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

Full Metal Jacket

19878.1

Notting Hill

19997.3

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

20186.9

Transporter 2

20056.3

Wrong Turn

20216.0

Retribution

20236.5

47 Meters Down

20175.8

Any Given Sunday

19996.8

Cutthroat Island

19955.8

Private School

19835.7

Jobs

20136.1

Pacific Heights

19906.3

Backtrace

20185.0

Short Cuts

19937.2

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

2027

Married to the Mob

19886.0

Le Divorce

20034.9

Breaking News in Yuba County

20215.9

Speed Kills

20185.4

Family Weekend

20136.3

Too Big to Fail

20116.9

Vision Quest

19856.4

Fluke

19957.1

Birdy

19847.1

Memphis Belle

19906.7

Baby It's You

19836.0

The Trial

20105.8

Overnight

20036.3

Mrs. Soffel

19846.0

Mary

20055.7

Army of One

20165.2

And the Band Played On

19936.5

Bamboozled

20006.3

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

20017.4

The Hotel New Hampshire

19845.7

Go Go Tales

20085.7

Wind

19926.2

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

20196.5

Jacob

19946.7

Foster Boy

20196.7

The Real Blonde

19985.3

Unity

20157.5

Funky Monkey

20046.2

Streamers

19835.7

Bye Bye Love

19956.0

The Neighbor

20075.2

Little Fish, Strange Pond

20093.7

Hard Miles

20246.8

In the Shadows

20015.3

The Confirmation

20166.4

Gross Anatomy

19895.7

Girl in Progress

20125.6

Chance

20205.7

The Blackout

19975.8

Flowers for Algernon

20005.7

Opa!

20056.0

The Martini Shot

20236.5

Orphans

19875.7

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

20216.8

Redeemer

20027.1

Sex and Lies in Sin City

20093.4

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

20154.8

Have Dreams, Will Travel

20077.6

Surviving the Dust Bowl

19989.0

What the Deaf Man Heard

19976.4

The Hippopotamus

20176.4

The Browning Version

19946.4

Nobody's Baby

20015.2

Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow

20257.4

Revengeance

20165.5

Merry Xmas

20157.0

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman

19987.7

My Love Affair with Marriage

20235.4

Very Mean Men

20005.3

Miss Virginia

20197.8

The Winning Season

20046.3

Garden of Eden

20084.7

The Maker

19975.3

PoliWood

20096.5

Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure

2026

Equinox

19925.7

Odyssey in Rome

20057.0

The Shipment

20015.1

The Gamble

19883.4

The Lemon Sisters

19895.1

Altar

20144.9

Adventures in Plymptoons!

20112.0

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

19938.0

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

2026

Guardians of Life

20205.5

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents

20166.8

Kettle of Fish

20064.7

Hollywood North

20045.1

Filmworker

20187.1

If... Dog... Rabbit

19994.5

World Birth Day

2002

The Green Fog

20186.1

Mulberry St.

20106.0

The American

19985.4

The Splendid Thing

2026

Against the Current

2021

Amy and the Angel

19826.7

Kubrick Remembered

20146.3

Jesus Was a Commie

2011

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life

2026

The Brainwashing of My Dad

20156.3

Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations

20234.3

Santa: The Fascist Years

20085.6

Ecce Pirate

19978.0

I Think I Thought

2008

Guests

20146.0

The Tree

19934.0

How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire

201410.0

Cowboy

20085.0

CAT. 8

2013