Biography: This young actor pulled a De Niro to perform the role of a boot-camp underachiever turned fullblown psycho in Kubrick's Vietnam movie Full Metal Jacket (1987), adding many pounds to his normally slender frame. Because he was a complete unknown at the time, audiences couldn't appreciate the extent of his physical transformation but were impressed by his uncanny, terrifying performance. Since returning to his normal dimensions, D'Onofrio hasn't snagged a role as memorable, but has been reasonably good in Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Mystic Pizza (1988), and Dying Young (1991). In 1991 he played an Argentinian pimp with peculiar ideas about propriety in Leonard Schrader's peculiar Naked Tango Recent credits include Fires Within (1991, with his then-wife Greta Scacchi), The Player (1992), Household Saints (1993), Being Human and Ed Wood (both 1994).
| Average career score: | 52 |
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| Highest Metascore: | |
| Lowest Metascore: |
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Positive: 6 out of 23
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Mixed: 10 out of 23
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Negative: 7 out of 23
- By date
- By user score
| Title: | Year: | Credit: | User score: |
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| Escape Plan | Sep 13, 2013 | Lester Clark / Lester Clark | tbd |
| Sinister | Oct 12, 2012 | Professor Jonas | 7.2 |
| Don't Go in the Woods | Jan 13, 2012 | Director / Writer | 4.2 |
| Kill the Irishman | Mar 11, 2011 | John Nardi | 7.2 |
| Brooklyn's Finest | Mar 5, 2010 | Carlo | 5.5 |
| The Break-Up | Jun 2, 2006 | Dennis Grobowski | 5.9 |
| Thumbsucker | Sep 16, 2005 | Mike Cobb | 7.6 |
| Overnight | Nov 10, 2004 | Himself | 8.9 |
| The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys | Jun 14, 2002 | Father Casey | 8.9 |
| The Salton Sea | Apr 26, 2002 | Pooh-Bear | 7.2 |
| Chelsea Walls | Apr 19, 2002 | Frank | 6.4 |
| Impostor | Jan 4, 2002 | Hathaway | 5.8 |
| Happy Accidents | Aug 24, 2001 | Sam Deed | 8.7 |
| The Cell | Aug 18, 2000 | Carl Stargher | 6.6 |
| Steal This Movie | Aug 18, 2000 | Executive Producer / Abbie Hoffman | 7.9 |
| Claire Dolan | Feb 25, 2000 | Elton Garrett | 8.5 |
| The Thirteenth Floor | May 28, 1999 | Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton | 8.4 |
| The Newton Boys | Mar 27, 1998 | Dock Newton | 8.0 |
| Men in Black | Jul 2, 1997 | Edgar | 7.6 |
| Feeling Minnesota | Sep 13, 1996 | Sam Clayton | 5.0 |
| Ed Wood | Sep 28, 1994 | Orson Welles | 8.6 |
| The Player | Apr 3, 1992 | David Kahane | 8.9 |
| Mystic Pizza | Oct 14, 1988 | Bill | 7.5 |
| Full Metal Jacket | Jun 26, 1987 | Pvt. Pyle | 8.8 |
