Matthew Modine on Full Metal Jacket

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A tall and rangy, versatile and engaging actor, Matthew Modine has been a force on the silver screen. Modine has won Golden Globe and Emmy awards. He shared the Venice Film Festival Best Actor Award with the entire cast of Robert Altman's Streamers. Modine won widespread acclaim for his superb work as another Vietnam soldier, the severely withdrawn, schizophrenic title character of Alan Parker's Birdy and was at his self-effacing, ironic best in Stanley Kubrick's blistering Vietnam saga Full Metal Jacket. In Jonathan Demme's brightly-colored farce, Married to the Mob, he was charming as a slightly bumbling FBI agent who falls for a Mafia wife (Michelle Pfeiffer). Derivative roles as a cocky medical student in Gross Anatomy. Robert Altman cast him in another film as an unhappily married neurosurgeon in Short Cuts.

On the hit Showtime series Weeds Modine recently played the Majestic City developer, Sullivan Groff, who besides being incredibly crooked and creepy, has affairs with Mary-Louise Parker and Elizabeth Perkins's characters.