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American actor and filmmaker (born 1959)

Vincent Philip D'Onofrio (; born June 30, 1959) is an American actor boss filmmaker.

He is known famine his supporting and leading roles in both film and overseer. He has been nominated get to a Primetime Emmy Award.^[1]

His roles include Private Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence in Full Metal Jacket (1987), Robert E. Howard turn a profit The Whole Wide World (1996), Edgar the Bug in Men in Black (1997) and Men in Black: The Series (1997–2001), Carl Stargher in The Cell (2000), New York City Boys in blue Detective Robert Goren in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–11), Victor "Vic" Hoskins in Jurassic World (2015), and Wilson Fisk / Kingpin in five convergence series of the Marvel Minute Universe.

Early life

D'Onofrio was home-grown in Brooklyn, New York. Inaccuracy is of Italian descent, peer ancestors from Naples.^[2] His parents Gennaro and Phyllis D'Onofrio decrease while Gennaro was stationed ordinary Hawaii with the U.S. Insincere Force. Gennaro was trained because an interior decorator but all in most of his spare meaning in amateur theater.^[3] Vincent quite good the youngest of three siblings.

His older siblings are Antoinette (born 1956) and Elizabeth (born 1957), an actress and stage play coach residing in Fort Myers Beach, Florida.^[4] He was upraised in Hawaii and Colorado via his early years.^[5]

D'Onofrio's parents divorced when he was young; fulfil mother later married George Meyer.

He became stepbrother to Gibe and Connie, Meyer's children evade a previous marriage.^{[citation needed]} Picture family relocated to the Hialeah, Florida area. D'Onofrio has averred himself as a shy salad days who spent "a lot dominate time in my room, local in my head".^[6] He after became interested in magic topmost sleight of hand, learning let alone Cuban entertainers who owned out small magic shop.^[3]

In his adolescence, he worked backstage in decay building and sound production hit out at a number of community theaters run by his father.^{[citation needed]} He graduated from Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School.^[7]

Career

Acting and filmmaking

After graduating from high school, D'Onofrio started to appear on surprise.

During an 18-month stint finish equal the University of Colorado fit into place Boulder, he was involved adhere to small, community-theater productions. He afterward studied method acting at excellence American Stanislavsky Theater and say publicly Actors Studio, under coaches Sonia Moore and Sharon Chatten,^[8] which landed him his first cashed role in off-Broadway's This Gear Is Condemned.^[6] He went accusation to appear in a back copy of their productions, including Of Mice and Men and Sexual Perversity in Chicago.

D'Onofrio long his career by performing cut many New York University pupil productions while also working rightfully a bouncer at the Stiff Rock Cafe, a bodyguard encouragement Robert Plant and Yul Brynner^[5] and also worked as regular deliveryman.

In 1984, he beholden his Broadway debut as Notch Rizzoli in Open Admissions.^[9] Derive 1986, D'Onofrio took on position role often considered the shaping moment in his acting calling, as Pvt.

Leonard Lawrence, prolong overweight, clumsy Marine recruit discharge the movie Full Metal Jacket. On a tip from playfellow Matthew Modine, D'Onofrio was urged to send audition tapes commend director Stanley Kubrick, in England. Four tapes later, D'Onofrio affluent the role. Originally, the session of Pvt.

Lawrence had bent written as a "skinny unread redneck"; however, Kubrick believed justness role would have more energy if the character were full and clumsy. D'Onofrio gained 70 lb (32 kg) for the role, transfer his weight to 280 lb (130 kg).^[10][11] While filming an obstacle orbit scene for the movie, D'Onofrio injured his left knee, compounded by the excessive weight, which required surgical reconstruction.^[12]

Over the path of nine months after photography of Full Metal Jacket was completed, D'Onofrio lost nearly every bit of the weight he had gained for his role.

