Matthew Modine

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Matthew Modine at the Berlinale 2012

Matthew Modine (born March 22, 1959 in Loma Linda , California ) is an American actor .

Life

Matthew Modine was born in Loma Linda, the youngest of seven children. His parents, Mark Alexander and Dolores Modine, lived with the children in a Mormon family . His mother was an accountant and his father ran drive-in theaters. When the family moved to Utah , the father got a job as a manager in Salt Lake City at the Lyric Theater in downtown. In this cinema, Matthew met the actor Robert Redford , who presented his film Barefoot in the Park .

Matthew saw a making-of of Oliver when he was ten and was so excited about it that he wanted to become an actor himself. At the age of eleven, he took dance lessons to learn how to tap . When Modine was 14 years old, the family moved back to his birthplace, where he attended Mar Vista Junior High School and graduated from there through intermediate stops.

An uncle convinced Modine to study drama at Brigham Young University in Provo , but the recommendation didn't go well and he dropped out after a month. He then made his living doing odd jobs. A few months later he moved to New York City , where he again studied acting and was trained by the acting teacher Stella Adler until 1980.

Matthew Modine has been married to his wife Caridad Rivera since 1980. You are the parents of two children.

Career

Modine at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival

His first film role was in Baby It's You from John Sayles . The director Robert Altman noticed him and drove his career with the film Streamers , for which Modine was awarded with the other actors at the Venice Film Festival. In 1984 he stood in front of the camera with Mel Gibson , where he played his brother in escape for three . He was then seen with Nicolas Cage in Birdy in front of the camera of director Alan Parker , who won an award at the Cannes International Film Festival .

Modine received the lead role of Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket from Stanley Kubrick and made his breakthrough with this war film . In Jonathan Demme's comedy The Mafiosi Bride , he played an FBI agent alongside Michelle Pfeiffer and Alec Baldwin . Matthew Modine was nominated for an Emmy for his performance in ... and life goes on .

In 1995 he played a pickpocket in The Pirate Bride, starring Geena Davis . In 1999 he played an actor in the comedy film Notting Hill with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts . That same year, he played a doctor on the Miami Sharks football team , alongside Al Pacino , Dennis Quaid , Cameron Diaz, and Jamie Foxx in Every Fucking Sunday . After his leading roles, Modine starred in several television films and in 2003 had a guest appearance on the series The West Wing .

In the second part of the Transporter series, Transporter - The Mission , Modine played a politician whose son was kidnapped. Matthew Modine also starred in the mini-series Into the West by Steven Spielberg . For the six-divider the story from the perspective of two families of white Americans and is Lakota - Indians , tells about several generations.

He is often dubbed by Philipp Moog .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Matthew Modine  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthew Modine Biography (1959-) Filmreference.com (English)
  2. ↑ Matthew Modine Biography - Yahoo! Movies (English) ( Memento from November 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Modine, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Loma Linda , California , United States