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Matthew Modine

  • Actor
  • Producer
  • Director
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Matthew Modine at an event for Stranger Things (2016)
Hungry for love and acceptance, young Zelma feels incomplete. Hounded by three singing Mythology Sirens, she sets out on a 23-year quest for perfect love and lasting marriage. She's unaware, however, that her own Biology is a powerful force to be reckoned with.
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The youngest of seven, Matthew was born in Loma Linda, Ca, to Dolores (Warner), a bookkeeper, and Mark Alexander Modine, a drive-in theater manager. After graduating high school in Imperial Beach, Ca. Modine moved to NYC (1979). Matthew studied with Stella Adler at her Conservatory of Acting. While still a student of hers, he began landing starring roles in film, and later theatre and television. Matthew has worked with many of the most highly regarded directors including, Christopher Nolan, Oliver Stone, Sir Alan Parker, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Abel Ferrara, Alan J. Pakula, John Schlesinger, Tony Richardson, Robert Falls, Sir Peter Hall, Spike Lee, Tom DiCillo, Mike Figgis, Jonathan Demme and John Sayles. A partial list of his films include: The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Birdy (1984), Vision Quest (1985), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Married to the Mob (1988), Gross Anatomy (1989), Memphis Belle (1990), Pacific Heights (1990), Short Cuts (1993), The Browning Version (1994) and Any Given Sunday (1999).

Matthew is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award, Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup and Golden Lion. Mary (2005), directed by Abel Ferrara, co-starring Juliette Binoche and Forest Whitaker, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Birdy won the Cannes Film Festival Gran Prix. Equinox (1992), directed by Alan Rudolph, received four Independent Spirit Award nominations including Best Actor and Best Film. For his work in television, Matthew was part of the Emmy winning Showtime series Weeds (2005). He has received Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for the M.O.W. What the Deaf Man Heard (1997) and HBO's Emmy winning And the Band Played On (1993). Modine has directed several distinguished short films: When I Was a Boy (1993), Smoking (1994), Ecce Pirate (1997), I Think I Thought (2008) and To Kill an American (2008).
BornMarch 22, 1959
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BornMarch 22, 1959
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  • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
    • 35 wins & 14 nominations total

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Matthew Modine and Millie Bobby Brown in Stranger Things (2016)
Matthew Modine in Birdy (1984)
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Matthew Modine in Very Mean Men (2000)
Matthew Modine and Martin Landau in Very Mean Men (2000)
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Matthew Modine and Tony Vitale in Very Mean Men (2000)
Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Matthew Modine, and Arliss Howard in Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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Phoebe Cates and Matthew Modine in Private School (1983)
Matthew Modine, Jonathan Prince, and Michael Zorek in Private School (1983)

Known for:

Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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  • 1987
Geena Davis and Matthew Modine in Cutthroat Island (1995)
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  • 1995
Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Matthew Modine, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
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  • 2012
Mandy Moore and Claire Holt in 47 Meters Down (2017)
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  • 2017

Credits

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  • Oppenheimer
    • Vannevar Bush
    • Post-production
    • 2023
  • Retribution
    • Post-production
    • 2023
  • The Martini Shot
    • Steve
    • Completed
    • 2023
  • Hard Miles
    • Greg Townsend
    • Post-production
  • Winona Ryder, Tom Wlaschiha, David Harbour, Brett Gelman, Maya Hawke, Jamie Campbell Bower, Natalia Dyer, Joseph Quinn, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, Priah Ferguson, and Eduardo Franco in Stranger Things (2016)
    Stranger Things
    • Dr. Martin Brenner
    • TV Series
    • 2016–2022
  • Matthew Modine, Stephen Lang, Dagmara Dominczyk, Michele Pawk, Cameron Monaghan, Erica Schroeder, and Emma Kenney in My Love Affair with Marriage (2022)
    My Love Affair with Marriage
    • Bo (voice)
    • 2022
  • Matthew Modine in Operation Varsity Blues (2021)
    Operation Varsity Blues
    • Rick Singer
    • 2021
  • Against the Current (2021)
    Against the Current
    • Narrator (voice)
    • 2021
  • Ellen Barkin, Juliette Lewis, Matthew Modine, Clifton Collins Jr., Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Regina Hall, Jimmi Simpson, Wanda Sykes, Christopher Lowell, and Awkwafina in Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)
    Breaking News in Yuba County
    • Karl Buttons
    • 2021
  • Wrong Turn (2021)
    Wrong Turn
    • Scott Shaw
    • 2021
  • Chance (2020)
    Chance
    • Mike
    • 2020
  • Joaquin Phoenix in Guardians of Life (2020)
    Guardians of Life
    • Surgeon
    • Short
    • 2020
  • Priyanka Chopra Jonas, The Jonas Brothers, and Nick Jonas in Jonas Brothers: What A Man Gotta Do (2020)
    Jonas Brothers: What A Man Gotta Do
    • Matthew Modine
    • Music Video
    • 2020
  • Surveillance
    • The Man in the Red Tie
    • TV Movie
    • 2019
  • Miss Virginia (2019)
    Miss Virginia
    • Congressman Cliff Williams
    • 2019
  • Matthew Modine, Louis Gossett Jr., Julie Benz, and Shane Paul McGhie in Foster Boy (2019)
    Foster Boy
    • Michael Trainer
    • 2019
  • Josefin Asplund in Sanctuary (2019)
    Sanctuary
    • Dr. Fisher
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Modine, Christopher McDonald, Colin Egglesfield, Swen Temmel, and Sergio Rizzuto in Backtrace (2018)
    Backtrace
    • Donovan MacDonald
    • 2018
  • John Travolta in Speed Kills (2018)
    Speed Kills
    • George Bush
    • 2018

