Matthew Modine
Biography
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.
Known For
Pvt. Joker
Full Metal Jacket
William Shaw
Cutthroat Island
Dr. Ralph Wyman
Short Cuts
Mike Downey
Married to the Mob
Jakob
Jacob
Dr. Don Francis
And the Band Played On
Drake Goodman
Pacific Heights
Randy
Amy and the Angel
Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
Fluke
Louden Swain
Vision Quest
Birdy
Birdy
Dave Goldman
Bye Bye Love
Ted Binion
Sex and Lies in Sin City
David's Father
Garden of Eden
Treat
Orphans
Jack Biddle
Mrs. Soffel
Matty
The Blackout
Dr. Ollie Powers
Any Given Sunday
Jefferson Billings
Transporter 2
Dennis Dearborn
Memphis Belle
Eric
In the Shadows
Charlie Gordon
Flowers for Algernon
Will Parker
Wind
Joe
The Real Blonde
Ben's Father
Have Dreams, Will Travel
Alec McCall
Funky Monkey
Mel
Kettle of Fish
Tony Childress / Jesus
Mary
John Thain
Too Big to Fail
Jeff
The Neighbor
Joe Slovak
Gross Anatomy
Foley
The Dark Knight Rises
Billy
Streamers
Mac
The Trial
Sonny
Nobody's Baby
Jim Green
Private School
Frank Hunter
The Browning Version
Mr. Jack
Little Fish, Strange Pond
Narrator (voice)
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
Johnie Ruby
Go Go Tales
Dr. Harford
Girl in Progress
Bobby Myers
Hollywood North
Walter Schmeiss
The Maker
Sammy Ayers
What the Deaf Man Heard
Eric
Opa!
Honus Wagner
The Winning Season
Mitch Garrett
The Shipment
Anders Muller
Retribution
Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
Equinox
John Sculley
Jobs
Duncan Dungy
Family Weekend
Cowboy
Cowboy
Paul Freeman
Redeemer
Johnnie Cooper
If... Dog... Rabbit
Steve
The Martini Shot
Self
Mulberry St.
Steve
Baby It's You
Greg Townsend
Hard Miles
Self
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
Francesco Sacredo
La partita
Narrator
Against the Current
Vannevar Bush
Oppenheimer
Self
Adventures in Plymptoons!
Alec
Altar
Self
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Odyssey in Rome
Narrator (voice)
Unity
Theodore Foster
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Theodore Foster
Guests
Kyle
The Confirmation
Taylor
47 Meters Down
Himself - Narrator
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Michael Logan
The Hippopotamus
Himself
Jesus Was a Commie
Bob Riley
Come diventare grandi nonostante i genitori
Himself
Bamboozled
Joe
I Think I Thought
Self
Overnight
Bartender
Very Mean Men
Narrator (voice)
Santa: The Fascist Years
Secretary of Defense James Riley
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Christopher Newman
The American
MacDonald
Backtrace
George Bush
Speed Kills
Self
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Self
Filmworker
Bo (voice)
My Love Affair with Marriage
Actor (uncredited)
Notting Hill
Congressman Cliff Williams
Miss Virginia
Self
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Dr. Ross
Army of One
Scott Shaw
Wrong Turn
Self
Kubrick Remembered
Abe
Merry Xmas
Guardians of Life
Coach Mike
Chance
Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
The Tree
Tellman
Le Divorce
Michael Trainer
Foster Boy
Sid
Revengeance
Self
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Karl Buttons
Breaking News in Yuba County
Lawrence Svobida (voice)
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Rick Singer
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Chip Dove / Ernst
The Hotel New Hampshire
Wild Bill Hamer
The Lemon Sisters
Self
PoliWood
Narrator
Ecce Pirate
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Self
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Colonel Joseph Lavelle
Protector
Bertie (voice)
The Flying House
Self
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
Self - Narrator(voice)
World Birth Day
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
114
Gender
Male
Birthday
1959-03-22
Place of Birth
Loma Linda, California, USA
Also Known As
Matthew Avery Modine