Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 22, 1959
Place of Birth
Loma Linda, California, USA
Credits
150 titles
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
Filmography
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
Self - Narrator
Protector
Colonel Joseph Lavelle
The Better Sister
Bill Braddock
Zero Day
Richard Dreyer
I Hope This Helps!
Executive Producer
Hard Miles
Greg Townsend
Retribution
Anders Muller
I Am What You Imagine
Writer
Oppenheimer
Vannevar Bush
The Martini Shot
Steve
My Love Affair with Marriage
Bo (voice)
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Self
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
Narrator (voice)
Downwind
Producer
The Fuse
Executive Producer
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Rick Singer
Against the Current
Narrator
Breaking News in Yuba County
Karl Buttons
Wrong Turn
Scott Shaw
Chance
Coach Mike
Guardians of Life
Miss Virginia
Congressman Cliff Williams
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Self
Foster Boy
Michael Trainer
Red Ink
Thanks
Backtrace
MacDonald
Speed Kills
George Bush
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Secretary of Defense James Riley
Filmworker
Self
The Green Fog
47 Meters Down
Taylor
The Hippopotamus
Michael Logan
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Bob Riley
Army of One
Dr. Ross
Revengeance
Sid
Stranger Things
Dr. Martin Brenner
Super Sex
Director
The Confirmation
Kyle
Last Days of Coney Island
Executive Producer
Unity
Narrator (voice)
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Himself - Narrator
Proof
Ivan Turing
Merry Xmas
Abe
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Theodore Foster
Altar
Alec
Kubrick Remembered
Self
Guests
Theodore Foster
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self