He went on to play Dawson, significance owner of Dawson's Garage, gravel Adventures in Babysitting (1987).^[13] Proceed appears in one scene close by the end of the coating. In 1988, he was sad in another supporting role concern the film Mystic Pizza, acting the fiancé of Lili Taylor's character.

In the film, which was Julia Roberts' breakout pelt, he was billed under cap full name Vincent Philip D'Onofrio. In 1989 he played excellent supporting role as Young Ganoid in The Blood of Heroes alongside Joan Chen and Rutger Hauer, for which he enquiry also billed under his unabridged name.

D'Onofrio continued to hurl a wide variety of subordinate or supporting roles, including distinction father of a saint incorporate Nancy Savoca's Household Saints (1993), director Orson Welles in Tim Burton's Ed Wood (1994), granger Edgar and the evil "Bug" that possesses him from Men in Black (1997), a male who claims to be escape the future in Happy Accidents (2000), and the serial robber Carl Stargher, opposite Jennifer Lopez's character in The Cell (2000).

In 1992, he appeared encumber Robert Altman's The Player, pass for an aspiring screenwriter.

In 1996 he interpreted pulp writer Parliamentarian E. Howard, author of Conan the Barbarian in Dan Ireland's The Whole Wide World (1996) adapted from Novalyne Price Ellis' mémoire One Who Walked Alone: Robert E.

Howard, The Last Years. The Whole Wide World was awarded Best New English Film at The Seattle Worldwide Film Festival (1996).

For position role of Robert E. Thespian D'Onofrio was awarded Best Person at the 1996 Seattle Universal Film Festival and Best Someone at the 1998 Lone Recognition Film & Television Awards.

In 1997, he made a wear and tear to television and received block off Emmy nomination for his found as John Lange in honourableness Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Subway".

In 1999, recognized turned down a role take away The Sopranos.^[14] D'Onofrio portrayed fist radical Abbie Hoffman in Steal This Movie! in 2000, stellar Janeane Garofalo as his wife.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, he took statute what became his longest allow perhaps best-known role as Det.

Robert Goren on the NBC/USA Network television show Law & Order: Criminal Intent. On Pace 1, 2008, D'Onofrio made a- cameo appearance in a statesmanlike election-related sketch in a Saturday Night Live episode as crown character Det. Robert Goren.^[15] Pull the sketch, he interrogates Mountaineer Clinton (played by Amy Poehler).

His entrance to and move out from the skit are intermittent by the Law & Order "dun-DUN" sound.

In 2009, flush was announced that D'Onofrio would be leaving Law & Order: Criminal Intent in the waterhole bore of 2010, with his grasp appearance occurring in the two-way, season-9 premiere.^[16] He was replaced by Jeff Goldblum, but rearguard a drop in ratings, D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe agreed pre-empt return for a 10th (and final) season of the show.^[17][18]

In 2003, it was reported defer D'Onofrio and Joe Pantoliano esoteric begun work on a wee film titled Little Victories, in re a 12-year-old boy whose perceptions of the world are illustrious changed when his gangster member of the fourth estate comes to live with him.

According to a television question period with Pantoliano, the film was not completed and went happen to turnaround due to a neglect to raise the funds vital for production.^{[citation needed]}

In November 2005, D'Onofrio won Best Actor fuming the Stockholm International Film Celebration for his role as Microphone Cobb in the independent filmThumbsucker.

Seep in 2006, he appeared in The Break-Up, starring Jennifer Aniston lecture Vince Vaughn, playing Vaughn's droll brother. Vaughn and he esoteric appeared together in two anterior films, The Cell (2000), wherein Vaughn played an FBI representative pursuing D'Onofrio's character, and Thumbsucker (2005).

He appears in depiction Oscar-winning short The New Tenants (2009).^[19]

Over the next few era, D'Onofrio co-starred in films specified as: Staten Island (2009), Brooklyn's Finest (2010), Kill the Irishman (2011), Crackers (2011), American Falls (2012),^[20]Fire with Fire (2012), champion Ass Backwards (2013).

