Matthew Modine

Known for ActingBorn 1959-03-22 (age 67)Loma Linda, California, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Red Ink

How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire

Surviving the Dust Bowl

When I Was a Boy

Stranger Things

Protector

Miss Virginia

American Cinema

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Oppenheimer

The West Wing

Into the West

Full Metal Jacket

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman

Ecce Pirate

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

100 Years of Warner Bros.

The Dark Knight Rises

The Simpsons

Have Dreams, Will Travel

Unity

Weeds

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

So Graham Norton

Filmworker

Notting Hill

Zero Day

Short Cuts

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Redeemer

The Better Sister

Too Big to Fail

Odyssey in Rome

Fluke

Downwind

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

Hard Miles

Birdy

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents

Foster Boy

Any Given Sunday

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Retribution

The Martini Shot

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

Jacob