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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.
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The Dark Knight Rises
Actor |
2012 | NOT YET RELEASED | ||
Girl in Progress
Actor |
2011 | |||
Too Big to Fail
Actor |
2011 | |||
A Cat in Paris
Voice |
2010 | NOT YET RELEASED | ||
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The Trial
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter |
2010 | |||
Frenemy
Actor, Executive Producer |
2009 | |||
Poliwood
Participant |
2009 | |||
Veer
Voice |
2009 | |||
Weeds: Season 05
Actor |
2009 | |||
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2008 | |||
Santa: The Fascist Years
Voice |
2008 | |||
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2008 | |||
The Neighbor
Actor |
2008 | |||
Weeds: Season 04
Actor |
2008 | |||
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Go Go Tales
Actor |
2007 | |||
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I Think I Thought
Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
2007 | |||
Weeds: Season 03
Actor |
2007 | |||
Kettle of Fish
Actor, Executive Producer |
2006 | |||
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2006 | |||
Into the West
Actor |
2005 | |||
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2005 | |||
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Mary
Actor |
2005 | |||
Opa!
Actor |
2005 | |||
Transporter 2
Actor |
2005 | |||
Funky Monkey
Actor |
2004 | |||
The Winning Season
Actor |
2004 | |||
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Actor |
2003 | |||
Hollywood North
Actor |
2003 | |||
Le Divorce
Actor |
2003 | |||
Redeemer
Actor |
2002 | |||
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2001 | |||
Nobody's Baby
Actor |
2001 | |||
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Participant |
2001 | |||
The Shipment
Actor |
2001 | |||
Flowers For Algernon
Actor |
2000 | |||
In the Shadows
Actor |
2000 | |||
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Very Mean Men
Actor |
2000 | |||
Any Given Sunday
Actor |
1999 | |||
One Last Score
Actor, Director |
1998 | |||
The American
Actor |
1998 | |||
The Blackout
Actor |
1997 | |||
The Maker
Actor |
1997 | |||
The Real Blonde
Actor |
1997 | |||
What The Deaf Man Heard
Actor |
1997 | |||
Bye Bye, Love
Actor |
1995 | |||
Cutthroat Island
Actor |
1995 | |||
Fluke
Voice |
1995 | |||
Jacob
Actor |
1994 | |||
The Browning Version
Actor |
1994 | |||
And the Band Played On
Actor |
1993 | |||
Equinox
Actor |
1993 | |||
Short Cuts
Actor |
1993 | |||
Wind
Actor |
1992 | |||
Memphis Belle
Actor |
1990 | |||
Pacific Heights
Actor |
1990 | |||
The Lemon Sisters
Actor |
1990 | |||
Gross Anatomy
Actor |
1989 | |||
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1988 | |||
Married to the Mob
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Saturday Night Live: Matthew Modine
TV Guest Appearance |
1988 | |||
The Gamble
Actor |
1988 | |||
Full Metal Jacket
Actor |
1987 | |||
Orphans
Actor |
1987 | |||
Vision Quest
Actor |
1985 | |||
Birdy
Actor |
1984 | |||
Mrs. Soffel
Actor |
1984 | |||
The Hotel New Hampshire
Actor |
1984 | |||
Baby It's You
Actor |
1983 | |||
Private School
Actor |
1983 | |||
Streamers
Actor |
1983 | |||
Amy and the Angel
Actor |
1982 | |||
Nature: The Panda Baby
Voice |
NOT YET RELEASED |
