Vincent D'Onofrio

[Jessica]

I just realized that this guy from Law & Order Criminal Intent:



is also this guy from Full Metal Jacket:



Who knew?? :shrug:

[slackmaster]

1. His ass no longer resembles

150 pounds of bubble gum.

[Spacemom]

10. He's also

This Guy



Who would of thunk it? :D

[chenGOD]

2. He's also the guy who plays the serial killer in "The Cell"

Which was not really a great movie but had some fantastic sets and a nice spooky atmosphere.

[vi5]

There was some great imagery in that movie.

It was definitely an interesting movie for what it was. And he was good in it.

[vi5]

3. He's a great actor but horrible on that show....

An actor that hammy and over the top can pull it off in the right roles (Full Metal Jacket, The Cell, Men In Black) but in the contraints of a weekly TV drama his style, coupled with the way that role is written is difficult to watch.

[Not_Giving_Up]

7. No way, I love CI

Although I refer to it as "Creepy Guy"....He creeps into people's heads!

[fluffernutter]

8. i completely agree.

his real talent is being wasted on that show.

[Jessica]

9. Kind of like David Caruso ... the Head Super Cheese.

I'm a huge CSI fan, but when they cast him for Miami - I wanted to scream.

[vi5]

19. No, Caruso is a horrible actor (in my opinion) in any role...

D'onofrio has been stellar in many film roles. Caruso is horrible. His faux smoldering glare is the most pathetic attempt at "acting" I've ever seen and he employs it in every role. That along with the "get up close to someone, look away, and whisper something threatening to them in a very serious voice so they know I mean business" that he uses EVERY SINGLE TIME.

[Jessica]

24. And he doesn't do anything in CSI: Miami ..

... he just vomits a constant stream of cheesy one-liners. To cast him as Grissom's counterpart is a travesty to the entertainment world.

[Rob H.]

28. Some other things Caruso does, too

Whenever his character's making a really dramatic point he puts his hands on his hips and tilts his head to one side. I don't usually watch the show, but a friend of mine pointed that out to me and I watched it just to see for myself. Sure enough, it was, "Uh-oh, he's about to say something important. Let's see--hands on his hips, and...there goes the head!"

If he had to say something super-dramatic, I wonder what he would do.

Caine: I'm sorry to have to tell you this, ma'am, but your children and husband were murdered in the course of an armed robbery by a person or persons unknown.

Grief-stricken woman: Oh, my God, what...what am I going to do? They were all I had and now I just--wait a minute. Why are you lying on your side on the ground?

[bluedeminredstate]

17. In his defense

I don't think it's that he is hammy, I think it's the character. He'll resort to anything to get the perp - he seduces them, he frightens them, he screams at them, he comforts them.
He's supposedly a former military intel guy with a schitzophrenic mother - full of information that his colleagues just ride along with. He's the only L&O character that we have a back story on, so the episode is also about how this semi-social misfit reels them in.
I love watching him.

[vi5]

22. Like I said, it's definitely partly the writing and the role...

I don't deny that. But the guy as an actor definitely has a tendency to "work big", so you can't totally absolve his acting style from the role.

[Can o Beans]

4. No way...

really?

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. He was also in ID4

He was the guy who took them into Area 51's clean room with the long haired crazy looking guy.

[BigMcLargehuge]

39. That was Adam Baldwin not Vincent

[MsAnthropy]

6. And the alien in "Men in Black"

He manages to look completely different in every role.

[soleft]

43. who sounds just like Franken doing Limbaugh

[bluedeminredstate]

11. Lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelove

him.
There. I feel better..:loveya:



On another note, if NBC keeps preempting this show I'm going to go nuts! Between TNT, USA Network and NBC, they show
Law & Order SVU about 400 times a week. L&O CI is a much better show. What's wrong with these people?

[Burma Jones]

12. He also did a great job on an episode of "Homicide"

Where he was a doomed man that had been pushed in the path of a subway car and was basically split in half.............

[Patiod]

46. Oooo! "The Subway"

I loved him in that, but don't like him at all in his current series.



/misses "Homicide"

[RPM]

13. Twitchy

That's my nickname for him on L&O:CI.

I love his character, but he exudes a contagous nervousness

[peekaloo]

14. I think he's riffing off Columbo.

[RPM]

16. before my time...

... that colombo dude must have been one twitchy mo-fo

[AverageJoe]

15. Also great in the movie *The Whole Wide World*

about Robert E. Howard, the guy who wrote the original Conan the Barbarian stories for the pulp magazines. That's a great little biopic--also stars Renee Zelwiger.

