
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

Dr. Martin Stein
for Dr. Martin Stein in The Flash
Suggested by keiranbatkin2

After Barry Allen's trip to star city where he helped the green arrow take down Count Vertigo he returned home to be struck by lightning and thrown into a shelf of chemicals at his crime lab and when he woke up, he found himself with superhuman speed and went to star labs for further testing with help from the staff Ronnie Raymond who himself alongside Professor martin stein are known as the superhero firestorm and Hartley Rathaway who is genius in sonic frequency's. Barry decides to help people with these powers inspired by a golden age superhero he loved as a child and with that hero's permission and some strong advice from Oliver Queen he became THE FLASH and took down villainous Captain Cold. (A direct follow up of The Green Arrow of Star City)

