Matthew Modine
Acting
Born March 22, 1959 · 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…
Known For · 40 titles
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Simpsons
Stranger Things
The West Wing
Saturday Night Live
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Oppenheimer
Weeds
The Dark Knight Rises
American Playhouse
Protector
The Tony Danza Show
Full Metal Jacket
The Better Sister
So Graham Norton
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Zero Day
Lo + plus
Notting Hill
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Transporter 2
Retribution
Wrong Turn
Into the West
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Any Given Sunday
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
47 Meters Down
American Cinema
Cutthroat Island
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Pacific Heights
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Bedford Diaries
Short Cuts
Married to the Mob
Private School
Proof
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