Matthew Modine
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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Movies (44)
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027
Protector
as Colonel Joseph Lavelle
2026
I Hope This Helps!
Executive Producer (Production)
2024
Hard Miles
as Greg Townsend
2024
The Martini Shot
as Steve
2023
Retribution
as Anders Muller
2023
I Am What You Imagine
Director (Directing)
2023
Oppenheimer
as Vannevar Bush
2023
My Love Affair with Marriage
as Bo (voice)
2023
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
as Narrator (voice)
2023
Downwind
Producer (Production)
2023
The Fuse
Executive Producer (Production)
2022
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
as Rick Singer
2021
Against the Current
as Narrator
2021
Breaking News in Yuba County
as Karl Buttons
2021
Wrong Turn
as Scott Shaw
2021
Chance
as Coach Mike
2020
Guardians of Life
2020
Miss Virginia
as Congressman Cliff Williams
2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
2019
Foster Boy
as Michael Trainer
2019
Red Ink
Thanks (Crew)
2019
Backtrace
as MacDonald
2018
Speed Kills
as George Bush
2018
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Secretary of Defense James Riley
2018
Filmworker
as Self
2018
47 Meters Down
as Taylor
2017
The Hippopotamus
as Michael Logan
2017
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
as Bob Riley
2016
Army of One
as Dr. Ross
2016
Revengeance
as Sid
2016
Super Sex
Director (Directing)
2016
The Confirmation
as Kyle
2016
Last Days of Coney Island
Executive Producer (Production)
2015
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
2015
The Brainwashing of My Dad
as Himself - Narrator
2015
Merry Xmas
as Abe
2015
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
as Theodore Foster
2015
Altar
as Alec
2014
Kubrick Remembered
as Self
2014
Guests
as Theodore Foster
2014
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
as Self
2014
Jobs
as John Sculley
2013
Family Weekend
as Duncan Dungy
2013
