Matthew Modine
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.
137 acting credits · 10 directing credits
Acting · 137
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Simpsons
1989
Stranger Things
2016
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Saturday Night Live
1975
The West Wing
1999
Weeds
2005
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Protector
2026
Oppenheimer
2023
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Full Metal Jacket
1987
Zero Day
2025
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
Wrong Turn
2021
The Better Sister
2025
Notting Hill
1999
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
2003
Into the West
2005
So Graham Norton
1998
Transporter 2
2005
Lo + plus
1995
Retribution
2023
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
Cutthroat Island
1995
Any Given Sunday
1999
The Bedford Diaries
2006
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
47 Meters Down
2017
Private School
1983
American Cinema
1994
Short Cuts
1993
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027
Backtrace
2018
Proof
2015
CAT. 8
2013
Jobs
2013
Birdy
1984
Unity
2015
Pacific Heights
1990
Married to the Mob
1988
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021
Le Divorce
2003
Fluke
1995
Memphis Belle
1990
The Neighbor
2007
Too Big to Fail
2011
The Trial
2010
And the Band Played On
1993
Vision Quest
1985
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998
Army of One
2016
Jacob
1994
Bamboozled
2000
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
The Hippopotamus
2017
Speed Kills
2018
The Browning Version
1994
Mrs. Soffel
1984
The Confirmation
2016
Wind
1992
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
2021
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
PoliWood
2009
Baby It's You
1983
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993
Overnight
2003
Funky Monkey
2004
Family Weekend
2013
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
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Bye Bye Love
1995
The Real Blonde
1998
Hard Miles
2024
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
In the Shadows
2001
Equinox
1992
Mary
2005
The Lemon Sisters
1989
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011
Foster Boy
2019
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
Gross Anatomy
1989
Girl in Progress
2012
Go Go Tales
2008
Streamers
1983
Nobody's Baby
2001
The American
1998
The Maker
1997
Little Fish, Strange Pond
2009
Kettle of Fish
2006
Garden of Eden
2008
The Gamble
1988
The Blackout
1997
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2009
If... Dog... Rabbit
1999
Flowers for Algernon
2000
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997
Miss Virginia
2019
Very Mean Men
2000
My Love Affair with Marriage
2023
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016
Altar
2014
Surviving the Dust Bowl
1998
Orphans
1987
Filmworker
2018
Kubrick Remembered
2014
Redeemer
2002
Hollywood North
2004
Ecce Pirate
1997
The Martini Shot
2023
Mulberry St.
2010
The Shipment
2001
Odyssey in Rome
2005
Opa!
2005
Chance
2020
The Brainwashing of My Dad
2015
Amy and the Angel
1982
The Winning Season
2004
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
2026
Revengeance
2016
Jesus Was a Commie
2011
The Tree
1993
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
2014
Guests
2014
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
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Guardians of Life
2020
Against the Current
2021
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2023
Cowboy
2008
Merry Xmas
2015
I Think I Thought
2008
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008
The Splendid Thing
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World Birth Day
2002
