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