Matthew Modine

Also Known As: Мэттью Модайн, 매튜 모딘, Мэтью Модайн, マシュー・モディーン, 马修·莫迪恩, متیو مودین

Biography: Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker. He shared the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actor as part of the ensemble cast of Robert Altman's film Streamers (1983). He went on to play lead roles in several high-profile films throughout the 1980s, including Birdy (1984), Vision Quest (1985), and Married to the Mob (1988). He gained further prominence for playing U.S. Marine James T. "Joker" Davis in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987).  Other notable films include Pacific Heights (1990), Short Cuts (1993), Cutthroat Island (1995), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Oppenheimer (2023). On television, he portrayed Dr. Don Francis in the HBO film And the Band Played On (1993), Sullivan Groff on Weeds (2007), Ivan Turing in Proof (2015), and Dr. Martin Brenner on Netflix's Stranger Things (2016–2022). Modine has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his work in And the Band Played On and What the Deaf Man Heard and received a special Golden Globe for him and the rest of the ensemble in Short Cuts. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for And the Band Played On. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Modine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Loma Linda, California, USA

Adult: No

Birthday: March 22, 1959

Age: 66 years old

Gender: Male

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Full Metal Jacket
Cutthroat Island
Short Cuts
Married to the Mob
Jacob
And the Band Played On
Pacific Heights
Amy and the Angel
Fluke
Vision Quest
Birdy
Bye Bye Love
Sex and Lies in Sin City
Garden of Eden
Orphans
Mrs. Soffel
The Blackout
Any Given Sunday
Transporter 2
Memphis Belle
In the Shadows
Flowers for Algernon
Wind
The Real Blonde
Have Dreams, Will Travel
Funky Monkey
Kettle of Fish
Mary
Too Big to Fail
The Neighbor
Gross Anatomy
The Dark Knight Rises
Streamers
The Trial
Nobody's Baby
Private School
The Browning Version
Little Fish, Strange Pond
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
Go Go Tales
Girl in Progress
Hollywood North
The Maker
What the Deaf Man Heard
Opa!
The Winning Season
The Shipment
Retribution
Equinox
Jobs
Family Weekend
Cowboy
Redeemer
If... Dog... Rabbit
The Martini Shot
Mulberry St.
Baby It's You
Hard Miles
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
The Gamble
Against the Current
Oppenheimer
Adventures in Plymptoons!
Altar
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Odyssey in Rome
Unity
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Guests
The Confirmation
47 Meters Down
The Brainwashing of My Dad
The Hippopotamus
Jesus Was a Commie
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Bamboozled
I Think I Thought
Overnight
Very Mean Men
Santa: The Fascist Years
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
The American
Backtrace
Mon voisin du dessus
Speed Kills
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Filmworker
My Love Affair with Marriage
Notting Hill
Miss Virginia
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Army of One
Wrong Turn
Kubrick Remembered
Merry Xmas
Guardians of Life
Chance
The Tree
Le Divorce
Foster Boy
Revengeance
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
American Cinema
Breaking News in Yuba County
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
The Hotel New Hampshire
The Lemon Sisters
PoliWood
Ecce Pirate
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Protector