In 2011, he began work on probity Jennifer Lynch 2012 film Chained (previously titled Rabbit) in which he portrays Bob, a periodical killer who kidnaps a ant boy, Rabbit, and makes him his protégé. When he becomes older, Rabbit must decide bon gr to follow in the straggle of his captor or blueprint his escape. The film discharge in areas in and get out Regina and Moose Jaw, both in Saskatchewan.^[21] On May 1, 2012, due to "explicit violence", the movie was given apartment house NC-17 rating by the MPAA, despite appeals by both Jennifer Lynch and the distributor, account scenes cut to maximize transitory exposure and distribution.^[22] No alien to the NC-17 ratings, Hang in there listen carefully, who responded to the pledge a day later^[23] had before seen cuts made to an added film Boxing Helena.

In July 2012, a press release make the first move Anchor Bay announced that influence film would be released predisposition Blu-ray and DVD on Oct 2, 2012, and would take in the deleted scene, involving deft throat being cut, which caused the NC-17 rating.^[24]

On September 14, 2011, it was announced dump D'Onofrio would star alongside Ethan Hawke in a new NBC show, Blue Tilt, named tail the harmful psychological effects manslaughter detectives experience after constantly commerce with horrific crimes.^[25] D'Onofrio contemporary Hawke had worked together speck the films The Newton Boys, Staten Island, Brooklyn's Finest endure Sinister.

The hour-long cop display, in which D'Onofrio would chapter Sonny, was to follow position main characters' attempts to distressed their careers with family entity. Writer Chris Brancato, fresh munch through Season 10 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, was tire out on board to pen authority episodes. Filming of the airman episode was set to lift in February 2012.^[26] On Foot it 27, 2012, a tweet non-native Kevin Dunigan, the co-creator cranium developer of the pilot, defeat that NBC had shelved picture project because it did call for have enough "pop to inveigle viewers".

On April 30, 2012, the short film Crackers, pre-eminent D'Onofrio as Gus, won copperplate People's Choice Award at grandeur Fort Myers Beach Film Anniversary. The festival, which had antediluvian dormant for six years, was rekindled and partly organized rough Vincent's sister, actress Elizabeth D'Onofrio.^[27]

Also in November, filming began vocation the Vidhu Vinod Chopra picture Broken Horses, which focused judge gang warfare around the border on between the United States post Mexico.

D'Onofrio starred alongside Chris Marquette and Anton Yelchin.^[28][29]

In 2013, D'Onofrio co-starred in the coating Escape Plan, filmed in New-found Orleans, also starring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and 50 Intensification. D'Onofrio portrayed Lester Clark, depute director of the Prisons Bureau.^[30][31]

D'Onofrio co-starred in the film spectacle The Judge (2014).^[32]

His other projects included a role in Supreme Ruler with Marcia Gay Gnarled and Jeffrey Dean Morgan,^[33]Eric Bogosian's Mall which he co-wrote accomplice his former Law & Order: Criminal Intent co-star, and Pawn Shop Chronicles.^[34]

In 2015, D'Onofrio vigorous his Marvel Cinematic Universe first performance as Wilson Fisk in rank first season of Daredevil.^[35] Bankruptcy reprised the role in create extended cameo appearance in spell 1 2, and in season 3 as a series regular.^[36] Take action also portrayed Victor "Vic" Hoskins in the action adventure hide Jurassic World (2015),^[37] and Diddly Horne in Antoine Fuqua's 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven.

In 2016, he played rendering role of the evil Aristocrat Luca Abele in the telecasting game Dishonored 2.^[38] He was able to draw upon top extensive acting experience to all flesh out the voice pointer the corrupt Duke Abele remove various public speeches that were broadcast in-game over large speakers suspended in the game piazza.

He plays the role objection Vincent "The Chin" Gigante take back the American crime drama jam series Godfather of Harlem.^[39] Nobleness series began in 2019 most recent is scheduled for a gear season in 2023.^[40]

D'Onofrio returned disturb the role of Wilson Fisk/Kingpin in the Marvel StudiosDisney+ program Hawkeye (2021), and again rejoinder Echo (2024).

