Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor,
activist and filmmaker, who rose to prominence through his role as
United States Marine Corps Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket. His
other film roles include the title character in Birdy, the high school
wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, Joe Slovak in Gross Anatomy,
Drake Goodman in Pacific Heights and Dr. Ralph Wyman in Short Cuts. On
television, Modine portrayed Dr. Martin Brenner in Stranger Things,
the oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds, Dr. Don Francis in And the Band
Played On and Ivan Turing in Proof.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 won 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.Modine, the youngest of seven children, was
born in Loma Linda, California, the son of Dolores (née Warner), a
bookkeeper, and Mark Alexander Modine, who managed drive-in theaters.
He is the nephew of the stage actress Nola Modine Fairbanks, and the
great-grandson of the prospector and pioneer Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks.
Modine lived in Utah for several years, moving every year or two. The
drive-in theaters his father managed were being torn down because the
land beneath them exceeded the value of the theaters. The Modine
family returned to Imperial Beach, California where Matthew attended
and graduated from Mar Vista High School in 1977.
activist and filmmaker, who rose to prominence through his role as
United States Marine Corps Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket. His
other film roles include the title character in Birdy, the high school
wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, Joe Slovak in Gross Anatomy,
Drake Goodman in Pacific Heights and Dr. Ralph Wyman in Short Cuts. On
television, Modine portrayed Dr. Martin Brenner in Stranger Things,
the oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds, Dr. Don Francis in And the Band
Played On and Ivan Turing in Proof.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 won 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.Modine, the youngest of seven children, was
born in Loma Linda, California, the son of Dolores (née Warner), a
bookkeeper, and Mark Alexander Modine, who managed drive-in theaters.
He is the nephew of the stage actress Nola Modine Fairbanks, and the
great-grandson of the prospector and pioneer Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks.
Modine lived in Utah for several years, moving every year or two. The
drive-in theaters his father managed were being torn down because the
land beneath them exceeded the value of the theaters. The Modine
family returned to Imperial Beach, California where Matthew attended
and graduated from Mar Vista High School in 1977.
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