
Matthew Modine
2 FOLLOWERS • 36 CREDITS • MAR 22, 1959 • 66
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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Known For

Hallmark Hall of Fame

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Notting Hill

Weeds

Baby It's You

Stranger Things

Oppenheimer

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Zero Day

The Dark Knight Rises

The Better Sister

Breaking News in Yuba County

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Wrong Turn

Any Given Sunday

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

Too Big to Fail

Transporter 2

Retribution

Girl in Progress

Saturday Night Live

47 Meters Down

Cutthroat Island

Memphis Belle

The Neighbor

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

Full Metal Jacket

Hard Miles

Bye Bye Love

The West Wing

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
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