Matthew Modine
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
137
Gender
Male
Birthday
1959-03-22 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Loma Linda, California, USA
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.
Known For
Stranger Things
Stranger Things
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Simpsons
Saturday Night Live
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The West Wing
Weeds
Oppenheimer
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tony Danza Show
The Dark Knight Rises
The Better Sister
Full Metal Jacket
Opa!
Wind
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Kubrick Remembered
The Neighbor
Zero Day
Orphans
Mrs. Soffel
Mary
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Bamboozled
Chance
Notting Hill
Hollywood North
Pacific Heights
Jacob
Streamers
Altar
Family Weekend
Wrong Turn
Baby It's You
Transporter 2
Into the West
Redeemer
Foster Boy
Private School
Funky Monkey
Bye Bye Love
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Lo + plus
So Graham Norton
Equinox
Protector
Retribution
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Very Mean Men
47 Meters Down
Hard Miles
Any Given Sunday
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Jobs
The Real Blonde
In the Shadows
Short Cuts
Overnight
Cutthroat Island
Cowboy
Santa: The Fascist Years
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Mulberry St.
Fluke
Married to the Mob
Birdy
Too Big to Fail
Memphis Belle
Backtrace
CAT. 8
Guardians of Life
Vision Quest
Le Divorce
The Bedford Diaries
Proof
Breaking News in Yuba County
And the Band Played On
The Hotel New Hampshire
The Flying House
Unity
The Confirmation
Revengeance
The Blackout
Speed Kills
Have Dreams, Will Travel
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Army of One
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
The Hippopotamus
Merry Xmas
American Cinema
Flowers for Algernon
Go Go Tales
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Little Fish, Strange Pond
My Love Affair with Marriage
Gross Anatomy
Girl in Progress
The Browning Version
Filmworker
The Gamble
PoliWood
Sex and Lies in Sin City
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
The Trial
Garden of Eden
Kettle of Fish
The Maker
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
What the Deaf Man Heard
Nobody's Baby
Miss Virginia
The Lemon Sisters
If... Dog... Rabbit
Amy and the Angel
Adventures in Plymptoons!
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
I Think I Thought
Odyssey in Rome
The Shipment
The American
The Martini Shot
Guests
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Ecce Pirate
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
The Winning Season
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Against the Current
Jesus Was a Commie
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
The Tree
The Brainwashing of My Dad
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
World Birth Day
