
Age: 67
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Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker. He shared the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actor as part of the ensemble cast of Robert Altman's film Streamers (1983). He went on to play lead roles in several high-profile films throughout the 1980s, including Birdy (1984), Vision Quest (1985), and Married to the Mob (1988). He gained further prominence for playing U.S. Marine James T. "Joker" Davis in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987). Other notable films include Pacific Heights (1990), Short Cuts (1993), Cutthroat Island (1995), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Oppenheimer (2023). On television, he portrayed Dr. Don Francis in the HBO film And the Band Played On (1993), Sullivan Groff on Weeds (2007), Ivan Turing in Proof (2015), and Dr. Martin Brenner on 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 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.

Matthew Modine

Carmine Falcone
for Carmine Falcone in THE BAT | Season 1 Episode 5
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The outspoken detective Dick Grayson is attacked by several thugs, all hired by Carmine Falcone. Fortunately, Batman is in the area and arrives to help. When the young detective is wounded, Alfred speaks with Bruce through comms and convinces him to bring Dick to the Batcave. Meanwhile, Vicki Vale begins putting Bruce and Batman’s appearances and disappearances together. Dick is healed in the Batcave, and an alliance begins to form between him and Gotham’s vigilante. The episode closes with Edward Nashton, The Riddler’s secret identity, meeting with someone in a dark alleyway. The man scolds Nashton for his compulsion to leave riddles at his crime scenes, but Nashton insists it’s part of a bigger picture. We soon realize the man is none other than Batman’s ally, District Attorney Harvey Dent.