Matthew Modine

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

133

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

  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

  • Stranger Things

    Stranger Things

  • Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

  • Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

  • The West Wing

    The West Wing

  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

  • Weeds

    Weeds

  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer

  • The Dark Knight Rises

    The Dark Knight Rises

  • The Better Sister

    The Better Sister

  • The Tony Danza Show

    The Tony Danza Show

  • Notting Hill

    Notting Hill

  • Transporter 2

    Transporter 2

  • Zero Day

    Zero Day

  • Full Metal Jacket

    Full Metal Jacket

  • Sicario: Day of the Soldado

    Sicario: Day of the Soldado

  • Lo + plus

    Lo + plus

  • Wrong Turn

    Wrong Turn

  • Hitler: The Rise of Evil

    Hitler: The Rise of Evil

  • Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

    Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

  • The Winning Season

    The Winning Season

  • So Graham Norton

    So Graham Norton

  • Vision Quest

    Vision Quest

  • Cutthroat Island

    Cutthroat Island

  • Memphis Belle

    Memphis Belle

  • Retribution

    Retribution

  • Into the West

    Into the West

  • 100 Years of Warner Bros.

    100 Years of Warner Bros.

  • The Lemon Sisters

    The Lemon Sisters

  • Any Given Sunday

    Any Given Sunday

  • Jobs

    Jobs

  • The Martini Shot

    The Martini Shot

  • Private School

    Private School

  • Altar

    Altar

  • Fluke

    Fluke

  • Army of One

    Army of One

  • Little Fish, Strange Pond

    Little Fish, Strange Pond

  • Flowers for Algernon

    Flowers for Algernon

  • Unity

    Unity

  • Birdy

    Birdy

  • The Tree

    The Tree

  • Wind

    Wind

  • Opa!

    Opa!

  • Filmworker

    Filmworker

  • And the Band Played On

    And the Band Played On

  • Mrs. Soffel

    Mrs. Soffel

  • Backtrace

    Backtrace

  • Protector

    Protector

  • Speed Kills

    Speed Kills

  • The Blackout

    The Blackout

  • Bye Bye Love

    Bye Bye Love

  • The Browning Version

    The Browning Version

  • Have Dreams, Will Travel

    Have Dreams, Will Travel

  • Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

    Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

  • Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations

    Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations

  • What the Deaf Man Heard

    What the Deaf Man Heard

  • Mulberry St.

    Mulberry St.

  • Short Cuts

    Short Cuts

  • 47 Meters Down

    47 Meters Down

  • Garden of Eden

    Garden of Eden

  • The Brainwashing of My Dad

    The Brainwashing of My Dad

  • Hard Miles

    Hard Miles

  • In the Shadows

    In the Shadows

  • My Love Affair with Marriage

    My Love Affair with Marriage

  • Too Big to Fail

    Too Big to Fail

  • Nobody's Baby

    Nobody's Baby

  • The Bedford Diaries

    The Bedford Diaries

  • The Hippopotamus

    The Hippopotamus

  • Foster Boy

    Foster Boy

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • Kubrick Remembered

    Kubrick Remembered

  • Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

    Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

  • Gross Anatomy

    Gross Anatomy

  • Hollywood North

    Hollywood North

  • Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

    Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

  • Pacific Heights

    Pacific Heights

  • Breaking News in Yuba County

    Breaking News in Yuba County

  • Family Weekend

    Family Weekend

  • The Confirmation

    The Confirmation

  • If... Dog... Rabbit

    If... Dog... Rabbit

  • PoliWood

    PoliWood

  • Guardians of Life

    Guardians of Life

  • Cowboy

    Cowboy

  • Married to the Mob

    Married to the Mob

  • Adventures in Plymptoons!

    Adventures in Plymptoons!

  • Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life

    Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life

  • Orphans

    Orphans

  • Equinox

    Equinox

  • CAT. 8

    CAT. 8

  • Streamers

    Streamers

  • Jacob

    Jacob

  • Girl in Progress

    Girl in Progress

  • The Trial

    The Trial

  • Bamboozled

    Bamboozled

  • The Neighbor

    The Neighbor

  • Mary

    Mary

  • Proof

    Proof

  • The American

    The American

  • The Hotel New Hampshire

    The Hotel New Hampshire

  • Baby It's You

    Baby It's You

  • Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

    Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

  • Funky Monkey

    Funky Monkey

  • Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman

    Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman

  • Very Mean Men

    Very Mean Men

  • The Gamble

    The Gamble

  • Chance

    Chance

  • The Maker

    The Maker

  • Go Go Tales

    Go Go Tales

  • Kettle of Fish

    Kettle of Fish

  • Santa: The Fascist Years

    Santa: The Fascist Years

  • The Flying House

    The Flying House

  • Overnight

    Overnight

  • The Real Blonde

    The Real Blonde

  • Redeemer

    Redeemer

  • Le Divorce

    Le Divorce

  • The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

    The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

  • The Shipment

    The Shipment

  • Amy and the Angel

    Amy and the Angel

  • Odyssey in Rome

    Odyssey in Rome

  • Guests

    Guests

  • Miss Virginia

    Miss Virginia

  • Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

    Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

  • Sex and Lies in Sin City

    Sex and Lies in Sin City

  • How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents

    How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents

  • Ecce Pirate

    Ecce Pirate

  • How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire

    How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire

  • Revengeance

    Revengeance

  • American Cinema

    American Cinema

  • Jesus Was a Commie

    Jesus Was a Commie

  • Merry Xmas

    Merry Xmas

  • Against the Current

    Against the Current

  • Surviving the Dust Bowl

    Surviving the Dust Bowl

  • I Think I Thought

    I Think I Thought