![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: June 30, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY Biography:An actor whose hulking presence belies his ability to slip quietly into an astonishing variety of roles, "Vincent D'Onofrio" is one of Hollywood's most unpredictable and compelling performers. Throughout his career, D'Onofrio has played a diverse range of characters, from "Full Metal Jacket"'s fatally unhinged army recruit to a wholly convincing "Orson Welles" in "Ed Wood" to a bisexual porn star in "The Velocity of Gary".
Born in Brooklyn, NY, on June 30, 1959, D'Onofrio was raised in the diverse locales of Hawaii, Colorado, and Miami's Hialeah section. His career as an actor began on the stage, with study under Sonia Moore of New York's American Stanislavsky Theatre and Sharon Chatten at the Actors Studio. D'Onofrio's early years in the theater were filled with an obligatory helping of obscurity and miniscule paychecks (so miniscule that he worked for a time as a bouncer to help pay the bills).... Full Biography
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