Background
D'Onofrio, Vincent was born on June 30, 1959 in Brooklyn.
D'Onofrio, Vincent was born on June 30, 1959 in Brooklyn.
He had done some TV work before he first drew attention, bleached blond, in Adventures in Babysitting (87, Chris Columbus). He then put on a mass of flab to play the victimized Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket (87, Stanley Kubrick). After that he was in Mystic Pizza (88, Donald Petrie); to Australia for The Blood of Heroes (90, David Peoples); Signs of Life (89. John David Coles); in the very strange Naked Tango (91, Leonard Schrader); with one speech as a spectator in Dealey Plaza in JFK (91, Oliver Stone); in Fires Within (91, Gillian Armstrong), with Greta Scacchi, to whom he was briefly married; Dying Young (91, Joel Schumacher); Crooked Hearts (91, Michael Bortman); as the wretched writer in The Player (92, Robert Altman).
In Malcolm X (92, Spike Lee), he again played the man in Dealev Plaza. He was Judith Malina’s son in Household Saints (93, Nancy Savoca); Mr. Wonderful (93, Anthony Minghella); Being Human (94. Bill Forsyth); astonishingly good as Orson Welles in Ed Wood (94, Tim Burton); Imaginary Crimes (94, Anthony Drazan); Stuart Saves His Family (95, Harold Ramis); Strange Days (95, Kathryn Bigelow).
Then came The Whole Wide World (96, Dan Ireland), coproduced by D’Onofrio, in which he played the pulp novelist, Robert E. Howard, and achieved a remarkable love story with Renee Zellweger. That was followed by the Las Vegas story The Winner (97, Alex Cox); Feeling Minnesota (96, Steven Baigelman). Then he played the victim of a bizarre subway accident on maybe the most arresting episode of Homicide (97). He was a paraplegic in Good Luck (97, Richard LaBrie); a bug in Men in Black (97, Barrv Sonnenfeld); The Newton Boys (98, Richard Linklater); Claire Dolan (98, Lodge Kerrigan); The Thirteenth Floor (99, Josef Rusnak); as Abbie Hoffman in Steal This Movie (00, Robert Greenwald), which he also helped produce; The Cell (00, Tarsem Singh), playing the serial killer; Impostor (00, Gary Fleder); The Salton Sea (01, D. J. Caruso); Last Word on Paradise (aka Chelsea Walls) (01, Ethan Hawke); The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (01, Peter Care); Happy Accidents (01, Brad Anderson).
Since 2001 he’s had a lead role in Law & Order.
Married Greta Scacchi, 1991 (divorced 1993). 1 child Leila George. Married Carin van der Donk, March 22, 1997.
Children: Elias Gene, Luca.