[bluedeminredstate]

23. I just saw that last week.

I really liked it. It was the kind of movie that stays with you for a while.

[Minstrel Boy]

29. That was a beautiful little film.

I just agonized for the poor guy.

[Lavender Brown]

18. I always get him confused with Mark Ruffalo

:shrug: but I do like him on his show.

[Mistra_Know_It_All]

20. I did - I'd recognise Private Pile anywhere

[JVS]

21. Can we get a pic of the guy from Full Metal Jacket?

[Spacemom]

25. Here Ya go

[Jessica]

26. sorry - don't know what happened - i edited the original

the pic's there again.

[rbnyc]

27. I have a huge crush on him! (nt)

[bluedeminredstate]

32. Me too.

He's sexy in a non-traditional Brad Pitt kind of way which is how I like 'em!

[Kire]

30. he played a noseless guy in The Salton Sea

[DemBones DemBones]

31. Didja know that he played JoJo's boyfriend in "Mystic Pizza"?

And then played the father of the same actress (Lily something/ I'm drawing a blank here) in "House of Saints"?

And didja know he was in "JFK"?

He played one of Costner's assistants when Costner played the DA investigating people in the assassination plot.

He's been in tons of movies.

[Jessica]

The married guy in Mystic Pizza? No way.

He's everywhere!!

[DemBones DemBones]

41. No, the one who gets married -- remember it opens with

JoJo passing out at their wedding? The wedding is then cancelled. She's scared about being tied down, kids, etc. He accuses her of only wanting him for sex (which she does want, all the time!) All during the movie, they fight, because he wants to marry her and she's too skittish.

And it ends, months later, when they finally get married and have a big reception, which the rich boy crashes to make peace with Julia Roberts.

[Cadence]

42. He did a good job of being a doofus in that movie.

Did you see James Gandolfini as the shy nervous construction worker in Mr. Wonderful? That was a good doofus role as well.

[Kire]

33. Abbie Hoffman in "Steal this Movie"

[DemBones DemBones]

44. Oh, oh! Whos is the actress in the top pic?

???

[Rob H.]

48. Seriously? That's Janeane Garofalo

I've never seen "Steal This Movie," but now I probably will--I don't know how I missed it when it came out. Did it get advertised at all? (Keep in mind that I was living in Idaho when it was released, a Red state if there ever was one.)

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[Kire]

35. directed "The Velocity of Gary", one of the worst films of all times

Gary is in love with Valentino. So is Mary Carmen. Their life changes when Valentino is hit with a deadly disease and is slowly dying in their hands. They tear each other off to end up re-uniting upon their love for the same man.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120878/

[Kire]

36. his father was my drama teacher in High School

I stole the show in Marat/Sade as the "Regrettable Incident" where I chanted Satan's Prayer, attacked his character's daughter(with his permission) and got crucified. I was supposed to be doused with water, but they didn't want to ruin the floor. We both got kicked out of that private school that year.

[Kire]

37. played Orson Welles in "Ed Wood"

at the end

[Kire]

38. played Thor in "Adventures in Babysitting"

[obreaslan]

40. Also, Orson Wells in Ed Wood..

[Willy Lee]

45. What a hottie- and apparently pretty damn liberal too!

VINCENT D’Onofrio, the star of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” passed out while shooting the hit TV series yesterday morning — prompting insiders to gossip that the actor is “losing it.” “Ever since John Kerry lost the election, has lost his ” said our on-set insider. “He has been getting into fistfights with people, and when he passed out today, we all thought he was faking it. But then he insisted they call 911.”

An ambulance raced to the Queens studio, where paramedics found nothing wrong with the gifted actor, who became a star in 1987 with his searing performance as a misfit Marine in “Full Metal Jacket.”
Tensions on the “Criminal Intent” set are running high. “No one thinks Vincent will last for much longer,” the insider said.
“He is so hard to work with — a total freak. He constantly complains about the scripts and has held up production a lot.”

D’Onofrio, a big Kerry supporter, was said to be devastated over President Bush’s re-election. “When PAGE SIX wrote about ‘Law & Order’ putting up signs forbidding political discussions on set, it was funny,” our source said. “Those signs were put up because of .”

About a month before the election, D’Onofrio “insisted” on putting up anti-Bush posters and fliers, “and would attack anyone who disagreed with him,” the spy added.


http://literalbarrage.org/blog/archives/2004/11/11/vincent-donofrio-professional-flake/

[GRLMGC]

47. I hate his character in Criminal Intent

that fucker knows everything, it's annoying. D'Onofrio is a good actor, though. He's really intense, which can be overwhelming at times.