Vincent D'Onofrio

Actor
New York, NY, USA






Biography:
Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio was born on June 30, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, to Phyllis, a restaurant manager and server, and Gene D'Onofrio, a theatre production assistant and interior designer. He is of Italian descent and has two older sisters. He studied at the Actors Studio and the American Stanislavski Theatre. Vincent D'Onofrio is known as an "actor's actor". The wide variety of roles he has played and the quality of his work have earned him a reputation as a versatile talent.
His first paid role was in Off-Broadway's "This Property Is Condemned". He continued appearing in plays and worked as a bouncer, a bodyguard and a delivery man. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in "Open Admissions", followed by work in numerous other stage plays. In 2012, D'Onofrio returned to teach at the Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute. As a film actor, D'Onofrio's career break came when he played a mentally unbalanced recruit in Full Metal Jacket (1987), directed by the renowned Stanley Kubrick. For this role D'Onofrio gained nearly 70 pounds. He had a major role in Dying Young (1991), and appeared prominently in the box-office smash Men in Black (1997) as the bad guy (Edgar "The Bug").
Other films of note in which he has appeared are Mystic Pizza (1988), JFK (1991), The Player (1992), Ed Wood (1994), The Cell (2000), The Break-Up (2006) and Jurassic World (2015). In 1996, D'Onofrio garnered critical acclaim along with co-star Renée Zellweger for The Whole Wide World (1996), which he helped produce. He also made a guest appearance in The Subway (1997), where he played an accident victim who could not be rescued and was destined to die. For this performance he won an Emmy nomination. In 2000, he both produced and starred in Steal This Movie (2000), a biopic of radical leader Abbie Hoffman.
Anime Convention Guest Appearances
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2025
- GalaxyCon San Jose 2025 - August 15-17, 2025 in San Jose, CA, USA
- GalaxyCon Richmond 2025 - March 27-30, 2025 in Richmond, VA, USA
Fan Expo Vancouver 2025 - February 21-23, 2025 in Vancouver, BCCancelled Appearance 2024Fan Expo San Francisco 2024 - November 29 - December 1, 2024 in San Francisco, CA, USACancelled AppearanceEdmonton Expo 2024 - September 20-22, 2024 in Edmonton, ABCancelled Appearance- Dragon Con 2024 - August 29 - September 2, 2024 in Atlanta, GA, USA
Fan Expo Chicago 2024 - August 16-18, 2024 in Rosemont, IL, USACancelled Appearance- Montreal Comiccon 2024 - July 5-7, 2024 in Montreal, QC
- Fan Expo Boston 2024 - June 14-16, 2024 in Boston, MA, USA
- GalaxyCon Oklahoma City 2024 - May 24-26, 2024 in Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Fan Expo Cleveland 2024 - April 12-14, 2024 in Cleveland, OH, USACancelled AppearanceFan Expo Vancouver 2024 - February 17-19, 2024 in Vancouver, BCCancelled AppearanceFan Expo Portland 2024 - January 12-14, 2024 in Portland, OR, USACancelled Appearance- Fan Expo New Orleans 2024 - January 5-7, 2024 in New Orleans, LA, USA 2023
- GalaxyCon Columbus 2023 - December 1-3, 2023 in Columbus, OH, USA
- GalaxyCon Austin 2023 - September 1-3, 2023 in Austin, TX, USA
- Fan Expo Canada 2023 - August 24-27, 2023 in Toronto, ON
- GalaxyCon Raleigh 2023 - July 27-30, 2023 in Raleigh, NC, USA
- Fan Expo Denver 2023 - June 30 - July 2, 2023 in Denver, CO, USA
- Fan Expo Dallas 2023 - June 9-11, 2023 in Dallas, TX, USA
- Fan Expo Philadelphia 2023 - June 2-4, 2023 in Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Calgary Expo 2023 - April 27-30, 2023 in Calgary, AB
- MegaCon Orlando 2023 - March 30 - April 2, 2023 in Orlando, FL, USA
- GalaxyCon Richmond 2023 - March 24-26, 2023 in Richmond, VA, USA
Fan Expo Cleveland 2023 - March 24-26, 2023 in Cleveland, OH, USACancelled Appearance 2022- GalaxyCon Columbus 2022 - December 2-4, 2022 in Columbus, OH, USA
18 confirmed guest appearances
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