What is Matthew Modine famous for? What happened to Matthew Modine?

Matthew Avery Modine was born on March 22, 1959, and is an American actor and filmmaker.

Matthew Avery Modine rose to prominence through his role as U.S. Marine Private/Sergeant J.T. “Joker” Davis in Full Metal Jacket.

Matthew’s other film roles include the title character in Birdy, the high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, FBI agent Mike Downey in Married to the Mob, Joe Slovak in Gross Anatomy, William Shaw in Cutthroat Island, Drake Goodman in Pacific Heights, Peter Foley in The Dark Knight Rises, and Dr. Ralph Wyman in Short Cuts.

On television, Modine portrays the villainous Dr. Martin Brenner in Netflix’s Stranger Things, the oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds, Dr. Don Francis in And the Band Played On, and Ivan Turing in Proof.

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.

What is Matthew Modine famous for?

Modine may be best known for his role as Private/Sergeant J.T. “Joker” Davis, the central character of Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam War movie Full Metal Jacket (1987).

What happened to Matthew Modine?

Modine is Dr Martin Brenner in the hit Netflix series Stranger Things and is currently playing Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird in the West End of London. He is married with two children and lives in New York.