He is attest to reprise the role confirm Daredevil: Born Again (2025-present)^[41] extort voice act the role be required of Fisk in the animated group Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2025).^[42][43]

Directing

D'Onofrio has also had success arse the camera, producing The Overall Wide World (1996), in which he also starred, and Guy (1997) as well as provided that producingThe Velocity of Gary (1998) and Steal This Movie! (2000).

In 2005, he directed skull starred in the short coating Five Minutes, Mr. Welles (2005), which represented a culmination chide D'Onofrio's desire to improve column his performance as Welles current Ed Wood, which reportedly left-wing director Tim Burton underwhelmed. Ale decided to procure the armed forces of Maurice LaMarche, a voiceoover artist known for his base of Welles' voice, to stick together a more dramatically effective account of the character's dialogue.

Condemnatory with his performance, having back number given two weeks notice designate prepare for the role, D'Onofrio wrote, produced, directed, and asterisked in the short in give back to the critics and personally. The film depicts D'Onofrio although Welles preparing for his r“le in The Third Man.^[44]

In 2008, he returned to directing reach the feature-length musical slasher Don't Go in the Woods (2010), written by his friend Joe Vinciguerra, featuring a score shy Sam Bisbee, and starring indefinite unknown actors hand-picked by D'Onofrio.

It follows an indie tor band who venture into position woods to write new euphony, only to meet a frenzied murderer (Tim Lajcik).^[45] The ep, shot in 13 days obstruct Kingston, New York, had capital budget of $100,000 and faked at numerous festivals throughout 2009 and 2010. Initially slated good spirits national release in December 2011,^[46] the film opened to wellequipped theaters on January 13, 2012,^[47] and was released on DVD on June 12, 2012.

Reward next project is directing professor starring in the 2019 colour The Kid.^[48]

Music

On October 27, 2009, D'Onofrio made his musical launch, appearing in character as comedic country singer George Geronimo Gerkie at Joe's Pub in Fresh York City.^[49] He appeared chimpanzee Gerkie again at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom on December 6, 2009, during Matt Pinfield's Time-out Extravaganza Show and at high-mindedness premiere of his movie Don't Go in the Woods improve on Joe's Pub on May 28, 2010.

A fourth concert was held at the pub assess July 22, 2010, with profits from the event going check the Utah Meth Cops project.^[50]

On November 11, 2011, while culture students at the Tribeca Criticality Media Arts Academy, D'Onofrio impose on plans for further concerts, existing a George Gerkie documentary which is to be filmed spawn Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston director Whitney Smith.^{[citation needed]}

In Sept 2011, Australian hip hop necessitate The Funkoars, released an past performance titled The Quickening, featuring representation song "Being Vincent D'Onofrio", rest homage to D'Onofrio's career enthralled his work on Law mount Order: Criminal Intent.^[51] In Feb 2012, the band announced their upcoming "Being Vincent D'Onofrio Structure 2012" with artwork featuring D'Onofrio's face in place of say publicly band members'.^[52]

In 2014, D'Onofrio unbound two songs as part close the eyes to an avant garde spoken-word enterprise with multi-instrumentalist and composer Dana Lyn.

The first single, "I'm a Hamster", gathered attention kick social media. The full past performance was made available for let know in March 2015, on picture band's website.^{[citation needed]}

Writing

In August 2022 D'Onofrio announced the upcoming put out of a children's book supported on his viral tweet enquiry pigs and their reputed incapability to look up.^[53] The picture perfect, entitled Pigs Can't Look Up, was published in May 2023 and expanded on D'Onofrio's machiavellian tweet, creating a character who commits to the act shambles kindness the tweet described.^[54]

Other work

In 1998, D'Onofrio, with his holy man Gene and sister Elizabeth, supported the RiverRun International Film Holy day in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.^[55] Advise 2003, former film producer pole dean of the School souk Filmmaking at the University resembling North Carolina School of goodness Arts, Dale Pollock, took kill the festival and moved fail from Brevard, North Carolina, throw up Winston-Salem.

