Matthew Modine
(Honus Wagner)

Matthew Modine recently filmed the Warner Bros. feature Hairy Tale, starring opposite Fred Ward and Jeffrey Tambor. He was last seen in Merchant-Ivory's Le Divorce, opposite Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts. A veteran of more than 30 films, Modine has starred in Alan Parker's Birdy, Jonathan Demme's Married to the Mob, Vision Quest, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Gross Anatomy, Mike Figgis' The Browning Version, John Schlesinger's Pacific Heights and Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, to name a few. For television, he most recently appeared in the CBS miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil, portraying Fritz Gerlich opposite Robert Carlyle, Peter O'Toole, Stockard Channing and Liev Schreiber. His other television credits include the miniseries Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, opposite Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Richard Attenborough and Jon Voight, and the telefilms Flowers for Algernon and Redeemer.

Modine was a recipient of the 1993 Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Ensemble Cast in Robert Altman's Golden Lion Award-winning Short Cuts. He earned Golden Globe® and Emmy® nominations for his performance in HBO's critically acclaimed, Emmy®-winning drama And the Band Played On. Modine also received a Golden Globe® nomination for his performance in the 1998 Hallmark Entertainment production What the Deaf Man Heard (CBS), at the time the highest rated television movie on any network since 1991.

Modine directed three short films, When I Was a Boy, Smoking and Ece Pirate. All debuted at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim, and have gone on to play in major film festivals worldwide. He wrote, directed and starred in his feature directorial debut If...Dog...Rabbit for Showtime. Modine also directed the play 12 Angry Men, starring F. Murray Abraham, Wallace Shawn and Seymour Cassel, at the New Mercury Theater.