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Vincent D'Onofrio (born June 30, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American character actor and producer
While he was born in Brooklyn, D’Onofrio’s family moved around when he was younger and he grew up in Hawaii, Florida and Colorado. It wasn’t until the late 70’s, when he was accepted for study with the American Stanislavsky Theatre, that he returned New York. His sister Elizabeth also studied with the same group.
1984 was an important year for the young D’Onofrio. He became a full member of the American Stanislavsky Theatre and he appeared in a number of their productions including Of Mice and Men
and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He also made his Broadway debut as Nick Rizzoli in Open Admissions. Before this breakthrough he had been acting in NYU student films and was working as a bouncer.
It was his turn as the disturbed and bullied Private Leonard 'Gomer Pyle' Lawrence in
Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 film, Full Metal Jacket, that first brought him to the film world’s attention. In gaining 70 pounds for the role he showed his commitment to the craft. Since then he has played a wide variety of roles including iconic director
Orson Welles in
Tim Burton’s Ed Wood and Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman in Steal This Movie.
He has also dabbled in film production and to date has produced two movies, The Whole Wide World
and Guy in 1996 and 1997 respectively and executive produced two others, The Velocity of Gary
in 1998 and Steal This Movie in 2000.
Recently he has moved to the small screen where he has been no less appreciated. He now plays Detective Robert Goren, a principal character, on the NBC TV show '.
He received an Emmy nomination for his appearance as John Lange, the doomed accident/murder victim in the acclaimed "Subway" episode of '.
On 9 February 2005, NBC
announced that
Chris Noth, who played Detective Mike Logan in Law & Order from 1990 to 1995, would join the cast of as Det. Logan from the 2005-2006 season. Noth is to relieve D'Onofrio, with each actor taking the lead in 11 of the 22 or so episodes.
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