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Matthew Modine

Born
1959-03-22
Birthplace
Loma Linda,
California
USA
Born
1959-03-22
Birthplace
Loma Linda, California
USA
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 Stream......

Profile of Matthew Modine

Matthew Modine

Born
1959-03-22
Birthplace
Loma Linda, California
USA
Born
1959-03-22
Birthplace
Loma Linda, California
USA
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.

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit poster

1999

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The Simpsons poster

1989

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Stranger Things poster

2016

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Late Night with Seth Meyers poster

2014

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The West Wing poster

1999

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Saturday Night Live poster

1975

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Weeds poster

2005

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LIVE with Kelly and Mark poster

1988

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Oppenheimer poster

2023

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Protector poster

2026

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The Dark Knight Rises poster

2012

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The Tony Danza Show poster

2004

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Full Metal Jacket poster

1987

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Notting Hill poster

1999

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado poster

2018

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Transporter 2 poster

2005

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Zero Day poster

2025

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The Better Sister poster

2025

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Wrong Turn poster

2021

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Into the West poster

2005

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100 Years of Warner Bros. poster

2023

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Retribution poster

2023

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Hitler: The Rise of Evil poster

2003

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So Graham Norton poster

1998

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Lo + plus poster

1995

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47 Meters Down poster

2017

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Jobs poster

2013

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Any Given Sunday poster

1999

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Short Cuts poster

1993

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Cutthroat Island poster

1995

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Birdy poster

1984

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Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story poster

2001

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Hallmark Hall of Fame poster

1951

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Godzilla x Kong: Supernova poster

2027

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Memphis Belle poster

1990

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Pacific Heights poster

1990

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Army of One poster

2016

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Married to the Mob poster

1988

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Fluke poster

1995

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Too Big to Fail poster

2011

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Backtrace poster

2018

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How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents poster

2016

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Breaking News in Yuba County poster

2021

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Private School poster

1983

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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures poster

2001

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The Confirmation poster

2016

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Le Divorce poster

2003

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Family Weekend poster

2013

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Bamboozled poster

2000

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Speed Kills poster

2018

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Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal poster

2021

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Vision Quest poster

1985

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Girl in Progress poster

2012

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The Hippopotamus poster

2017

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Altar poster

2014

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And the Band Played On poster

1993

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Filmworker poster

2018

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Overnight poster

2003

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The Blackout poster

1997

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The Browning Version poster

1994

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Have Dreams, Will Travel poster

2007

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Gross Anatomy poster

1989

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Mrs. Soffel poster

1984

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Proof poster

2015

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CAT. 8 poster

2013

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The Bedford Diaries poster

2006

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The Hotel New Hampshire poster

1984

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Bye Bye Love poster

1995

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The Real Blonde poster

1998

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Jacob poster

1994

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Go Go Tales poster

2008

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The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards poster

2015

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Wind poster

1992

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Mary poster

2005

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Baby It's You poster

1983

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The Trial poster

2010

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Hard Miles poster

2024

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Unity poster

2015

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Streamers poster

1983

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Funky Monkey poster

2004

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Foster Boy poster

2019

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Nobody's Baby poster

2001

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The Neighbor poster

2007

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Little Fish, Strange Pond poster

2009

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Flowers for Algernon poster

2000

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Garden of Eden poster

2008

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The Brainwashing of My Dad poster

2015

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What the Deaf Man Heard poster

1997

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In the Shadows poster

2001

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The Maker poster

1997

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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman poster

1998

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Sex and Lies in Sin City poster

2009

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Hollywood North poster

2004

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Equinox poster

1992

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American Cinema poster

1994

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Revengeance poster

2016

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My Love Affair with Marriage poster

2023

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Kettle of Fish poster

2006

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Orphans poster

1987

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Kubrick Remembered poster

2014

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Opa! poster

2005

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Guardians of Life poster

2020

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Miss Virginia poster

2019

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Chance poster

2020

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If... Dog... Rabbit poster

1999

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The Lemon Sisters poster

1989

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Mulberry St. poster

2010

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Last Days of Coney Island poster

2015

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The American poster

1998

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The Shipment poster

2001

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Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations poster

2023

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Santa: The Fascist Years poster

2008

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Very Mean Men poster

2000

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The Martini Shot poster

2023

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Downwind poster

2023

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The Gamble poster

1988

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Redeemer poster

2002

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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth poster

2019

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PoliWood poster

2009

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Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country poster

1993

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Super Sex poster

2016

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Amy and the Angel poster

1982

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Guests poster

2014

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The Winning Season poster

2004

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Merry Xmas poster

2015

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The Tree poster

1993

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Ecce Pirate poster

1997

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Odyssey in Rome poster

2005

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Adventures in Plymptoons! poster

2011

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How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire poster

2014

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The Fuse poster

2022

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Surviving the Dust Bowl poster

1998

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When I Was a Boy poster

1993

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Cowboy poster

2008

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Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure poster

2026

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Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life poster

TBD

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A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket poster

TBD

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Red Ink poster

2019

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I Am What You Imagine poster

2023

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Jesus Was a Commie poster

2011

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Against the Current poster

2021

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The Splendid Thing poster

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I Think I Thought poster

2008

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I Hope This Helps! poster

2024

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World Birth Day poster

2002

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Keepers of the Wild poster

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The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project poster

2011

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