father of Lili Taylor. Although D'Onofrio worked at a prolific pace, it was not until he portrayed Conan the Barbarian author Robert E. Howard in the 1996 The Whole Wide World that he really had his screen breakthrough. A low-key romantic drama about the relationship between Howard and a schoolteacher (Renée Zellweger), the film allowed D'Onofrio to take center stage, rather than lend support to better-known co-stars. Critics roundly applauded his performance, but although the actor kept working steadily, he was by no means a Hollywood fixture. Eschewing the limelight, he turned in particularly memorable performances in Feeling Minnesota (1996) as Cameron Diaz's cuckolded fiancé and in the 1997 blockbuster Men in Black, which cast him as the film's resident bad guy.D'Onofrio had long since become an established actor by the 2000's, and he would remain a solid force on screen in such films as The Cell, Happy Accidents, Steal This Movie, andThumbsucker. D'Onofrio would also find just as much notoriety on the small screen, most notably as Detective Robert Goren on the phenomenally successful Law & Order spin-off Criminal Intent, and even step behind the camera, penning, helming and starring in the drama Mall.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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82% | Kubrick by Kubrick (Kubrick par Kubrick) |
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— | 2020 |
44% | The Kid |
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— | 2019 |
20% | A Fall From Grace |
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— | 2019 |
18% | Death Wish |
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$13.1M | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Escape Plan 2 (Double Feature with Escape Plan) |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Death wish en español |
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— | 2018 |
18% | CHIPS |
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$18.6M | 2017 |
30% | In Dubious Battle |
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— | 2017 |
8% | Rings |
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$27.8M | 2017 |
40% | El Camino Christmas |
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— | 2017 |
64% | The Magnificent Seven |
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$93.4M | 2016 |
88% | Phantom Boy |
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$31.5k | 2016 |
33% | Pelé: Birth of a Legend |
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$40.6k | 2016 |
70% | Jurassic World |
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$528.8M | 2015 |
25% | Broken Horses |
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— | 2015 |
59% | Run All Night |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | El Aro 3 |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Mall |
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— | 2014 |
49% | The Judge |
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$35.7M | 2014 |
8% | Chlorine |
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— | 2014 |
27% | Charlie Countryman |
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— | 2013 |
27% | Ass Backwards |
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— | 2013 |
50% | Escape Plan |
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$18.7M | 2013 |
18% | Hustlers |
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$5.4k | 2013 |
7% | Fire With Fire |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Heroes Behind The Badge |
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— | 2012 |
63% | Sinister |
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$48.1M | 2012 |
13% | Don't Go in the Woods |
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— | 2012 |
68% | Chained |
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— | 2012 |
62% | Kill the Irishman |
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$1.2M | 2011 |
44% | Brooklyn's Finest |
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$26.8M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | The New Tenants |
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— | 2009 |
25% | Staten Island (Little New York) |
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— | 2009 |
25% | The Narrows |
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— | 2008 |
34% | The Break-Up |
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$118.7M | 2006 |
71% | Thumbsucker |
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$1.2M | 2005 |
78% | Overnight |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Case of Evil |
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— | 2002 |
77% | The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys |
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$1.6M | 2002 |
63% | The Salton Sea |
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$0.7M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | The Red Sneakers |
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— | 2002 |
14% | Bark! |
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— | 2002 |
24% | Impostor |
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$5.3M | 2002 |
26% | Chelsea Walls |
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— | 2001 |
70% | Happy Accidents |
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— | 2001 |
45% | The Cell |
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— | 2000 |
51% | Steal This Movie |
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— | 2000 |
10% | Supernova |
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— | 2000 |
22% | The Velocity of Gary |
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— | 1999 |
30% | The Thirteenth Floor |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Spanish Judges |
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— | 1999 |
25% | Claire Dolan |
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— | 1998 |
64% | The Newton Boys |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (TV) |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Guy |
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— | 1997 |
17% | The Winner |
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— | 1997 |
92% | Men in Black |
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— | 1997 |
80% | Boys Life 2 |
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— | 1997 |
53% | The Lost World - Jurassic Park |
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— | 1997 |
76% | The Whole Wide World |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Good Luck |
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— | 1996 |
14% | Feeling Minnesota |
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— | 1996 |
63% | Strange Days |
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— | 1995 |
30% | Stuart Saves His Family |
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— | 1995 |
60% | Imaginary Crimes |
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— | 1994 |
92% | Ed Wood |
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— | 1994 |
54% | Being Human |
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— | 1994 |
52% | Mr. Wonderful |
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— | 1993 |
50% | Household Saints |
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— | 1993 |
89% | Malcolm X |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Salt on Our Skin |
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— | 1992 |
84% | JFK |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Naked Tango |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Fires Within |
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— | 1991 |
23% | Dying Young |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Crooked Hearts |
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— | 1991 |
13% | The Blood of Heroes |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Signs Of Life |
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— | 1989 |
75% | Mystic Pizza |
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— | 1988 |
72% | Adventures in Babysitting |
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— | 1987 |
92% | Full Metal Jacket |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | The First Turn-On! |
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— | 1984 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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92% |
Godfather of Harlem
2019
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57% |
Interrogation
2020
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61% |
Ratched
2019-2020
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92% |
Marvel's Daredevil
2015-2018
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-2011
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No Score Yet |
Ghost Wars
2017-2018
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38% |
Emerald City
2017
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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98% |
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
2014
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91% |
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993-1999
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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No Score Yet |
The Equalizer
1985-1989
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Quotes from Vincent D'Onofrio's Characters
Vic Hoskins: | Extinct animals have no rights. |
Owen Grady: | They're not extinct anymore, Hoskins. |
Vic Hoskins: | Drones cant search tunnels and caves. And they're hackable.The minute a real war breaks out all that fancy tech is gonna go dark! |
Owen Grady: | Yeah, but that tech's not gonna eat them if they forget to feed it. |
Glen Palmer: | Don't pat me, Don't pat me! I'm the big brother. You don't pat me! |
Edgar: | "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers." |
Cook: | Alien: "Your proposal is acceptable." |
Sam Deed: | It's like my whole life has been a journey to make it into your arms. |
Orson Welles: | Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life makeing someone else's dreams? |
Edgar: | YOU IDIOTS! You don't get it! I've won! It's over! You're milk-suckers! You don't matter. In fact, in a few seconds you won't even be matter. |
Professor Jonas: | The symbol is associated with a Pagan deity named Bagul. He consumes the souls of human children. The ancient church believed that Bagul actually lived in the images themselves and that they were gateways into his realm. Children exposed to these images were especially vulnerable to Bagul's abductions. |
Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis: | Are those live rounds? |
Leonard Lawrence Pvt. Gomer Pyle: | Seven-six-two millimeter, full metal jacket |
Leonard Lawrence Pvt. Gomer Pyle: | Seven-six-two millimeter, full metal jacket. |
Edgar: | Hey! This is my truck! |
Tow Truck Driver: | Yeah. And make sure you tell them that down at the impound. |
Edgar: | Agh! [reaches for his double barrel shotgun and cocks it] |
Tow Truck Driver: | [whips out his revolver from his shirt] Please........ |
Orson Welles: | Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams? |
Leonard Lawrence Pvt. Gomer Pyle: | I am in a world of shit |
Leonard Lawrence Pvt. Gomer Pyle: | I am in a world of shit. |