Matthew Modine
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| Matthew Modine | |
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 Modine at the premiere of Savage Grace, April 2008 |
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| Born | Matthew Avery Modine March 22, 1959 Loma Linda, California, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Caridad Rivera (October 31, 1980 - present; 2 children) |
Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor, perhaps most famous for playing Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film, Full Metal Jacket.
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His first film role was in John Sayles' Baby It's You. His performance caught the eye of director Harold Becker, who cast him in Vision Quest (Crazy for You) based on the novel by Terry Davis. It was the director Robert Altman that propelled Modine into international stardom with his film adaptation of David Rabe's play Streamers. Modine and his fellow castmates won an unprecedented Best Actor prize from the Venice Film Festival for this tragic story of young American soldiers about to be shipped to Vietnam. Modine played Mel Gibson's brother in Mrs. Soffel and starred with Nicolas Cage in Alan Parker's Birdy. The film was awarded a prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Modine might be best known for his role as "Private Joker," the main character of Stanley Kubrick's 1987 war movie Full Metal Jacket. Afterward, he played the dangerous young criminal, Treat, in Alan Pakula's film version of the hugely successful play Orphans by writer Lyle Kessler and the goofy, earnest FBI agent Mike Downey in Jonathan Demme's screwball comedy Married to the Mob opposite Michelle Pfeiffer. Modine was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performances in And the Band Played On and What the Deaf Man Heard.
In 1995, he worked opposite Geena Davis in Cutthroat Island. He made his feature directorial debut with If... Dog... Rabbit. This came after the success of three short films that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival: When I was a Boy (co-directed with Todd Field) Smoking written by David Sedaris, and Ecce Pirate.
His most recent films include The Go Go Tales, "Have Dreams, Will Travel", Opa!, and Mary, which won a prize at the Venice Film Festival.
In 2003, he guest starred on in the episode The Long Goodbye (The West Wing) as a foil to C.J. Cregg. He portrays the character Marco, who went to high school with Cregg, and who helps her start to deal with her father's steady decline into Alzheimer's.
Modine plays the Majestic City developer throughout Season 3 on Weeds (television) named Sullivan Groff, who besides being incredibly crooked and creepy, has affairs with Nancy Botwin played by Mary-Louise Parker and Celia Hodes played by Elizabeth Perkins.
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Full Metal Jacket Diary is a critically acclaimed book written by Modine. The book is a day-to-day account of his experience while working on [[Full Metal Jacket. In addition to the diary, the book is filled with photos Modine shot using a Rolleiflex camera.
BICYCLE FOR A DAY (BFAD) is an environmental initiative Modine created with Charles Finch. Modine directed the BFAD film for Young Global Leaders and it was presented to an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (2006). BFAD goal is to raise awareness of the need to reduce carbon emissions and to demonstrate many simple things that each of can do everyday to accomplish a cleaner world.
CARD CARRYING LIBERAL (CCL) is a foundation that Modine started with the stated aim of restoring the meaning of the word "liberal". In recent times, the word liberal has been forced into disrepute because of a dishonest attempt to place it only in a political context. The purpose of Card Carrying Liberal is to protect the ideals of liberalism. CCL is not a political entity. It's objective is to support the liberties, freedoms and human rights that liberal societies helped to establish.
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