Vincent D'Onofrio

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Vincent D'Onofrio at the Toronto International Film Festival (2014)

Vincent Philip D'Onofrio (born June 30, 1959 in Bensonhurst , Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American actor , film director and screenwriter .

Life

D'Onofrio grew up in Hawaii , Colorado and Miami . He also played theater for the first time in Florida under his father's direction. In the early 1970s he moved back to New York, where he first made his debut on Broadway in a theater evening with two plays under the title Open Admissions and then joined the American Stanislavsky Theater . There he worked in productions of the plays Von Mäusen und Menschen , The Petrified Forest , The Indian Wants The Bronx and Sexual Perversions in Chicago .

In 1987 he starred in the Miami Vice episode In the Last Second , in which he and gang boss Calderone target the life of Rico Tubbs ( Philip Michael Thomas ). He gained popularity through his portrayal of the soldier "Private Pyle" (in the German version "Private Paula") in Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket . For this role he put on over 30 kilograms in weight, surpassing Robert De Niro with 27.3 kilograms for Like a Wild Bull . For The Salton Sea (2002), D'Onofrio repeated this with an increase of 20 kilograms.

D'Onofrio played the filmmaker Orson Welles twice : in the short film Five Minutes, Mr. Welles from 2005 and 1994 in Ed Wood . In addition to numerous other film roles (including Men in Black and The Cell ), in which he often played psychopathic or malicious characters, D'Onofrio also appeared in the role of a fisherman in the film Salt on Our Skin . From 2001 to 2010, D'Onofrio was part of the regular cast of the US crime series Criminal Intent in the role of the idiosyncratic detective Robert Goren . In 2011 he returned to his old role for the last season of the series. In 2015 he starred in Jurassic World and also played the role of Wilson Fisk / Kingpin on the Netflix series Marvel's Daredevil .

D'Onofrio also works as a director. In 2010, his feature film debut was released with the horror musical Don't Go in the Woods . In 2019 the western The Kid followed .

D'Onofrio has two older sisters. From 1991 to 1993 he was married to the actress Greta Scacchi , with whom he has a daughter Leila George (* 1992). He has been married a second time since 1997. The couple temporarily separated in 2003, but have been back together since 2005; they have two sons.

Filmography

As an actor

As a director and screenwriter

  • 2019: The Kid (The Kid)

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Commons : Vincent D'Onofrio  - Collection of Images
personal data
SURNAME D'Onofrio, Vincent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES D'Onofrio, Vincent Philip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City, New York, United States