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Born
June 30, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height
1.92m (6' 4")
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",... More
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A Murderer Among Us
Detective Robert Goren
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American Falls
Detective Foster
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Anti-Thesis
Detective Robert Goren
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Ass Backwards
Bruce
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Blind Spot
Detective Robert Goren
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Chained
Bob
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Chronicle
Agent Eckhart
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Cruise to Nowhere
Detective Robert Goren
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Fire with Fire
Hagan
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High Midnight
Marshal Stoudenmire
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In the Dark
Detective Robert Goren
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Detective Robert Goren (voice)
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Legion
Detective Robert Goren
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One
Detective Robert Goren
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Proud Flesh
Detective Robert Goren
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Sherlock
Professor Moriarty
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Sinister
Professor Jonas
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Staten Island
Parmie Tarzo
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The Afternoon Plane
Leon Wolf (as Vincent Philip D'Onofrio)
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The Break-Up
Dennis Grobowski
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The Unblinking Eye
Detective Robert Goren
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Vacancy
Detective Robert Goren
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Full 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, Cameron Diaz, Renée Zellweger, Marisa Tomei, Tracey Ullman, Rebecca De Mornay and Lili Taylor.
PNOP Rankings
- 1Sexiest Actresses
- 2Best Movies
- 3Prettiest Celebrities
- 4Best Actors
- 5Scariest Movie Characters
- 6Top 37 Sexy Actresses
PNOP TOP
- 1The Godfather 1972
- 2The Shawshank Redemption 1994
- 3Fight Club 1999
- 4Inception 2010
- 5Pulp Fiction 1994
- 1Batman 1992
- 2Planet Earth 2006
- 3I'm Alan Partridge 1997
- 4Dragon Ball Z: Doragon bôru zetto 1989
- 5The Office 2005
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