* 1960, Brooklyn, NY

Husky-voiced young supporting player who made a strong impression as the dangerously unstable Private Pyle in Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET (1987) and played Lili Taylor's lovable hunk in the bittersweet MYSTIC PIZZA (1988). He also appeared with Julia Roberts in DYING YOUNG (1991) and as a boat yard worker committed to his retarded brother in SIGNS OF LIFE (1989).

The 1990s brought D'Onofrio supporting roles in high-profile ensemble pictures: first as witness Bill Newman in Oliver Stone's oppositional JFK (1991), a role he reprised in a bit part for Spike Lee's MALCOLM X (1992). He was most memorable in Robert Altman's winsome industry satire THE PLAYER (1992). As David Kahane, the beefy, thwarted lover of 50s foreign films and his own scripts, D'Onofrio's victim of Hollywood and homicide was small but central to the film's brilliantly snaking plot. D'Onofrio also turned up in slight comedies of an "ethnic" variety such as MR. WONDERFUL (1993), as Matt Dillon's best friend and as Joseph in Nancy Savoca's lovely HOUSEHOLD SAINTS (1993). He played a young Orson Welles offering advice to the eager but untalented "auteur" hero of Tim Burton's ED WOOD (1994).

Filmography Vincent D'Onofrio

1984   THE FIRST TURN-ON!!       

1987   ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING      

1987   FULL METAL JACKET

1988   MYSTIC PIZZA        

1989   SIGNS OF LIFE        

1990   THE BLOOD OF HEROES/SALUTE OF THE JUGGER 

1991   CROOKED HEARTS   

1991   DYING YOUNG

1991   FIRES WITHIN         

1991   JFK    

1991   NAKED TANGO        

1992   MALCOLM X  

1992   THE PLAYER  

1993   HOUSEHOLD SAINTS

1993   MR. WONDERFUL       

1994   BEING HUMAN

1994   ED WOOD     

1994   IMAGINARY CRIMES                  

1994   NUNZIO'S SECOND COUSIN 

1995   STRANGE DAYS       

1995   STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY