Vincent D'Onofrio's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Law & Order: Criminal Intent Detective R… Men in Black: The Series Bugs

Main Movie Roles 2009 - Brooklyn's Finest 2009 - The New Tenants 2009 - Staten Island 2008 - Cadillac Records 2006 - The Break-Up 2005 - Thumbsucker 2003 - Overnight 2002 - The Salton Sea 2002 - The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys 2000 - Happy Accidents 2000 - Steal This Movie 2000 - The Cell 1999 - The Thirteenth Floor 1998 - Claire Dolan 1998 - The Newton Boys 1997 - Men in Black 1996 - Feeling Minnesota 1996 - The Whole Wide World 1995 - Strange Days 1995 - Stuart Saves His Family 1994 - Ed Wood 1993 - Mr. Wonderful 1992 - Malcolm X 1992 - The Player 1991 - Dying Young 1991 - JFK 1988 - Mystic Pizza 1987 - Full Metal Jacket 1987 - Adventures in Babysitting

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 Studio 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 (I), Cameron Diaz, Renée Zellweger, Marisa Tomei, Tracey Ullman, Rebecca De Mornay and Lili Taylor (I).


TRIVIA:

• Ironically, he played Moriarty in a TV movie titled "Sherlock" while he starred as Robert Goren in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, whose character is based on Sherlock Holmes.
• Unhappy with his impression of 'Orson Welles' (qv), director 'Tim Burton (I)' (qv) had D'Onofrio's voice dubbed, in the film _Ed Wood (1994)_ (qv). The near perfect 'Orson Welles' (qv) impression was supplied by voice-over artist 'Maurice LaMarche' (qv).
• One of the founders of the River Run Film Festival (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), along with his sister, 'Elizabeth D'Onofrio' (qv), and their father, 'Gene D'Onofrio' (qv).
• "I want you to be big -- 'Lon Chaney' (qv) big," 'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) informed D'Onofrio during the filming of _Full Metal Jacket (1987)_ (qv).
• Is left-handed.
• Has played 'Orson Welles' (qv) in two different, unrelated productions: _Ed Wood (1994)_ (qv) and _Five Minutes, Mr. Welles (2005)_ (qv).
• Vincent's sister, actress 'Elizabeth D'Onofrio' (qv), teaches acting in Asheville, North Carolina.
• Daughter: Leila George D'Onofrio, born March 20, 1992. Her mother is actress 'Greta Scacchi' (qv).