Matthew Modine
- Acting
- March 22, 1959 · Loma Linda, California, USA
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
Filmography
- Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
- Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure · Self
- Protector · Colonel Joseph Lavelle, Executive producer
- The Better Sister · Bill Braddock
- Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow · Self
- Zero Day · Richard Dreyer
- I Hope This Helps! · Executive producer
- Hard Miles · Greg Townsend
- Retribution · Anders Muller
- I Am What You Imagine · Writer, Director
- Oppenheimer · Vannevar Bush
- The Martini Shot · Steve
- My Love Affair with Marriage · Bo (Voice), Executive producer
- 100 Years of Warner Bros. · Self
- Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations · Narrator (Voice)
- Downwind · Producer
- The Fuse · Executive producer
- Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal · Rick Singer
- Against the Current · Narrator, Writer
- 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 · Thanks
- Backtrace · MacDonald
- Speed Kills · George Bush
- Sicario: Day of the Soldado · Secretary of Defense James Riley
- Filmworker · Self
- The Green Fog
- 47 Meters Down · Taylor
- The Hippopotamus · Michael Logan
- How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents · Bob Riley
- Army of One · Dr. Ross
- Revengeance · Sid, Executive producer
- Stranger Things · Dr. Martin Brenner, Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)
- Super Sex · Director, Producer
- The Confirmation · Kyle
- Last Days of Coney Island · Executive producer
- Unity · Narrator (Voice)
- The Brainwashing of My Dad · Self, Producer
- Proof · Ivan Turing
- Merry Xmas · Abe, Writer
- The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards · Theodore Foster
- Altar · Alec
- Kubrick Remembered · Self
- Guests · Theodore Foster
- How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire · Self
- 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
- The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project · Director, Writer
- Adventures in Plymptoons! · Self
- Jesus Was a Commie · Self, Director
- The Trial · Mac, Producer
- Mulberry St. · Self
- Little Fish, Strange Pond · Mr. Jack, Executive producer
- Sex and Lies in Sin City · Ted Binion
- PoliWood · Self
- Santa: The Fascist Years · Narrator (Voice)
- Garden of Eden · David's Father
- Go Go Tales · Johnie Ruby
- Cowboy · Cowboy, Writer
- I Think I Thought · Joe, Writer
- The Neighbor · Jeff
- Have Dreams, Will Travel · Ben's Father
- Kettle of Fish · Mel, Executive producer
- The Bedford Diaries · Jake Macklin
- Mary · Tony Childress / Jesus
- Opa! · Eric
- Odyssey in Rome
- Weeds · Sullivan Groff
- Transporter 2 · Jefferson Billings