Matthew Modine
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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. Modine woulds spend the next few decades appearing in a number of interesting projects, like Funky Monkey, Transporter 2, and The Dark Knight Rises.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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11% | Breaking News in Yuba County |
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— | 2021 |
No Score Yet | My Love Affair with Marriage |
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— | 2021 |
88% | Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal |
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— | 2021 |
63% | Wrong Turn |
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— | 2021 |
80% | Foster Boy |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Chance |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Guardians of Life |
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— | 2020 |
50% | Miss Virginia |
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— | 2019 |
9% | Backtrace |
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— | 2018 |
0% | Speed Kills |
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— | 2018 |
33% | An Actor Prepares |
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— | 2018 |
63% | Sicario: Day of the Soldado |
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— | 2018 |
95% | Filmworker |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Retracer |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards |
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— | 2017 |
52% | 47 Meters Down |
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$44.4M | 2017 |
57% | The Hippopotamus |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Stars In Shorts: No Ordinary Love |
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— | 2016 |
25% | Army of One |
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— | 2016 |
58% | The Brainwashing of My Dad |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Altar |
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— | 2014 |
93% | Wrinkles |
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— | 2014 |
28% | Jobs |
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$16.2M | 2013 |
36% | Family Weekend |
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— | 2013 |
87% | The Dark Knight Rises |
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$448.2M | 2012 |
33% | Girl In Progress |
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$2.6M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Full Metal Joker |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Veer |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Flying House |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Jesus Was A Commie |
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— | 2011 |
77% | Too Big to Fail |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Trial |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Frenemy |
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— | 2010 |
4% | Hemingway's Garden of Eden |
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$22.6k | 2010 |
No Score Yet | The Trial |
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— | 2010 |
9% | Opa! |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Poliwood |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Sex and Lies in Sin City: The Ted Binion Scandal |
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— | 2008 |
59% | Mary |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Neighbor |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Have Dreams, Will Travel (Dream It Out Loud) |
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— | 2007 |
68% | Go Go Tales |
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— | 2007 |
18% | Kettle of Fish |
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— | 2006 |
52% | Transporter 2 |
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$43.1M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Funky Monkey |
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— | 2004 |
44% | Hollywood North |
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— | 2004 |
36% | Le Divorce |
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$9M | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Hitler: The Rise of Evil |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | In the Shadows |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Redeemer |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | The Shipment |
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— | 2001 |
0% | Nobody's Baby |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | The American |
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— | 2001 |
86% | Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures |
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— | 2001 |
52% | Bamboozled |
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$1.9M | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Flowers for Algernon (Charlie) |
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— | 2000 |
52% | Any Given Sunday |
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— | 1999 |
83% | Notting Hill |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Maker |
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— | 1998 |
34% | The Real Blonde |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | If... Dog... Rabbit |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | What the Deaf Man Heard |
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— | 1997 |
0% | The Blackout |
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— | 1997 |
38% | Cutthroat Island |
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— | 1995 |
27% | Fluke |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Jacob |
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— | 1994 |
78% | The Browning Version |
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— | 1994 |
19% | Bye Bye, Love |
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— | 1994 |
95% | Short Cuts |
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— | 1993 |
100% | And the Band Played On |
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— | 1993 |
33% | Equinox |
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— | 1992 |
50% | Wind |
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— | 1992 |
50% | Pacific Heights |
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— | 1990 |
67% | Memphis Belle |
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— | 1990 |
30% | Gross Anatomy |
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— | 1989 |
14% | The Lemon Sisters |
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— | 1989 |
89% | Married to the Mob |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | La Partita (The Gamble) |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Eugene O'Neill: Journey into Genius |
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— | 1988 |
67% | Orphans |
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— | 1987 |
92% | Full Metal Jacket |
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— | 1987 |
57% | Vision Quest |
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— | 1985 |
36% | Mrs. Soffel |
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— | 1984 |
82% | Birdy |
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— | 1984 |
71% | The Hotel New Hampshire |
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— | 1984 |
60% | Streamers |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Private School |
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— | 1983 |
94% | Baby It's You |
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$1.9M | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Amy and the Angel |
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— | 1982 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Sanctuary
2019
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93% |
Stranger Things
2016-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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53% |
Proof
2015
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No Score Yet |
The Wendy Williams Show
2008-2020
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13% |
The Bedford Diaries
2006
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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75% |
The West Wing
1999-2006
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No Score Yet |
Nature
1982
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No Score Yet |
American Playhouse
1982-1996
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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No Score Yet |
Masterpiece
1971-2014
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70% |
Weeds
2005-2012
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Quotes from Matthew Modine's Characters
Eric O'Byrne: | Sometimes you have to bend the rules in life or you gain nothing. |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | like a rat in a trap gentlemen |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | Like a rat in a trap, gentlemen! |
GPD Special Operative: | We lost him. [Foley replies into his radio] |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | How could you lose him? |
GPD Special Operative: | He's got a lot of firepower. |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | What? And you don't?! |
GPD Special Operative: | He's heading back downtown. |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | Then he's as dumb as he dresses |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | Close it off, gentlemen! |
Eric: | If you discovered Atlantis, would you be happy to walk away from it without holding a piece of it in your hands? |
Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis: | Is that you John Wayne, is this me? |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | How could you lose him? Police Officer's Voice: He's got a lot of firepower. |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | And you don't? |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | Like a rat in a trap, gentlemen! Veteran Cop: You might have the wrong animal there, sir. |
John Blake: | Are you sure it was him? |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | I want traffic cops, all off-duty, get me every police officer in this town on the Batman now! |
John Blake: | Sir, what about the armed robbers? |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | His wife took the kids and took off for Cleveland. |
Congressman: | Well, he's about to get a lot of visiting hours. The mayor's gonna let him go next spring. |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | Really? But he's a hero! |
Congressman: | A war hero. This is peacetime. |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | There's only one police |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | There's only one police. |
Foley: | There's only one police in this town. |
Deputy Commissioner Foley: | Who do you want to catch? some robber? or the son-of-a-bitch who killed Harvey Dent? |
Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis: | Are those live rounds? |
Leonard Lawrence Pvt. Gomer Pyle: | Seven-six-two millimeter, full metal jacket |
Leonard Lawrence Pvt. Gomer Pyle: | Seven-six-two millimeter, full metal jacket. |
Da Nang Hooker: | You got girlfriend Vietnam? |
Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis: | Not just this minute. |
Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis: | [Delivered in unison with his fellow soldiers] This is my rifle. There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy, who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my rifle and myself are defenders of my country, we are the masters of our enemy, we are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen. |
Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis: | I am in a world of shit, yes. But I am alive. And I'm not afraid. |
Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis: | Sir, Does this mean Ann Margret is not coming? |
Dr. Ralph Wyman: | You know scientifically speaking Marian, there's no such thing as "beyond natural color!" |
Dr. Ralph Wyman: | You know scientifically speaking Marian, there's no such thing as 'beyond natural color!' |
Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis: | I looked forward to meet interesting and stimulating people from a ancient culture... and kill them |
Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis: | I looked forward to meet interesting and stimulating people from a ancient culture... and kill them. |
Morgan Adams: | They're backwards. |
William Shaw: | I assure you ma'am, they're normal in every respect. |
Birdy: | Birdy [as Al is praising the female bosom]: They're just like on a cow, but in a more stupid place. |
Birdy: | [as Al is praising the female bosom] They're just like on a cow, but in a more stupid place. |
Private Joker/Private J.T. Davis: | The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive. |