Matthew Modine
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 22, 1959 (age 67)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Movie · as Self
Kubrick's War: The Making of Full Metal Jacket
Movie · as Self - Pvt. Joker, Full Metal Jacket
The Splendid Thing
Movie · as Declan King
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Movie · as General Fulton
Protector
Movie · as Colonel Joseph Lavelle
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Movie · as Self - 'Stranger Things' Dr Brenner
Zero Day
TV · as Richard Dreyer · 6 eps
The Better Sister
TV · as Bill Braddock · 8 eps
Hard Miles
Movie · as Greg Townsend
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Retribution
Movie · as Anders Muller
The Martini Shot
Movie · as Steve
Oppenheimer
Movie · as Vannevar Bush
My Love Affair with Marriage
Movie · as Bo (voice)
100 Years of Warner Bros.
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Against the Current
Movie · as Narrator
Wrong Turn
Movie · as Scott Shaw
Breaking News in Yuba County
Movie · as Karl Buttons
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Movie · as Rick Singer
Guardians of Life
Movie
Chance
Movie · as Coach Mike
Miss Virginia
Movie · as Congressman Cliff Williams
Foster Boy
Movie · as Michael Trainer
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Movie · as Self
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Movie · as Secretary of Defense James Riley
Backtrace
Movie · as MacDonald
Speed Kills
Movie · as George Bush
Filmworker
Movie · as Self
The Green Fog
Movie
47 Meters Down
Movie · as Taylor
The Hippopotamus
Movie · as Michael Logan
The Confirmation
Movie · as Kyle
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Movie · as Bob Riley
Army of One
Movie · as Dr. Ross
Revengeance
Movie · as Sid
Stranger Things
TV · as Dr. Martin Brenner, Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage) · 19 eps
Unity
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Movie · as Theodore Foster
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Movie · as Himself - Narrator
Merry Xmas
Movie · as Abe
Proof
TV · as Ivan Turing · 10 eps
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
Movie · as Self
Altar
Movie · as Alec
Guests
Movie · as Theodore Foster
Kubrick Remembered
Movie · as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Jobs
Movie · as John Sculley
Family Weekend
Movie · as Duncan Dungy
CAT. 8
Movie · as Dr. Michael Ranger
CAT. 8
TV · as Dr. Michael Ranger · 2 eps
The Dark Knight Rises
Movie · as Foley
Girl in Progress
Movie · as Dr. Harford
Too Big to Fail
Movie · as John Thain
Adventures in Plymptoons!
Movie · as Self
Jesus Was a Commie
Movie · as Himself
The Trial
Movie · as Mac
Mulberry St.
Movie · as Self
Sex and Lies in Sin City
Movie · as Ted Binion
Little Fish, Strange Pond
Movie · as Mr. Jack
PoliWood
Movie · as Self
Garden of Eden
Movie · as David's Father
Go Go Tales
Movie · as Johnie Ruby
Cowboy
Movie · as Cowboy
I Think I Thought
Movie · as Joe
Santa: The Fascist Years
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Have Dreams, Will Travel
Movie · as Ben's Father
The Neighbor
Movie · as Jeff
Kettle of Fish
Movie · as Mel
The Bedford Diaries
TV · as Jake Macklin · 8 eps
Transporter 2
Movie · as Jefferson Billings
Mary
Movie · as Tony Childress / Jesus
Opa!
Movie · as Eric
Odyssey in Rome
Movie
Into the West
TV · as Samson Wheeler · 6 eps
Weeds
TV · as Sullivan Groff · 15 eps
Funky Monkey
Movie · as Alec McCall
Hollywood North
Movie · as Bobby Myers
The Winning Season
Movie · as Honus Wagner
The Tony Danza Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Overnight
Movie · as Self
Le Divorce
Movie · as Tellman
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
TV · as Fritz Gerlich · 2 eps
Redeemer
Movie · as Paul Freeman
World Birth Day
Movie · as Self - Narrator(voice)
In the Shadows
Movie · as Eric
Nobody's Baby
Movie · as Sonny
The Shipment
Movie · as Mitch Garrett
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
Movie · as Self
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
TV · as Jack Robinson · 2 eps
Flowers for Algernon
Movie · as Charlie Gordon
Bamboozled
Movie · as Himself
Very Mean Men
Movie · as Bartender
Any Given Sunday
Movie · as Dr. Ollie Powers
If... Dog... Rabbit
Movie · as Johnnie Cooper
Notting Hill
Movie · as Actor (uncredited)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV · as Gordon Rickett · 1 ep
The West Wing
TV · as Marco Arlens · 1 ep
The Real Blonde
Movie · as Joe
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Movie · as Self
The American
Movie · as Christopher Newman
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Movie · as Lawrence Svobida (voice)
So Graham Norton
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Blackout
Movie · as Matty
The Maker
Movie · as Walter Schmeiss
What the Deaf Man Heard
Movie · as Sammy Ayers
Ecce Pirate
Movie · as Narrator
Cutthroat Island
Movie · as William Shaw
Fluke
Movie · as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
Bye Bye Love
Movie · as Dave Goldman
Lo + plus
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Jacob
Movie · as Jakob
The Browning Version
Movie · as Frank Hunter
American Cinema
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Short Cuts
Movie · as Dr. Ralph Wyman
And the Band Played On
Movie · as Dr. Don Francis
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Movie · as Self
The Tree
Movie · as Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
Wind
Movie · as Will Parker
Equinox
Movie · as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
Pacific Heights
Movie · as Drake Goodman
Memphis Belle
Movie · as Dennis Dearborn
Gross Anatomy
Movie · as Joe Slovak
The Lemon Sisters
Movie · as Wild Bill Hamer
The Simpsons
TV · as Dr. Stern (voice) · 1 ep
Married to the Mob
Movie · as Mike Downey
The Gamble
Movie · as Francesco Sacredo
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV · as Self - Guest · 3 eps
Full Metal Jacket
Movie · as Pvt. Joker
Orphans
Movie · as Treat
Vision Quest
Movie · as Louden Swain
Birdy
Movie · as Birdy
Mrs. Soffel
Movie · as Jack Biddle
The Hotel New Hampshire
Movie · as Chip Dove / Ernst
Streamers
Movie · as Billy
Private School
Movie · as Jim Green
Baby It's You
Movie · as Steve
Amy and the Angel
Movie · as Randy
American Playhouse
TV · as Eugene O'Neill · 1 ep
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Sammy Ayers · 1 ep