Vincent D’Onofrio

Vincent Phillip D’Onofrio (June 30, 1959) is an American actor, producer, director, and singer. He is known for his supporting and leading roles in both film and television. He made his film debut in Michael Herz & Lloyd Kaufman’s The First Turn-On!! (1983),. His breakout role was in Stanley Kubrick‘s Full Metal Jacket (1987), with Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard, and Ed O’Ross. Other films in the 1980s include Chris Columbus’s Adventures in Babysitting (1987), with Elisabeth Shue, Keith Coogan, Anthony Rapp, and Maia Brewton; Mystic Pizza (1988), with Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, William R. Moses, Adam Storke, and Conchata Ferrell; Signs of Life (1989) with Beau Bridges, Arthur Kennedy, Kathy Bates, Mary-Louise Parker, Will Patton, and Kate Reid; and The Blood of Heroes (1989), with Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Delroy Lindo, Anna Katarina, Justin Monjo, Hugh Keays-Byrne, and Richard Norton.

Films in the early 1990s include Crooked Hearts (1991), with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Berg, Cindy Pickett, Juliette Lewis, Noah Wyle, and Peter Coyote; Joel Schumacher’s Dying Young (1991), with Roberts, Campbell Scott, Colleen Dewhurst, David Selby, and Ellen Burstyn; Gillian Armstrong’s Fires Within (1991), with Jimmy Smits and Greta Scacchi (mother of his daughter, actress Leslie George); Naked Tango (1991), with Mathilda May, Fernando Ray, Anthony Pratt, Esai Morales, and Josh Mostel; Oliver Stone‘s JFK (1991), with Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Sissy Spacek, and John Candy; Robert Altman‘s The Player (1992), with Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Brion James and Cynthia Stevenson; Salt on Our Skin (1992), with Scacchi, Shirley Henderson, and Claudine Auger; Being Human (1993), with Robin Williams, John Turturro, Bill Nighy, Robert Carlyle and Theresa Russell; Nancy Savoca’s Household Saints (1993), with Tracy Ullman, Taylor, Michael Rispoli, Victor Argo, Michael Imperioli, and Illeana Douglas; Anthony Minghella’s Mr. Wonderful (1993), with Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Parker, William Hurt, Dan Hedaya, Bruce Kirby, Luis Guzmán, Bruce Altman, James Gandolfini, and Jessica Harper; Tim Burton‘s Ed Wood (1994), with Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie, and Bill Murray; Anthony Drazan’s Imaginary Crimes (1994), with Harvey Keitel, Fairuza Balk, Kelly Lynch, Seymour Cassel, and Elisabeth Moss; Harold Ramis’s Stuart Saves His Family (1995), with Al Franken, Laura San Giacomo, Shirley Knight, Harris Yulin, and Joe Flaherty; and Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days (1995), with Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Richard Edson, and William Fichtner.

Films in the mid to late 1990s include The Whole Wide World (1996), with Renée Zellweger; Alex Cox’s The Winner (1996), with Rebecca De Mornay, Edson, Lindo, Michael Madsen, Billy Bob Thornton, and Frank Whaley; Feeling Minnesota (1996), with Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz, Tuesday Weld, Dan Aykroyd, and Lindo; Good Luck (1996), with Gregory Hines, Max Gail, and James Earl Jones; Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Guy (1996), with Hope Davis, Sandy Martin, Michael Massee, John F. O’Donohue and Richard Portnow; Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black (1997), with Will Smith and Jones; Richard Linklater‘s The Newton Boys (1998), with Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, and Dwight Yoakam; Lodge Karrigan’s Claire Dolan (1998), with Katrin Cartlidge and Colm Meaney; The Velocity of Gary (1998), with Salma Hayek; and The Thirteenth Floor (1999), with Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Dennis Haysbert.

Films in the early 2000s include Brad Anderson’s Happy Accidents (2000), with Marisa Tomei; Robert Greenwald’s Steal This Movie! (2000), with Janeane Garofalo, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Corrigan, Donal Logue, and Panou; Spanish Judges (2000), with Matthew Lillard, Valeria Golino, Mark Boone Junior, and Tamara Mello; Tarsem Singh’s The Cell (2000), with Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn; Chelsea Walls (2001), with Kris Kristofferson, Uma Thurman, Rosario Dawson, Natasha Richardson, Robert Sean Leonard, Kevin Corrigan, and Tuesday Weld; Impostor (2001), with Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, and Mekhi Phifer; Bark! (2002), with Heather Morgan, Lee Tergesen, Lisa Kudrow, and Hank Azaria; The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), with Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, and Jodie Foster; and The Salton Sea (2002), with Val Kilmer, Adam Goldberg, Guzmán, Doug Hutchison, Anthony LaPaglia, Glenn Plummer, Peter Sarsgaard, Deborah Kara Unger, Chandra West, and B.D. Wong.

