Matthew Modine

Acting · 3.5 popularity

Age

Movies

118

Born: March 22, 1959
From: Loma Linda, California, USA
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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.

Works

118 films

Oppenheimer

20238.0

The Dark Knight Rises

20127.8

Protector

20268.5

Notting Hill

19997.3

Full Metal Jacket

19878.1

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

20186.9

Wrong Turn

20216.0

Transporter 2

20056.3

Retribution

20236.5

Any Given Sunday

19996.8

47 Meters Down

20175.8

Cutthroat Island

19955.8

Backtrace

20185.0

Pacific Heights

19906.3

Private School

19835.7

Jobs

20136.1

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

2027

Married to the Mob

19886.0

Short Cuts

19937.2

Speed Kills

20185.4

Birdy

19847.1

Le Divorce

20034.9

Too Big to Fail

20116.9

Vision Quest

19856.4

Breaking News in Yuba County

20215.9

Family Weekend

20136.3

Fluke

19957.1

Memphis Belle

19906.7

The Trial

20105.8

Mrs. Soffel

19846.0

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

20017.4

Overnight

20036.3

Army of One

20165.2

Baby It's You

19836.0

Mary

20055.7

And the Band Played On

19936.5

Bamboozled

20006.3

The Hotel New Hampshire

19845.7

Go Go Tales

20085.7

Jacob

19946.7

Hard Miles

20246.8

Unity

20157.5

Funky Monkey

20046.2

Bye Bye Love

19956.0

The Maker

19975.3

Have Dreams, Will Travel

20077.6

Girl in Progress

20125.6

Wind

19926.2

The Neighbor

20075.2

The Real Blonde

19985.3

Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow

20257.4

Foster Boy

20196.7

Redeemer

20027.1

Gross Anatomy

19895.7

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

20216.8

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

20196.5

Streamers

19835.7

Little Fish, Strange Pond

20093.7

The Blackout

19975.8

In the Shadows

20015.3

My Love Affair with Marriage

20235.4

Orphans

19875.7

Sex and Lies in Sin City

20093.4

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman

19987.7

The Martini Shot

20236.5

The Confirmation

20166.4

The Browning Version

19946.4

PoliWood

20096.5

Flowers for Algernon

20005.7

Very Mean Men

20005.3

Surviving the Dust Bowl

19989.0

Miss Virginia

20197.8

The Hippopotamus

20176.4

What the Deaf Man Heard

19976.4

Nobody's Baby

20015.2

Merry Xmas

20157.0

Opa!

20056.0

Chance

20205.7

The Winning Season

20046.3

Kettle of Fish

20064.7

The Lemon Sisters

19895.1

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

20154.8

Revengeance

20165.5

The Green Fog

20186.1

A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket

2026

Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure

2026

The Gamble

19883.4

The American

19985.4

If... Dog... Rabbit

19994.5

Kubrick Remembered

20146.3

Adventures in Plymptoons!

20112.0

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

19938.0

The Shipment

20015.1

Odyssey in Rome

20057.0

Filmworker

20187.1

Altar

20144.9

Amy and the Angel

19826.7

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents

20166.8

Equinox

19925.7

Against the Current

2021

Garden of Eden

20084.7

Guardians of Life

20205.5

World Birth Day

2002

Hollywood North

20045.1

The Splendid Thing

2026

I Think I Thought

2008

Mulberry St.

20106.0

Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations

20234.3

Jesus Was a Commie

2011

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life

2026

The Tree

19934.0

Guests

20146.0

Santa: The Fascist Years

20085.6

The Brainwashing of My Dad

20156.3

Ecce Pirate

19978.0

How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire

201410.0

Cowboy

20085.0

CAT. 8

2013