Matthew Modine
Acting
🎂 1959-03-22
Matthew Avery Modine 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.
Cast credits(132)
Gordon Rickett
1999
Martin Brenner
2016
Self
2014
Marco Arlens
1999
Self - Host
1975
Vannevar Bush
2023
Foley
2012
Sullivan Groff
2005
Bill Braddock
2025
Self - Guest
1988
Self - Guest
2004
Richard Dreyer
2025
Secretary of Defense James Riley
2018
Pvt. Joker
1987
Actor (uncredited)
1999
Scott Shaw
2021
Self - Guest
1995
Jefferson Billings
2005
Dr. Ollie Powers
1999
Anders Muller
2023
Taylor
2017
Fritz Gerlich
2003
Self
2023
Self - Guest
1998
Samson Wheeler
2005
Jack Robinson
2001
Dr. Ralph Wyman
1993
Birdy
1984
John Thain
2011
William Shaw
1995
Dr. Ross
2016
Drake Goodman
1990
Jim Green
1983
Self
2019
Karl Buttons
2021
Mr. Jack
2009
Honus Wagner
2004
John Sculley
2013
Dennis Dearborn
1990
MacDonald
2018
Louden Swain
1985
Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
1995
Dr. Michael Ranger
2013
Theodore Foster
2014
Chip Dove / Ernst
1984
Johnie Ruby
2007
Dr. Don Francis
1993
Mike Downey
1988
Theodore Foster
2015
Tellman
2003
Will Parker
1992
Kyle
2016
Narrator (voice)
2015
Jack Biddle
1984
Bob Riley
2016
Jakob
1994
Sammy Ayers
1951
2027
Mel
2006
Himself
2000
Randy
1982
Duncan Dungy
2013
Ben's Father
2007
Michael Trainer
2019
Rick Singer
2021
Michael Logan
2017
Ivan Turing
2015
Greg Townsend
2024
Alec
2014
Steve
1983
Self
2001
Matty
1997
Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
1992
Dr. Harford
2012
Paul Freeman
2002
Self
2003
Sammy Ayers
1997
Eric
2001
Dave Goldman
1995
Self
1993
Johnnie Cooper
1999
Joe Slovak
1989
Self
2014
Narrator (voice)
2023
George Bush
2018
Self
1998
Bo (voice)
2023
Jake Macklin
2006
Mitch Garrett
2001
Charlie Gordon
2000
Alec McCall
2004
David's Father
2008
Self
2009
Eric
2005
Steve
2023
Coach Mike
2020
Billy
1983
Walter Schmeiss
1997
Congressman Cliff Williams
2019
Jeff
2007
Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
1993
Mac
2010
Francesco Sacredo
1988
Tony Childress / Jesus
2005
Christopher Newman
1998
Wild Bill Hamer
1989
Frank Hunter
1994
Self
2018
2026
Sonny
2001
Joe
1998
Self
Lawrence Svobida (voice)
1998
Bobby Myers
2004
2020
Ted Binion
2008
Treat
1987
Abe
2015
Self
2011
Himself - Narrator
2015
Bartender
2000
Self
2010
Sid
2016
Narrator
1995
Himself
2014
Narrator
2021
2005
Narrator (voice)
2008
Himself
2011
Cowboy
2008
Narrator
1997
Joe
2008
Production (19)
Executive Producer
2009
Executive Producer
2006
Executive Producer
2023
Producer
2016
Producer
2010
Producer
2023
Executive Producer
2015
Producer
2015
Executive Producer
2016
Executive Producer
2022
Executive Producer
2011
Producer
1997
Post Production Coordinator
1997
Casting
1997
Producer
1993
Casting
1993
Producer
2008
Executive Producer
2024
Executive Producer
