Matthew Modine

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
March 22, 1959 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Loma Linda, California, USA
Popular Genres
Drama Comedy Thriller
Career Span
– 2027

Matthew Modine

11 wins
592 nominations
7 Oscars
113 credits

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.

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Personal Info

Born
Mar 22, 1959
From
Loma Linda, California, USA
Known For
Acting
Career
– 2027

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11
Wins
592
Nominations
7
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Oppenheimer
The Dark Knight Rises
Notting Hill
Wrong Turn
Full Metal Jacket
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Retribution
Transporter 2
Any Given Sunday
Married to the Mob

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