Matthew Modine
Actor
Born March 22, 1959 in 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).
Filmography
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Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Self
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
Self
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!
Hard Miles
Greg Townsend
Retribution
Anders Muller
I Am What You Imagine
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
The Fuse
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
Backtrace
MacDonald
Speed Kills
George Bush
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Secretary of Defense James Riley
Filmworker
Self
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
The Confirmation
Kyle
Last Days of Coney Island
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
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Jobs
John Sculley
CAT. 8
Dr. Michael Ranger
Family Weekend
Duncan Dungy
CAT. 8
Dr. Michael Ranger
The Dark Knight Rises
Foley
Girl in Progress
Dr. Harford
Too Big to Fail
John Thain
Adventures in Plymptoons!
Self
Jesus Was a Commie
Himself
The Trial
Mac
Mulberry St.
Self
Little Fish, Strange Pond
Mr. Jack
Sex and Lies in Sin City
Ted Binion
PoliWood
Self
Santa: The Fascist Years
Narrator (voice)
Go Go Tales
Johnie Ruby
Cowboy
Cowboy
I Think I Thought
Joe
Garden of Eden
David's Father
The Neighbor
Jeff
Have Dreams, Will Travel
Ben's Father
Kettle of Fish
Mel
The Bedford Diaries
Jake Macklin
Mary
Tony Childress / Jesus
Opa!
Eric
Odyssey in Rome
Weeds
Sullivan Groff
Transporter 2
Jefferson Billings
Into the West
Samson Wheeler
Funky Monkey
Alec McCall
The Winning Season
Honus Wagner
Hollywood North
Bobby Myers
Le Divorce
Tellman
Overnight
Self
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Fritz Gerlich
Redeemer
Paul Freeman
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Jack Robinson
The Shipment
Mitch Garrett
In the Shadows
Eric
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Self
Nobody's Baby
Sonny
Bamboozled
Himself
Very Mean Men
Bartender
Flowers for Algernon
Charlie Gordon
Any Given Sunday
Dr. Ollie Powers
If... Dog... Rabbit
Johnnie Cooper
The West Wing
Marco Arlens
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Gordon Rickett
Notting Hill
Actor (uncredited)
The American
Christopher Newman
So Graham Norton
Self - Guest
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Lawrence Svobida (voice)
The Real Blonde
Joe
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Self
What the Deaf Man Heard
Sammy Ayers
The Maker
Walter Schmeiss
The Blackout
Matty
Ecce Pirate
Narrator
Cutthroat Island
William Shaw
Fluke
Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
Lo + plus
Self - Guest
Bye Bye Love
Dave Goldman
Jacob
Jakob
The Browning Version
Frank Hunter
American Cinema
Self
Short Cuts
Dr. Ralph Wyman
And the Band Played On
Dr. Don Francis
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Self
The Tree
Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
When I Was a Boy
Equinox
Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
Wind
Will Parker
Pacific Heights
Drake Goodman
Memphis Belle
Dennis Dearborn
The Simpsons
Dr. Stern (voice)
The Lemon Sisters
Wild Bill Hamer
Gross Anatomy
Joe Slovak
The Gamble
Francesco Sacredo
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
Married to the Mob
Mike Downey
Orphans
Treat
Full Metal Jacket
Pvt. Joker
Vision Quest
Louden Swain
Mrs. Soffel
Jack Biddle
Birdy
Birdy
The Hotel New Hampshire
Chip Dove / Ernst
Streamers
Billy
Private School
Jim Green
Baby It's You
Steve
Amy and the Angel
Randy
American Playhouse
Eugene O'Neill
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sammy Ayers