Matthew Modine
Acting
- Born:
- 1959-03-22
- Place of birth:
- Loma Linda, California, USA
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
Protector
The Better Sister
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Zero Day
Hard Miles
Retribution
Oppenheimer
The Martini Shot
My Love Affair with Marriage
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Against the Current
Breaking News in Yuba County
Wrong Turn
Chance
Guardians of Life
Miss Virginia
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Foster Boy
Backtrace
Speed Kills
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Filmworker
The Green Fog
47 Meters Down
The Hippopotamus
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Army of One
Revengeance
Stranger Things
The Confirmation
Unity
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Proof
Merry Xmas
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Altar
Kubrick Remembered
Guests
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Jobs
CAT. 8
Family Weekend
CAT. 8
The Dark Knight Rises
Girl in Progress
Too Big to Fail
Adventures in Plymptoons!
Jesus Was a Commie
The Trial
Mulberry St.
Little Fish, Strange Pond
Sex and Lies in Sin City
PoliWood
Santa: The Fascist Years
Garden of Eden
Go Go Tales
Cowboy
I Think I Thought
The Neighbor
Have Dreams, Will Travel
Kettle of Fish
The Bedford Diaries
Mary
Opa!
Odyssey in Rome
Weeds
Transporter 2
Into the West
Funky Monkey
The Tony Danza Show
The Winning Season
Hollywood North
Le Divorce
Overnight
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Redeemer
World Birth Day
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
The Shipment
In the Shadows
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
Nobody's Baby
Bamboozled
Very Mean Men
Flowers for Algernon
Any Given Sunday
If... Dog... Rabbit
The West Wing
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Notting Hill
The American
So Graham Norton
Surviving the Dust Bowl
The Real Blonde
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
What the Deaf Man Heard
The Maker
The Blackout
Ecce Pirate
Cutthroat Island
Fluke
Lo + plus
Bye Bye Love
Jacob
The Browning Version
American Cinema
Short Cuts
And the Band Played On
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
The Tree
Equinox
Wind
Pacific Heights
Memphis Belle
The Simpsons
The Lemon Sisters
Gross Anatomy
The Gamble
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Married to the Mob
Orphans
Full Metal Jacket
Vision Quest
Mrs. Soffel
Birdy
The Hotel New Hampshire
Streamers
Private School
Baby It's You
Amy and the Angel
American Playhouse
Saturday Night Live
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Kubrick's War: The Making of Full Metal Jacket
The Splendid Thing