Matthew Modine
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Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor, activist, and filmmaker who came to fame in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket as the United States Marine Corps Private Joker.
The title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, the high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, Drake Goodman in Pacific Heights, and Dr. Byron are among his film roles.
Ralph Wyman of Short Cuts.
Modine portrayed Dr. Byron on television.
Martin Brenner in Stranger Things, the oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds, Dr. Dr.
Don Francis of And the Band Played On and Ivan Turing in Proof. Modine has been nominated twice for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his role in And the Band Played On and What the Deaf Man Heard, and he 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.
Early life
Modine, the youngest of seven children, was born in Loma Linda, California, and the son of Dolores (née Warner), a bookkeeper), and Mark Alexander Modine, who operated drive-in theaters. He is the uncle of stage actress Nola Modine Fairbanks and the great-grandson of prospector and pioneer Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks. Modine lived in Utah for many years, moving every year or two. The drive-in theaters his father ran were being ripped down because the land beneath them was worth more than the theaters. Matthew and his family returned to Imperial Beach, California, where he attended and graduated from Mar Vista High School in 1977.
Personal life
In 1980, Modine married Caridad Rivera, a makeup and wardrobe stylist. They have two children, Boman, an assistant director of film, and actress, singer, and ballet dancer Ruby Modine.
Career
Modine's first film appearance appeared in John Sayles' film Baby It's You (1983). He co-starred in the sex comedy Private School with Phoebe Cates and Betsy Russell that year. His appearances captured director Harold Becker's attention, who portrayed him in Vision Quest (1985), based on Terry Davis' book.
Modine's film version of David Rabe's "Play Streamers" brought the director Robert Altman to international prominence. Modine appeared in Mrs. Soffel and appeared with Nicolas Cage in Alan Parker's Birdy, and was given Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. The actor also turned down the role of LT Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in Top Gun (the role that Tom Cruise made famous) because the film's pro-military stance went against his political stance, which went against his political convictions.
Modine is best known for his role as Private/Sergeant J.T. Davis, the central figure of Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket (1987), "Joker" Davis, narrator. Modine was the threatening young criminal in Alan Pakula's film adaptation of Lyle Kessler's stageplay Orphanages. In Jonathan Demme's screwball comedy Married to Michelle Pfeiffer, Modine played the goofy, earnest FBI agent Mike Downey. In 1990, he was in charge of Memphis Belle, a fictionalized recreation of the famous B-17 Flying Fortress.
In 1995, he appeared alongside Geena Davis in the romantic action-adventure film Cutthroat Island. Modine's If... Dog... Rabbit, his debut at the Sundance Film Festival, came after the success of three short films debuting at the Sundance Film Festival: When I Was a Boy (co-directed with Todd Field), Smoking written by David Sedaris, and Ecce Pirate written by Modine.
At the Tribeca Film Festival, his dark comedy I Think I Thought premiered. The film tells the tale of a thinker (Modine), who eventually appears in Thinkers Anonymous.
To Kill an American, Cowboy, and The Love Film are two other short films. He completed Jesus Was a Commie in 2011, an avant-garde-dialectical dialogue about the world and the most significant issues of modern life. Modine co-directed the short film with Terence Ziegler, the editor of I Think I Thought. Modine's short films have starred around the world.
He appeared in the West Wing's episode "The Long Goodbye" in 2003. He portrayed Marco, who attended high school with C.J. Cregg (Allison Janney) and who helped her cope with her father's narcotic decline as a result of Alzheimer's disease. Modine has accepted the role because he is a longtime Janney friend. (The two actors appeared together in a stage adaptation of Stuart Ross' "Break Up" (1994). In the CBS miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil, Fritz Gerlich appeared in Fritz Gerlich in the same year.
Modine debuted in Funky Monkey as an ex-football star and spy, assassinated Flick (Seth Adkins), a villainous Flick (Taylor Negron). The film was critical but yet it has gained cult status.
Mary Abel Ferrara's 2005 was awarded the Venice Film Festival's Special Jury Prize. Modine plays a director recounting Mary Magdalene's tale (Juliette Binoche). He appeared in the Law & Order episode "Rage" as a serial killer of young girls the previous year.
Modine appeared in The Trial in 2010, which was granted the Parents Television Council's Seal of ApprovalTM. The PTC said, "The Trial" includes the best elements of courtroom drama, murder mystery, and a personal tale. 'The Trial' is a moving film that shows the strength of healing and hope." Modine played "Sullivan Groff," a coerce City developer, during Season 3 on Weeds. Groff has secrets with Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins). Modine appeared in HBO's Too Big to Fail, a film about the Wall Street financial crisis, also in 2010. John Thain, the former Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, appears in this film.
Modine produced two independent films, Family Weekend and Girl in Progress in 2011, opposite Eva Mendes. He appeared in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises as Deputy Commissioner Peter Foley, a Gotham City police officer and peer to Gary Oldman's Commissioner James Gordon in 2012.
Modine appeared in Ralph Bakshi's animated film Last Days of Coney Island in February 2013, after finding out about the film's Kickstarter campaign online. In the horror mystery film Altar, he co-starred Olivia Williams, Richard Dillane, and Steve Oram in 2014.
Modine appeared in the Netflix original series Stranger Things in 2016. He and his Stranger Things co-star in a Drama Series were voted Best Performance by an Ensemble in 2017. Matthew Modine appeared in the music video for "1-800-273-8255," a song by American hip hop artist Logic's Matthew Modine. Modine was a member of Speed Killers in November 2018, as well as many new ones such as Foster Boy, Miss Virginia, and The Martini Shot were among others.
Modine appeared in Arthur Miller's Finishing the Picture at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, Miller's Resurrection Blues at London's Old Vic, and in a stage version of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (as Atticus Finch) at Hartford's Hartford Stage. To Kill a Mockingbird was the most profitable performance in the theatre's 45-year history. In 2010, he appeared in the Circle of The Miracle Worker's 50th anniversary Broadway revival.
Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas at Los Angeles' Geffen Theatre in fall 2013. Modine appeared in a self-parodying film.