American actor and filmmaker, who rose to prominence through his role as U.S. Marine Private/Sergeant J.T. “Joker” Davis in 1987 war drama film Full Metal Jacket.
His other film roles include the title character in Birdy (1984), the high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest (1985), FBI agent Mike Downey in Married to the Mob (1988), Joe Slovak in Gross Anatomy (1989), Drake Goodman in Pacific Heights (1990), Dr. Ralph Wyman in Short Cuts (1993), William Shaw in Cutthroat Island (1995) and Peter Foley in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). On television, Modine portrays Dr. Don Francis in And the Band Played On (1993), the oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds (2007), Ivan Turing in Proof (2015) and the villainous Dr. Martin Brenner in 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 (1997) 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.
Modine married Caridad Rivera, a Puerto Rican makeup and wardrobe stylist, in 1980. They have two children, Boman, an assistant director for films, and actress, singer and ballet dancer Ruby Modine.
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