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. His most notable roles include Private Leonard “Gomer Pyle” Lawrence in Stanley Kubrick‘s Full Metal Jacket (1987), Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. Howard in The Whole Wide World (1996), co-starring Renée Zellweger; Wilson Fisk/Kingpin on Netflix series Daredevil (2015–2018), NYPD Detective Robert Goren on the crime drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001-2011), Edgar the Bug in Men in Black (1997), starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones; serial killer Carl Stargher in The Cell (2000), and Vic Hoskins in Jurassic World (2015), with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. Among various honors, is a Saturn Award winner, an Emmy Award nominee and a Jay Award 2018 winner.

Notable roles in the 90s include 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; Being Human (1993), with Robin Williams, John Turturro, Bill Nighy, Robert Carlyle and Theresa Russell; Tim Burton‘s Ed Wood (1994), with Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie, and Bill Murray; Feeling Minnesota (1996), with Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz, Tuesday Weld, Dan Aykroyd, and Delroy Lindo; Richard Linklater‘s The Newton Boys (1998), with Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, and Dwight Yoakam; and The Velocity of Gary (1998), with Salma Hayek.

Films in the 2000s include Happy Accidents (2000), with Marisa Tomei; The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), with Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, and Jodie Foster; Thumbsucker (2005), with Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Kelli Garner, Benjamin Bratt, Vince Vaughn, and Keanu Reeves; Kill the Irishman (2011), with Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, and Val Kilmer; The Judge (2014), with Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Jeremy Strong, Dax Shepard and Billy Bob Thornton; Run All Night (2015), with Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman, Common and Ed Harris; and The Magnificent Seven (2016), with Denzel Washington, Pratt, Hawke, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, and Peter Sarsgaard.

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 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
Spanish Judges (1999) – directed by Oz Scott
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) – directed by Josef Rusnak
Happy Accidents (2000) – directed by
Brad Anderson
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 (2002) – directed by Gary Fleder
Bark! (2002) – directed by Katarzyna Adamik
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) – directed by Peter Care
The Salton Sea (2002) – directed by D. J. Caruso
Thumbsucker (2005) – directed by Mike Mills
Five Minutes, Mr. Welles (2005) – also director, writer, producer – short
2006
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 (2020) – directed by Michael Showalter

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