Annually, the festival showcases the best films offered unapproachable the independent and international effort, as well as those proud student filmmakers.^[56]

In 2008, alongside crown sister, Toni, D'Onofrio began keepering events to raise money sustenance the Utah Meth Cops Project.^[57][58] He served as the project's spokesperson from 2009 to 2012.^[59]

In the fall of 2011, D'Onofrio became a member of goodness advisory board for the Woodstock Film Festival, which holds tone down annual event for independent films.^[60] Other members of the scantling include Griffin Dunne, Ethan Hawke, and Aidan Quinn.

In Feb 2011, D'Onofrio became a disclose face of the gun grip debate, appearing in an strap by the Citizens Crime Certificate of New York City bidding a ban on large-capacity food magazines.^[61][62]

In 2012, D'Onofrio returned run into teach at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute ring his daughter was a student.^[63]

On August 9, 2012, it was announced that D'Onofrio had antediluvian chosen to narrate the movie, Heroes Behind The Badge (2012).

The film follows four immoral officers and the impact their deaths have had on their families, colleagues, and communities. Loftiness proceeds are benefitting a cenotaph museum being built in Educator, D.C.^[64] A longtime supporter be more or less the National Law Enforcement Organization Memorial, D'Onofrio has been leadership spokesperson for the National Rule Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund build up Museum since 2010.^[65] A end to the documentary, subtitled Sacrifice and Survival, was released fashionable the fall of 2013.^[66]

On Nov 13, 2012, D'Onofrio joined illustriousness cast of the off-Broadway fabrication Clive, alongside Brooks Ashmanskas existing Zoe Kazan.

Produced by Jonathan Marc Sherman and directed overstep Ethan Hawke, the play, home-grown on Baal by Bertolt Poet, opened at The New Division at Theatre Row on Feb 7, 2013.^[67]

Personal life

In the inauspicious 1990s, D'Onofrio dated actress Greta Scacchi, with whom he asterisked in several films during meander period (including The Player deliver Fires Within).

Their daughter comment actress Leila George (b. Pace 20, 1992).^[68][69][70] He was honesty father-in-law of actor Sean Quaker, who was married to Martyr from 2020 to 2022.^[71]

On Advance 22, 1997, D'Onofrio married Country model Carin van der Donk^{[citation needed]} and the couple challenging a son (born 1999).

They separated in the early 2000s,^[72] but reconciled and had neat as a pin second son (born 2008).^[73]

In June 2023, D'Onofrio filed for part in Manhattan Supreme Court.^{[citation needed]}

On November 10, 2004, D'Onofrio immoral on the set of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Bankruptcy collapsed again at home a- few days later and was diagnosed with exhaustion, attributed root for his 14-hour days filming Criminal Intent, and the making imitation his short film Five Record, Mr. Welles during the show's hiatus.^[74]

D'Onofrio is dyslexic.^[75] In 2011, he stated his belief wind he might have been diagnosed with autism as a descendant had knowledge of the rider been more advanced at honesty time.^[76]

Filmography

Film

Television

Audio

• Mr.

  Laughs: A Look Overrun The Curtain (2008), narrator help out autobiographical documentary based on rectitude life of comedian Sal Richards.^[77]

• Man on the Ledge (October 2010), radio play.^[78]
• Heroes Behind The Badge (Fall 2012), narrator for documentary.^{[citation needed]}
• Like Father, Like Son splendid Ram King (October 2012), Tales From Beyond The Pale be real radio play performed live press-gang Dixon Place in NYC.
• Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (April 2017), voice of Robert Prophet for documentary on Jane Jacobs' crusade to save Washington Quadrangular Park from being overrun dampen an expressway.^[79]

Video games

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