Films in the mid to late 2000s include Thumbsucker (2005), with Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Kelli Garner, Benjamin Bratt, Vaughn, and Keanu Reeves; The Break-Up (2006), with Vaughn, Jennifer Aniston, Joey Lauren Adams, Ann-Margret, Judy Davis, Jon Favreau, Cole Hauser, John Michael Higgins, and Justin Long; The Narrows (2008), with Kevin Zegers, Sophia Bush, Eddie Cahill, Monica Keena, Roger Rees, Michael Kelly, and Anthony Fazio; an uncredited role in Cadillac Records (2008), with Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Gabrielle Union, Columbus Short, Cedric the Entertainer, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Eamonn Walker, Mos Def, and Beyoncé Knowles; and Staten Island (2009), with Hawke, Cassel, Julianne Nicholson, and Adrian Martinez.

Films in the 2010s include Antoine Fuqua’s Brooklyn’s Finest (2010), with Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Patton, Taylor, Brían F. O’Byrne, Shannon Kane, and Ellen Barkin; Kill the Irishman (2011), with Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, and Kilmer; Chained (2012), with Eamon Farren, Gina Philips, Conor Leslie, Jake Weber, and Julia Ormond; Fire with Fire (2012), with Josh Duhamel, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, and Vinnie Jones; Ass Backwards (2013), with June Diane Raphael, Casey Wilson, Jon Cryer, Brian Geraghty, Bob Odenkirk, Paul Scheer, and Alicia Silverstone; Charlie Countryman (2013), with Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Rupert Grint, Melissa Leo, and James Buckley; Chlorine (2013), with Kyra Sedgwick, Flora Cross, Ryan Donowho, Jordan Belfi, Elisabeth Röhm, Michele Hicks, Dreama Walker, Brian Petsos, Matt Ball, Rhys Coiro, and Tom Sizemore; Escape Plan (2013), with Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel, 50 Cent, Jones, Amy Ryan, and Sam Neill; Mall (2014), with Gina Gershon, Cameron Monaghan, James Frecheville, John Hensley, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Stephen Taylor, and Peter Stormare; and The Judge (2014), with Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Jeremy Strong, Dax Shepard and Thornton.

Films in the mid to late 2010s include Run All Night (2015), with Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman, Common and Ed Harris; Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Broken Horses (2015), with Anton Yelchin, Chris Marquette, María Valverde, Thomas Jane, and Sean Patrick Flanery; Jurassic World (2015), with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard; Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016), with Kevin de Paula, Vincent D’Onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro, Diego Boneta, and Meaney; In Dubious Battle (2016), with James Franco (who also directed), Nat Wolff, Josh Hutcherson, Duvall, Selena Gomez, Keegan Allen, and Harris; The Magnificent Seven (2016), with Denzel Washington, Pratt, Hawke, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, and Sarsgaard; Rings (2017), with Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Aimee Teegarden, and Bonnie Morgan; CHiPs (2017), with Dax Shepard (who also directed), Michael Peña, Rosa Salazar, and Adam Brody; El Camino Christmas (2017), with Luke Grimes, Shepard, Kurtwood Smith, Michelle Mylett, Emilio Rivera, Kimberly Quinn, Jessica Alba, Tim Allen, and Jimmy O. Yang; Death Wish (2018), with Willis, Shue, Dean Norris, and Kimberly Elise; and The Kid (2019), with Hawke, Dane DeHaan, Jake Schur, Leila George, Pratt, and Baldwin.

Films in the 2020s include Michael Showalter’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021), with Jessica Chasrain, Andrew Garfield, and Cherry Jones; The Unforgivable (2021), with Sandra Bullock, Jon Bernthal, Richard Thomas, Linda Emond, Aisling Franciosi, Rob Morgan, and Viola Davis; Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money (2023), with Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen; Wildcat (2023), with Maya Hawke, Rafael Casal, Philip Ettinger, Cooper Hoffman, Steve Zahn, and Laura Linney; and Lift (2024), with Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Úrsula Corberó, Billy Magnussen, Jacob Batalon, Jean Reno, and Sam Worthington.

On TV he’s known for his lead role as New York City Police Detective Robert Goren in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–11), collectively with Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance, Chris Noth, Sciorra, Julianne Nicholson, Eric Bogosian, Alicia Witt, Jeff Goldblum, Saffron Burrows, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Jay O. Sanders; as well as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin on various Marvel Cinematic Universe entries. TV movies include The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998), with Edward James Olmos, Donnie Wahlberg, Richard Schiff, and Lorraine Bracco; The Championship Season (1999), with Terry Kinney, Tony Shalhoub, Sinise, and Paul Sorvino (who also directed); The Red Sneakers (2002), with Vanessa Bell Calloway, Dempsey Pappion, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Gregory Hines (who also directed); and Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002), with James D’Arcy, Gabrielle Anwar, and Richard E. Grant.

