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Matthew Modine

Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine
Born: Mar 22, 1959 in Loma Linda, California
Occupation: Actor, Director, Writer,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Full Metal Jacket, Streamers, Short Cuts
First Major Screen Credit: Private School (1983)
33 Videos for Matthew Modine
Opa! (2005) The Blackout (1997) Pacific Heights (1990)
Transporter 2 (2005) The Maker (1997) The Lemon Sisters (1990)
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) The Real Blonde (1997) Married to the Mob (1988)
Hollywood North (2003) Bye Bye, Love (1995) The Gamble (1988)
Le Divorce (2003) Cutthroat Island (1995) Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001) Fluke (1995) Orphans (1987)
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001) And the Band Played On (1993) Vision Quest (1985)
Nobody's Baby (2001) Equinox (1993) Birdy (1984)
The Shipment (2001) Short Cuts (1993) Mrs. Soffel (1984)
In the Shadows (2000) Wind (1992) The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Any Given Sunday (1999) Memphis Belle (1990) Private School (1983)
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Biography:

Matthew Modine probably developed his love of performing through multiple viewings of films exhibited in the many Utah drive-in theaters managed by his father. His family moved a lot, so his adaptability as an actor may have grown out of learning to adapt as a child, as well. After dropping out of college and working a variety of odd jobs, Modine moved to New York, where he studied acting with Stella Adler and eventually began appearing in TV commercials and soap operas.

He made his screen debut in 1983 in the film comedy Baby It's You, and won the {~Venice Film Festival}'s Best Actor award that year for his work in Robert Altman's Streamers. Refusing to trade on his freshly scrubbed, all-American good looks, Modinemade a point of treating each film role as a challenge and a chance to grow.

How many other pretty-boy Brat Packers would have been willing to play a disturbed Vietnam vet who's thinks he's a bird in 1984's Birdy? His other film roles included dual characters in The Hotel New Hampshire (1984); Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987); love-struck FBI agent Mike Downey in Married to the Mob (1988); swashbuckler William Shaw in Cutthroat Island (1995); and the title role in the made-for-cable Biblical spectacle Jacob (1994).

Modine was nominated for an Emmy for his performance as aloof AIDS researcher Don Francis in the 1993 TV movie And the Band Played On, and continued to accept occasional stage roles in between his film and TV projects. He made his screen directorial debut in 1994 with a short subject entitled Smoking.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.