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Matthew Modine

Matthew Modine

Actor · Born 1959-03-22 · Loma Linda, California, USA

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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 Out…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) — Foley
  2. Stranger Things (2016) — Dr. Martin Brenner
  3. Oppenheimer (2023) — Vannevar Bush
  4. Full Metal Jacket (1987) — Pvt. Joker
  5. The Simpsons (1989) — Dr. Stern (voice)
  6. Notting Hill (1999) — Actor (uncredited)
  7. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) — Gordon Rickett
  8. Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) — Secretary of Defense James Riley
  9. Transporter 2 (2005) — Jefferson Billings
  10. 47 Meters Down (2017) — Taylor
  11. Jobs (2013) — John Sculley
  12. Any Given Sunday (1999) — Dr. Ollie Powers
  13. Retribution (2023) — Anders Muller
  14. Wrong Turn (2021) — Scott Shaw
  15. Weeds (2005) — Sullivan Groff
  16. Short Cuts (1993) — Dr. Ralph Wyman
  17. Cutthroat Island (1995) — William Shaw
  18. Birdy (1984) — Birdy
  19. The West Wing (1999) — Marco Arlens
  20. Saturday Night Live (1975) — Self - Host
  21. Protector (2026) — Colonel Joseph Lavelle
  22. Zero Day (2025) — Richard Dreyer
  23. Memphis Belle (1990) — Dennis Dearborn
  24. Pacific Heights (1990) — Drake Goodman
  25. Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) — Fritz Gerlich
  26. Army of One (2016) — Dr. Ross
  27. Married to the Mob (1988) — Mike Downey
  28. Fluke (1995) — Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
  29. Too Big to Fail (2011) — John Thain
  30. Backtrace (2018) — MacDonald
  31. How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents (2016) — Bob Riley
  32. Breaking News in Yuba County (2021) — Karl Buttons
  33. Family Weekend (2013) — Duncan Dungy
  34. Private School (1983) — Jim Green
  35. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) — Self
  36. The Confirmation (2016) — Kyle
  37. Le Divorce (2003) — Tellman
  38. Bamboozled (2000) — Himself
  39. Speed Kills (2018) — George Bush
  40. Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (2021) — Rick Singer

Directed

  1. If... Dog... Rabbit (1999) — Director
  2. Super Sex (2016) — Director
  3. Cowboy (2008) — Director
  4. Ecce Pirate (1997) — Director
  5. When I Was a Boy (1993) — Director
  6. I Am What You Imagine (2023) — Director
  7. Jesus Was a Commie (2011) — Director
  8. I Think I Thought (2008) — Director
  9. The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project (2011) — Director
  10. The Splendid Thing — Director