Producer

  • Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations (2023)
    Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
    • executive producer
    • 2023
  • Downwind (2023)
    Downwind
    • producer
    • 2023
  • Matthew Modine, Stephen Lang, Dagmara Dominczyk, Michele Pawk, Cameron Monaghan, Erica Schroeder, and Emma Kenney in My Love Affair with Marriage (2022)
    My Love Affair with Marriage
    • executive producer
    • 2022
  • Cool for You (2022)
    Cool for You
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2022
  • It's the bigness of the office (2018)
    Trump Bites
    • executive producer
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Keepers of the Wild (2019)
    Keepers of the Wild
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Heaven on Earth
    • producer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Stars in Shorts: No Ordinary Love (2016)
    Stars in Shorts: No Ordinary Love
    • producer
    • 2016
  • Revengeance (2016)
    Revengeance
    • executive producer
    • 2016
  • Super Sex (2016)
    Super Sex
    • producer
    • Short
    • 2016
  • Last Days of Coney Island (2015)
    Last Days of Coney Island
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2015
  • Poster illustration by Bill Plympton
    The Brainwashing of My Dad
    • producer
    • 2015
  • Poster designed by Celsius Brand Team
    Merry Xmas
    • producer
    • Short
    • 2015
  • Hyperion (2014)
    Hyperion
    • associate producer
    • Short
    • 2014
  • Cheatin' (2013)
    Cheatin'
    • executive producer
    • 2013

Director

  • The Rocking Horsemen
    • Director
    • In Development
  • Stars in Shorts: No Ordinary Love (2016)
    Stars in Shorts: No Ordinary Love
    • Director
    • 2016
  • Super Sex (2016)
    Super Sex
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2016
  • As Tears Go By
    • Director
    • Video
    • 2012
  • Plastic Jesus
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Somebody
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2012
  • The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2011
  • Jesus Was a Commie One Sheet
    Jesus Was a Commie
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2011
  • Cowboy (2008)
    Cowboy
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2008
  • To Kill an American (2008)
    To Kill an American
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2008
  • I Think I Thought (2008)
    I Think I Thought
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2008
  • If... Dog... Rabbit (1999)
    If... Dog... Rabbit
    • Director (as Matthew Avery Modine)
    • 1999
  • Richard Leaf in Ecce Pirate (1997)
    Ecce Pirate
    • Director
    • Short
    • 1997
  • Philip Forman in Smoking (1994)
    Smoking
    • Director
    • Short
    • 1994
  • Philip Forman in When I Was a Boy (1993)
    When I Was a Boy
    • Director
    • Short
    • 1993
  • Roy Orbison: A Love So Beautiful (1990)
    Roy Orbison: A Love So Beautiful
    • Director
    • Music Video
    • 1990
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  • Alternative name
    • Matthew Avery Modine
  • Height
    • 6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
  • Born
    • March 22, 1959
    • Loma Linda, California, USA
  • Spouse
    • Caridad ModineOctober 31, 1980 - present (2 children)
  • Children
      Boman Modine
  • Parents
      Mark Alexander Modine
  • Relatives
      Mark Modine(Sibling)
  • Other works
    Performing in Arthur Miller's play, "Finishing The Picture" at Chicago's Goodman Theater, alongside cast members Stacy Keach, Linda Lavin, Scott Glenn, Frances Fisher, Harris Yulin, Stephen Lang, and Heather Prete.
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    Is a horticulturist and a carpenter.
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    Vision Quest (1985) was maybe the hardest film I've ever done, because I never wrestled before in my life. I was a struggling actor that wasn't really fast. I was in drama school smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee and trying to like every young actor at a drama school, trying to be James Dean and be posing. So when I met Harold Becker, he said, "Can you do five push-ups?" I was pretty skinny, so I had to get in shape to do Vision Quest, and that was really, really, really hard and a real pleasure to work with that girl Linda Fiorentino. She's a tough New Jersey broad, very much like her role in the film. It was just fun and a very, very, very hard film to make.
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      Towering height and slender frame

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