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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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1959-03-22
Place of birth
Loma Linda, California, USA
Images
Cast
Full Metal Jacket
1987
8.12
Cutthroat Island
1995
5.78
Short Cuts
1993
7.20
Married to the Mob
1988
5.90
Jacob
1994
6.54
And the Band Played On
1993
6.46
Pacific Heights
1990
6.30
Amy and the Angel
1982
5.50
Fluke
1995
7.10
Vision Quest
1985
6.36
Birdy
1984
7.14
Bye Bye Love
1995
5.90
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2008
3.41
Garden of Eden
2008
4.91
Orphans
1987
5.80
Mrs. Soffel
1984
6.05
The Blackout
1997
5.82
Any Given Sunday
1999
6.82
Transporter 2
2005
6.31
Memphis Belle
1990
6.73
In the Shadows
2001
5.09
Flowers for Algernon
2000
5.63
Wind
1992
6.20
The Real Blonde
1998
5.58
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007
7.51
Funky Monkey
2004
5.98
Kettle of Fish
2006
4.85
Mary
2005
5.73
Too Big to Fail
2011
6.97
The Neighbor
2007
5.11
Gross Anatomy
1989
5.70
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
7.79
Streamers
1983
5.90
The Trial
2010
5.70
Nobody's Baby
2001
5.21
Private School
1983
5.69
The Browning Version
1994
6.50
Little Fish, Strange Pond
2009
3.82
Go Go Tales
2007
5.70
Girl in Progress
2012
5.60
Hollywood North
2004
5.13
The Maker
1997
4.96
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997
6.26
Opa!
2005
5.70
The Winning Season
2004
5.00
The Shipment
2001
4.50
Retribution
2023
6.59
Equinox
1992
5.60
Jobs
2013
6.12
Family Weekend
2013
6.31
Cowboy
2008
5.00
Redeemer
2002
6.60
If... Dog... Rabbit
1999
3.94
The Martini Shot
2023
8.00
Mulberry St.
2010
6.00
Baby It's You
1983
5.90
Hard Miles
2024
6.66
The Gamble
1988
1.70
Against the Current
2021
0.00
Oppenheimer
2023
8.06
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011
2.00
Altar
2014
4.88
Odyssey in Rome
2005
0.00
Unity
2015
7.50
Guests
2014
6.00
The Confirmation
2016
6.40
47 Meters Down
2017
5.80
The Brainwashing of My Dad
2015
6.21
The Hippopotamus
2017
6.43
Jesus Was a Commie
2011
0.00
Bamboozled
2000
6.17
I Think I Thought
2008
0.00
Very Mean Men
2000
5.80
Overnight
2003
6.40
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008
5.60
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
6.93
The American
1998
5.80
Backtrace
2018
5.01
Mon voisin du dessus
2004
6.00
Speed Kills
2018
5.50
Filmworker
2018
7.10
My Love Affair with Marriage
2023
5.71
Notting Hill
1999
7.26
Miss Virginia
2019
8.20
Army of One
2016
5.21
Wrong Turn
2021
5.97
Kubrick Remembered
2014
6.50
Merry Xmas
2015
6.50
Guardians of Life
2020
5.30
Chance
2020
5.90
The Tree
1993
4.00
Le Divorce
2003
4.99
Foster Boy
2019
6.91
Revengeance
2016
5.70
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
6.50
American Cinema
1995
0.00
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021
5.78
Surviving the Dust Bowl
1998
0.00
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
5.62
The Lemon Sisters
1989
4.63
PoliWood
2009
6.50
Ecce Pirate
1997
0.00
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027
0.00
Protector
0.00