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.
Convention Guest Appearances
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2025
- Rhode Island Comic Con 2025 - November 7-9, 2025 in Providence, RI, USA
- GalaxyCon San Jose 2025 - August 15-17, 2025 in San Jose, CA, USA
- Dublin Comic Con: Summer Edition 2025 - August 9-10, 2025 in Dublin, Ireland
- Washington State Summer Con 2025 - June 20-22, 2025 in Puyallup, WA, USA
- Phoenix Fan Fusion 2025 - June 6-8, 2025 in Phoenix, AZ, USA
Motor City Comic Con 2025 - May 16-18, 2025 in Novi, MI, USACancelled Appearance- Monster-Mania Con 2025 - May 9-11, 2025 in Baltimore, MD, USA
Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo 2025 - April 25-27, 2025 in Huntsville, AL, USACancelled Appearance- Middle East Film and Comic Con 2025 - April 18-20, 2025 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- El Paso Comic Con 2025 - April 11-13, 2025 in El Paso, TX, USA
- SC Comicon 2025 - April 5-6, 2025 in Greenville, SC, USA
- GalaxyCon Richmond 2025 - March 27-30, 2025 in Richmond, VA, USA
- Planet Comicon Kansas City 2025 - March 21-23, 2025 in Kansas City, MO, USA
Indiana Comic Convention 2025 - March 14-16, 2025 in Indianapolis, IN, USACancelled Appearance- Elite_Comics11 Expo 2025 - March 8-9, 2025 in Queens, NY, 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 AppearanceMotor City Comic Con 2024 - November 8-10, 2024 in Novi, MI, USACancelled AppearanceWinnipeg Comiccon 2024 - October 25-27, 2024 in Winnipeg, MBCancelled AppearanceEdmonton Expo 2024 - September 20-22, 2024 in Edmonton, ABCancelled Appearance- Dragon Con 2024 - August 29 - September 2, 2024 in Atlanta, GA, USA
- Tampa Bay Comic Convention 2024 - August 23-25, 2024 in Tampa, FL, 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
- Des Moines Con 2024 - May 31 - June 2, 2024 in Des Moines, IA, USA
- GalaxyCon Oklahoma City 2024 - May 24-26, 2024 in Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- South Texas Comic Con 2024 - April 26-28, 2024 in McAllen, TX, USA
Fan Expo Cleveland 2024 - April 12-14, 2024 in Cleveland, OH, USACancelled AppearancePlanet Comicon Kansas City 2024 - March 8-10, 2024 in Kansas City, MO, 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
- Grand Rapids Comic-Con 2023 - November 3-5, 2023 in Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Cincinnati Comic Expo 2023 - September 22-24, 2023 in Cincinnati, OH, USA
- FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention 2023 - September 21-23, 2023 in Salt Lake City, UT, 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
- Washington State Summer Con 2023 - June 23-25, 2023 in Puyallup, WA, 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
- Imperial Commissary Collectors Convention 2023 - May 26-28, 2023 in Lebanon, TN, 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
- Rhode Island Comic Con 2022 - November 4-6, 2022 in Providence, RI, USA
- FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention 2022 - September 22-24, 2022 in Salt Lake City, UT, USA
38 confirmed guest appearances