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.
Movies (111)
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
2026
Protector
2026
Hard Miles
2024
Retribution
2023
Oppenheimer
2023
The Martini Shot
2023
My Love Affair with Marriage
2023
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2023
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
2021
Against the Current
2021
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021
Wrong Turn
2021
Chance
2020
Guardians of Life
2020
Miss Virginia
2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
Foster Boy
2019
Backtrace
2018
Speed Kills
2018
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
Filmworker
2018
47 Meters Down
2017
The Hippopotamus
2017
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016
Army of One
2016
Revengeance
2016
The Confirmation
2016
Unity
2015
The Brainwashing of My Dad
2015
Merry Xmas
2015
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
Altar
2014
Kubrick Remembered
2014
Guests
2014
Jobs
2013
Family Weekend
2013
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
Girl in Progress
2012
Too Big to Fail
2011
Jesus Was a Commie
2011
The Trial
2010
Mulberry St.
2010
Little Fish, Strange Pond
2009
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2009
PoliWood
2009
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008
Go Go Tales
2008
Cowboy
2008
I Think I Thought
2008
Garden of Eden
2008
The Neighbor
2007
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007
Kettle of Fish
2006
Mary
2005
Opa!
2005
Odyssey in Rome
2005
Transporter 2
2005
Funky Monkey
2004
The Winning Season
2004
Hollywood North
2004
Le Divorce
2003
Overnight
2003
Redeemer
2002
The Shipment
2001
In the Shadows
2001
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
Nobody's Baby
2001
Bamboozled
2000
Very Mean Men
2000
Flowers for Algernon
2000
Any Given Sunday
1999
If... Dog... Rabbit
1999
Notting Hill
1999
The American
1998
Surviving the Dust Bowl
1998
The Real Blonde
1998
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997
The Maker
1997
The Blackout
1997
Ecce Pirate
1997
Cutthroat Island
1995
Fluke
1995
Bye Bye Love
1995
Jacob
1994
The Browning Version
1994
Short Cuts
1993
And the Band Played On
1993
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993
The Tree
1993
Equinox
1992
Wind
1992
Pacific Heights
1990
Memphis Belle
1990
The Lemon Sisters
1989
Gross Anatomy
1989
The Gamble
1988
Married to the Mob
1988
Orphans
1987
Full Metal Jacket
1987
Vision Quest
1985
Mrs. Soffel
1984
Birdy
1984
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
Streamers
1983
Private School
1983
Baby It's You
1983
Amy and the Angel
1982
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
TV Shows (22)
The Better Sister
2025
Zero Day
2025
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
Stranger Things
2016
Stranger Things
2016
Proof
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
CAT. 8
2013
The Bedford Diaries
2006
Weeds
2005
Into the West
2005
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
2003
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
The West Wing
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
So Graham Norton
1998
Lo + plus
1995
American Cinema
1994
The Simpsons
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Saturday Night Live
1975
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951