Vincent D'Onofrio
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
- 1983: The First Turn-On !!
- 1984: It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
- 1986–1987: Der Equalizer ( The Equalizer , TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1987: Miami Vice (TV series)
- 1987: Full Metal Jacket
- 1987: The Night of Adventure (Adventures in Babysitting)
- 1988: Pizza Pizza - A Slice of Heaven (Mystic Pizza)
- 1989: Signs of Life
- 1989: The Jugger - Fight of the best (The Blood of Heroes)
- 1991: Between Love and Hate (Crooked Hearts)
- 1991: Decision out of love (Dying Young)
- 1991: Fires Within - Between Love and Passion (Fires Within)
- 1991: Naked Tango (Naked Tango)
- 1991: JFK - crime scene Dallas (JFK)
- 1992: The Player
- 1992: Salt on Our Skin (Salt on Our Skin)
- 1992: Malcolm X
- 1993: who stole my family? (Being Human)
- 1993: A Normal Miracle (Household Saints)
- 1993: Mr. Wonderful
- 1994: Ed Wood
- 1994: Our world was a beautiful lie (Imaginary Crimes)
- 1994: Nunzio's Second Cousin (short film)
- 1994: The Investigator (TV short film)
- 1995: Hotel Paradise (short film)
- 1995: Stuart Stupid - A Family Sucks (Stuart Saves His Family)
- 1995: Strange Days
- 1996: All the love in the world / love put to the test (The Whole Wide World)
- 1996: Hot Nights in Las Vegas (The Winner)
- 1996: Minnesota (Feeling Minnesota)
- 1996: Good Luck - Good luck then! (Good luck)
- 1997: Boys Life 2
- 1997: Men in Black
- 1997: Homicide ( Homicide: Life on the Street , TV series)
- 1997: Death in front of the camera (Guy)
- 1998: Pelham Bay Park (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three)
- 1998: The Newton Boys (The Newton Boys)
- 1998: Claire Dolan
- 1998: Shrill Nights in New York (The Velocity of Gary)
- 1999: Spanish Judges - Bloody Business (Spanish Judges)
- 1999: The 13th Floor - Are you what you think? (The Thirteenth Floor)
- 1999: Lost Winners ( That Championship Season , TV movie)
- 2000: Happy Accidents
- 2000: Steal This Movie
- 2000: The Cell
- 2001: Chelsea Walls
- 2001-2011: Criminal Intent - Crime in the sights ( Law & Order: Criminal Intent , TV series, 191 episodes)
- 2001: Impostor
- 2002: Bark!
- 2002: Lost Heaven (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys)
- 2002: The Red Sneakers (TV movie)
- 2002: The Salton Sea
- 2002: Sherlock - Case of Evil (TV movie)
- 2005: Thumbsucker
- 2005: Five Minutes, Mr. Welles (short film)
- 2006: Separation with Obstacles (The Break-Up)
- 2008: The Narrows
- 2008: Cadillac Records
- 2009: Staten Island
- 2009: The New Tenants
- 2010: Law of the Street - Brooklyn's Finest (Brooklyn's Finest)
- 2011: Bulletproof Gangster (Kill the Irishman)
- 2012: Chained
- 2012: Sinister
- 2012: Fire with Fire - Revenge follows its own rules (Fire with Fire)
- 2013: Ass Backwards - We are the most beautiful (Ass Backwards)
- 2013: Gangster Chronicles (Pawn Shop Chronicles)
- 2013: Escape Plan
- 2013: Long Live Charlie Countryman (The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman)
- 2014: The Judge - Right or Honor (The Judge)
- 2014: Mall: Wrong Time, Wrong Place (Mall)
- 2015: Run All Night
- 2015-2018: Marvel's Daredevil (TV series)
- 2015: Jurassic World
- 2015: Broken Horses
- 2016: Pelé: Birth of a Legend
- 2016: Stormy Harvest - In Dubious Battle (In Dubious Battle)
- 2016: The Magnificent Seven (The Magnificent Seven)
- 2017: Rings
- 2017: Emerald City - The Dark World of Oz ( Emerald City , TV series, 10 episodes)
- 2017: CHiPs
- 2017: El Camino Christmas
- 2017-2018: Ghost Wars (TV series, 8 episodes)
- 2018: Death Wish
- 2019: The Kid (The Kid)
As a director and screenwriter
- 2019: The Kid (The Kid)
Web links
- Vincent D'Onofrio in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Vincent D'Onofrio in the catalog of the German National Library
- Vincent D'Onofrio in the nndb (English)
personal data | |
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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 |