His performances caught the eye of director Harold Becker, who cast him in Vision Quest (1985), based on Terry Davis's novel. Also that year, he co-starred in the sex comedy Private School, with Phoebe Cates and Betsy Russell. Modine's first film role was in John Sayles' film Baby It's You (1983). The Modine family returned to Imperial Beach, California where Matthew attended and graduated from Mar Vista High School in 1977. The drive-in theaters his father managed were being torn down because the land beneath them exceeded the value of the theaters. Modine lived in Utah for several years, moving every year or two. One of his paternal great-grandfathers was a Swedish immigrant. He is the nephew of the stage actress Nola Modine Fairbanks, and the great-grandson of the prospector and pioneer Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks. Modine, the youngest of seven children, was born in Loma Linda, California, the son of Dolores (née Warner), a bookkeeper, and Mark Alexander Modine, who managed drive-in theaters. 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 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. Don Francis in And the Band Played On and Ivan Turing in Proof. Martin Brenner in Netflix's Stranger Things, the oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds, Dr. On television, Modine portrays the villainous Dr. His 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. Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker, who rose to prominence through his role as U.S.
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