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Matthew Modine
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American actor and filmmaker (born 1959)
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Matthew Modine is an American actor, screenwriter, and television actor who began his professional career in 1982. Born on March 22, 1959, in Loma Linda, California, he holds United States citizenship and resides in New York City. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and has received the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Modine attended Brigham Young University and speaks English as his native language. He has two children, including Ruby Modine. His written works include *Full Metal Jacket Diary*, *Memphis Belle*, *Jobs*, *The brainwashing of my dad*, and *Newyorkseptembereleventwothousandone*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Newyorkseptembereleventwothousandone
- The brainwashing of my dad
- Jobs
- Memphis Belle
- Full Metal Jacket Diary
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Film & TV
Loma Linda, California, USA
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…
Known for
- Godzilla x Kong: Supernova2027
- Protector — Colonel Joseph Lavelle2026
- Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure — Self - Narrator2026
- Zero Day — Richard Dreyer2025
- The Better Sister — Bill Braddock2025
- Hard Miles — Greg Townsend2024
- Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations — Narrator (voice)2023
- Retribution — Anders Muller2023
- The Martini Shot — Steve2023
- Oppenheimer — Vannevar Bush2023
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Key facts
- Born
- Matthew Avery Modine , ( 1959-03-22 ) March 22, 1959 (age 67) , Loma Linda, California , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actor director producer screenwriter
- Years active
- 1982–present
- Spouse
- Caridad Rivera ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 )
- Children
- 2, including Ruby Modine
- Website
- matthewmodine .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Matthew
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Loma Linda
- Child
- Ruby Modine
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Official website
- www.matthewmodine.com
- Image
- Matthew Modine at the 2009 premiere of PoliWood-mod.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- New York City
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- Commons category
- Matthew Modine
- date of birth
- 1959-03-22
- start of work period
- 1982-00-00
- different from
- Yuri Modin
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Matthew Avery Modine
- member of
- SAG-AFTRA
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Encyclopedic overview
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 (2016–2017; 2022).
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