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Matthew Avery Modine

Current Location:: New York, New York, United States
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Birthplace: Loma Linda, San Bernardino County, California, United States
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Son of Mark Alexander Modine and Dolores Modine
Husband of Private User
Father of Private and Private
Brother of Michael Andrew Modine; Private User; Private User and Private User

Occupation: Actor, director, student
Managed by: Della Dale Smith-Pistelli
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About Matthew Modine

Matthew Modine 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, 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. He has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award and once for a Primetime Emmy Award, and has won a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Special Golden Globe.

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 actor Nola Modine Fairbanks, and the great-grandson of the prospector and pioneer Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks. (Wikipedia)

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Matthew Modine's Timeline

1959
March 22, 1959
Loma Linda, San Bernardino County, California, United States