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

The First Turn-On! (1983) – directed by Lloyd Kaufman & Michael Herz
It Don’t Pay to Be an Honest Citizen (1984) – directed by Jacob Burckhardt
Full Metal Jacket (1987)** – directed by Stanley Kubrick
Adventures in Babysitting (1987) – directed by Chris Columbus
Mystic Pizza (1988) – directed by Donald Petrie
Signs of Life (1989) – directed by John David Coles
The Blood of Heroes (1989) – directed by David Webb Peoples
Crooked Hearts (1991) – directed by Michael Bortman
Dying Young (1991) – directed by Joel Schumacher
Fires Within (1991) – directed by Gillian Armstrong
Naked Tango (1991) – directed by Leonard Schrader
JFK (1991) – directed by Oliver Stone
The Player (1992) – directed by Robert Altman
Salt on Our Skin (1992) – directed by Andrew Birkin
Being Human (1993) – directed by Bill Forsyth
Household Saints (1993) – directed by Nancy Savoca
Mr. Wonderful (1993) – directed by Anthony Minghella
Ed Wood (1994) – directed by Tim Burton – voice dubbed by Maurice LaMarche
The Investigator (1994) – directed by Matthew Tabak – short
Imaginary Crimes (1994) – directed by Anthony Drazan
Stuart Saves His Family (1995) – directed by Harold Ramis
Strange Days (1995) – directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Hotel Paradise (1995) – directed by Nicholas Roeg – short
The Whole Wide World (1996) – directed by Dan Ireland – also producer
The Winner (1996) – directed by Alex Cox
Feeling Minnesota (1996) – directed by Steven Baigelman
Good Luck (1996) – directed by Richard LaBrie
Boys Life 2 (1997) – directed by Nickolas Perry, Tom DeCerchio, Mark Christopher, & Tom Donaghy – anthology
Men in Black (1997)* – directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Guy (1997) – directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg – also producer
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998) – directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá – TV movie
The Newton Boys (1998) – directed by Richard Linklater
Claire Dolan (1998) – directed by Lodge Kerrigan
The Velocity of Gary (1998) – directed by Dan Ireland – also executive producer
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) – directed by Josef Rusnak
The Championship Season (1999) – directed by Paul Sorvino – TV movie
Happy Accidents (2000) – directed by Brad Anderson
Spanish Judges (2000) – directed by Oz Scott
Steal This Movie! (2000) – directed by Robert Greenwald – also executive producer
The Cell (2000) – directed by Tarsem Singh
Chelsea Walls (2001) – directed by Ethan Hawke
Impostor (2001) – directed by Gary Fleder
Bark! (2002) – directed by Katarzyna Adamik
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) – directed by Peter Care
The Red Sneakers (2002) – directed by Gregory Hines – TV movie
The Salton Sea (2002) – directed by D. J. Caruso
Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002) – directed by Graham Theakston – TV movie
Thumbsucker (2005) – directed by Mike Mills
Five Minutes, Mr. Welles (2005) – also director, writer, producer – short
The Break-Up (2006) – directed by Peyton Reed
The Narrows (2008) – directed by François Velle
Cadillac Records (2009) – directed by Darnell Martin – uncredited
Ipso facto (2009) – directed by Anna-Mária Vág – executive producer only – short
Staten Island (2009) – directed by James DeMonaco
The New Tenants (2009) – directed by Joachim Back – short
Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York (2010) – directed by Elena Mosaner – documentary – executive producer only
Don’t Go in the Woods (2010) – direcor, writer, uncredited voice
Brooklyn’s Finest (2010) – directed by Antoine Fuqua
Kill the Irishman (2011) – directed by Jonathan Hensleigh
Crackers (2012) – directed by Gregory Principato – short
Chained (2012) – directed by Jennifer Lynch
Fire with Fire (2012) – directed by David Barrett
Sinister (2012) – directed by Scott Derrickson – uncredited
Ass Backwards (2013) – directed by Chris Nelson
Charlie Countryman (2013) – directed by Fredrik Bond
Chlorine (2013) – directed by Jay Alaimo
American Falls (2013) – directed by Bé Garrett
Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013) – directed by Wayne Kramer
Escape Plan (2013) – directed by Swedish filmmaker Mikael Håfström
The Unlicensed Therapist (2014) – directed by Tom DeCerchio – short
Mall (2014) – directed by Joe Hahn
The Judge (2014) – directed by David Dobkin
Run All Night (2015) – directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Broken Horses (2015) – directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Jurassic World (2015) – directed by Colin Trevorrow
Sinister 2 (2015) – directed by Ciaran Foy – credit only
Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016) – directed by Jeff & Michael Zimbalist
In Dubious Battle (2016) – directed by James Franco
The Magnificent Seven (2016)* – directed by Antoine Fuqua
Phantom Boy (2016) – directed by Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol – English dub – France/Belgium
Rings (2017) – directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez
CHiPs (2017) – directed by Dax Shepard
El Camino Christmas (2017) – directed by David E. Talbert
Death Wish (2018) – directed by Eli Roth
The Kid (2019) – also director
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) – directed by Michael Show alter
The Unforgivable (2021) – directed by Nora Fingscheidt
Dumb Money (2023) – directed by Craig Gillespie
Wildcat (2023) – directed by Ethan Hawke
Lift (2024) – directed by F. Gary Gray

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