Matthew Modine
Known for Acting · 140 credits
- Born
- 1959-03-22 (age 67)
- Place of birth
- Loma Linda, California, USA
- Also known as
- Matthew Avery 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.
Known For
TV Shows (23)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Gordon Rickett
The Simpsons
1989
as Dr. Stern (voice)
Stranger Things
2016
as Dr. Martin Brenner / Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
The West Wing
1999
as Marco Arlens
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
Weeds
2005
as Sullivan Groff
American Playhouse
1982
as Eugene O'Neill
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self - Guest
The Better Sister
2025
as Bill Braddock
Zero Day
2025
as Richard Dreyer
So Graham Norton
1998
as Self - Guest
Lo + plus
1995
as Self - Guest
Into the West
2005
as Samson Wheeler
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
as Self
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
2003
as Fritz Gerlich
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Sammy Ayers
American Cinema
1994
as Self
CAT. 8
2013
as Dr. Michael Ranger
Proof
2015
as Ivan Turing
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
as Jack Robinson
The Bedford Diaries
2006
as Jake Macklin
Movies (117)
Oppenheimer
2023
as Vannevar Bush
Protector
2026
as Colonel Joseph Lavelle
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
as Foley
Full Metal Jacket
1987
as Pvt. Joker
Notting Hill
1999
as Actor (uncredited)
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
as Secretary of Defense James Riley
Transporter 2
2005
as Jefferson Billings
Wrong Turn
2021
as Scott Shaw
Retribution
2023
as Anders Muller
47 Meters Down
2017
as Taylor
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027
Any Given Sunday
1999
as Dr. Ollie Powers
Cutthroat Island
1995
as William Shaw
Pacific Heights
1990
as Drake Goodman
Jobs
2013
as John Sculley
Married to the Mob
1988
as Mike Downey
Short Cuts
1993
as Dr. Ralph Wyman
Too Big to Fail
2011
as John Thain
Private School
1983
as Jim Green
Family Weekend
2013
as Duncan Dungy
Mary
2005
as Tony Childress / Jesus
Birdy
1984
as Birdy
Fluke
1995
as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
Speed Kills
2018
as George Bush
Streamers
1983
as Billy
And the Band Played On
1993
as Dr. Don Francis
Memphis Belle
1990
as Dennis Dearborn
Overnight
2003
as Self
Backtrace
2018
as MacDonald
Redeemer
2002
as Paul Freeman
Bamboozled
2000
as Himself
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021
as Karl Buttons
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
2026
as Self - Narrator
Bye Bye Love
1995
as Dave Goldman
Baby It's You
1983
as Steve
Vision Quest
1985
as Louden Swain
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997
as Sammy Ayers
Army of One
2016
as Dr. Ross
Revengeance
2016
as Sid
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
as Chip Dove / Ernst
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007
as Ben's Father
Orphans
1987
as Treat
The Confirmation
2016
as Kyle
Le Divorce
2003
as Tellman
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
as Self
The Browning Version
1994
as Frank Hunter
Little Fish, Strange Pond
2009
as Mr. Jack
Girl in Progress
2012
as Dr. Harford
The Hippopotamus
2017
as Michael Logan
Go Go Tales
2008
as Johnie Ruby
Guardians of Life
2020
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
The Real Blonde
1998
as Joe
Hard Miles
2024
as Greg Townsend
Foster Boy
2019
as Michael Trainer
Funky Monkey
2004
as Alec McCall
Very Mean Men
2000
as Bartender
Chance
2020
as Coach Mike
Equinox
1992
as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
The Lemon Sisters
1989
as Wild Bill Hamer
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2009
as Ted Binion
The Blackout
1997
as Matty
Jacob
1994
as Jakob
Miss Virginia
2019
as Congressman Cliff Williams
The Trial
2010
as Mac
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
2021
as Rick Singer
The American
1998
as Christopher Newman
Opa!
2005
as Eric
Garden of Eden
2008
as David's Father
If... Dog... Rabbit
1999
as Johnnie Cooper
The Shipment
2001
as Mitch Garrett
Flowers for Algernon
2000
as Charlie Gordon
The Winning Season
2004
as Honus Wagner
The Neighbor
2007
as Jeff
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
as Self
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
as Theodore Foster
Filmworker
2018
as Self
Wind
1992
as Will Parker
Gross Anatomy
1989
as Joe Slovak
In the Shadows
2001
as Eric
Merry Xmas
2015
as Abe
The Maker
1997
as Walter Schmeiss
The Splendid Thing
as Declan King
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
as Self
PoliWood
2009
as Self
Mrs. Soffel
1984
as Jack Biddle
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998
as Self
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011
as Self
Hollywood North
2004
as Bobby Myers
Jesus Was a Commie
2011
as Himself
Nobody's Baby
2001
as Sonny
Against the Current
2021
as Narrator
Kubrick Remembered
2014
as Self
Mulberry St.
2010
as Self
My Love Affair with Marriage
2023
as Bo (voice)
Altar
2014
as Alec
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
as Self
Kettle of Fish
2006
as Mel
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008
as Narrator (voice)
Surviving the Dust Bowl
1998
as Lawrence Svobida (voice)
Odyssey in Rome
2005
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993
as Self
Amy and the Angel
1982
as Randy
World Birth Day
2002
as Self - Narrator(voice)
The Brainwashing of My Dad
2015
as Himself - Narrator
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016
as Bob Riley
Ecce Pirate
1997
as Narrator
The Green Fog
2018
I Think I Thought
2008
as Joe
Guests
2014
as Theodore Foster
The Gamble
1988
as Francesco Sacredo
The Martini Shot
2023
as Steve
CAT. 8
2013
as Dr. Michael Ranger
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2023
as Narrator (voice)
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
2014
as Self
The Tree
1993
as Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
Cowboy
2008
as Cowboy
About Matthew Modine
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), Shor… With 140 credits spanning from 1951 to 2027, Matthew Modine has appeared in 117 films and 23 TV shows.
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- Oppenheimer (2023) — as Vannevar Bush
- Protector (2026) — as Colonel Joseph Lavelle
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012) — as Foley
- Full Metal Jacket (1987) — as Pvt. Joker
- Notting Hill (1999) — as Actor (uncredited)
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