Matthew Modine
Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker. He shared the Venice Film Festival‘s Volpi Cup for Best Actor as part of the ensemble cast of Robert Altman film ''Streamers'' (1983). He went on to play lead roles in several high-profile films throughout the 1980’s, including include ''Birdy'' (1984), ''Vision Quest'' (1985), and ''Married to the Mob'' (1988). He gained further prominence for playing U.S. Marine J.T. "Joker" Davis in Stanley Kubrick's ''Full Metal Jacket'' (1987). Other notable films include ''Pacific Heights'' (1990), ''Short Cuts'' (1993), ''Cutthroat Island'' (1995), ''The Dark Knight Rises'' (2012), and ''Oppenheimer'' (2023). On television, he portrayed Dr. Don Francis in the HBO film ''And the Band Played On'' (1993), the oversexed Sullivan Groff on ''Weeds'' (2007), Ivan Turing in ''Proof'' (2015), and Dr. Martin Brenner on Netflix's ''Stranger Things'' (2016–2022).
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 received 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''. Provided by Wikipedia
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