Matthew Modine
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 22, 1959 (age 67)
- Place of birth
- Loma Linda, California, USA
- Credits
- 141
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
The Dark Knight Rises
2012Movie
Foley
Stranger Things
2016TV
Dr. Martin Brenner, Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)
Oppenheimer
2023Movie
Vannevar Bush
Full Metal Jacket
1987Movie
Pvt. Joker
The Simpsons
1989TV
Dr. Stern (voice)
Notting Hill
1999Movie
Actor (uncredited)
Filmography
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027Movie
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
2026Movie
Self - Narrator
Protector
2026Movie
Colonel Joseph Lavelle
The Better Sister
2025TV
Bill Braddock
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
2025Movie
Self - 'Stranger Things' Dr Brenner
Zero Day
2025TV
Richard Dreyer
Hard Miles
2024Movie
Greg Townsend
Retribution
2023Movie
Anders Muller
Oppenheimer
2023Movie
Vannevar Bush
The Martini Shot
2023Movie
Steve
My Love Affair with Marriage
2023Movie
Bo (voice)
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023TV
Self
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2023Movie
Narrator (voice)
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
2021Movie
Rick Singer
Against the Current
2021Movie
Narrator
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021Movie
Karl Buttons
Wrong Turn
2021Movie
Scott Shaw
Chance
2020Movie
Coach Mike
Guardians of Life
2020Movie
Miss Virginia
2019Movie
Congressman Cliff Williams
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019Movie
Self
Foster Boy
2019Movie
Michael Trainer
Backtrace
2018Movie
MacDonald
Speed Kills
2018Movie
George Bush
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018Movie
Secretary of Defense James Riley
Filmworker
2018Movie
Self
The Green Fog
2018Movie
47 Meters Down
2017Movie
Taylor
The Hippopotamus
2017Movie
Michael Logan
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016Movie
Bob Riley
Army of One
2016Movie
Dr. Ross
Revengeance
2016Movie
Sid
Stranger Things
2016TV
Dr. Martin Brenner, Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)
The Confirmation
2016Movie
Kyle
Unity
2015Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Brainwashing of My Dad
2015Movie
Himself - Narrator
Proof
2015TV
Ivan Turing
Merry Xmas
2015Movie
Abe
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015Movie
Theodore Foster
Altar
2014Movie
Alec
Kubrick Remembered
2014Movie
Self
Guests
2014Movie
Theodore Foster
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
2014Movie
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014TV
Self
Jobs
2013Movie
John Sculley
CAT. 8
2013Movie
Dr. Michael Ranger
Family Weekend
2013Movie
Duncan Dungy
CAT. 8
2013TV
Dr. Michael Ranger
The Dark Knight Rises
2012Movie
Foley
Girl in Progress
2012Movie
Dr. Harford
Too Big to Fail
2011Movie
John Thain
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011Movie
Self
Jesus Was a Commie
2011Movie
Himself
The Trial
2010Movie
Mac
Mulberry St.
2010Movie
Self
Little Fish, Strange Pond
2009Movie
Mr. Jack
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2009Movie
Ted Binion
PoliWood
2009Movie
Self
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008Movie
Narrator (voice)
Garden of Eden
2008Movie
David's Father
Go Go Tales
2008Movie
Johnie Ruby
Cowboy
2008Movie
Cowboy
I Think I Thought
2008Movie
Joe
The Neighbor
2007Movie
Jeff
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007Movie
Ben's Father
Kettle of Fish
2006Movie
Mel
The Bedford Diaries
2006TV
Jake Macklin
Mary
2005Movie
Tony Childress / Jesus
Opa!
2005Movie
Eric
Odyssey in Rome
2005Movie
Weeds
2005TV
Sullivan Groff
Transporter 2
2005Movie
Jefferson Billings
Into the West
2005TV
Samson Wheeler
Funky Monkey
2004Movie
Alec McCall
The Tony Danza Show
2004TV
Self - Guest
The Winning Season
2004Movie
Honus Wagner
Hollywood North
2004Movie
Bobby Myers
Le Divorce
2003Movie
Tellman
Overnight
2003Movie
Self
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
2003TV
Fritz Gerlich
Redeemer
2002Movie
Paul Freeman
World Birth Day
2002Movie
Self - Narrator(voice)
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001TV
Jack Robinson
The Shipment
2001Movie
Mitch Garrett
In the Shadows
2001Movie
Eric
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
2001Movie
Self
Nobody's Baby
2001Movie
Sonny
Bamboozled
2000Movie
Himself
Very Mean Men
2000Movie
Bartender
Flowers for Algernon
2000Movie
Charlie Gordon
Any Given Sunday
1999Movie
Dr. Ollie Powers
If... Dog... Rabbit
1999Movie
Johnnie Cooper
The West Wing
1999TV
Marco Arlens
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999TV
Gordon Rickett
Notting Hill
1999Movie
Actor (uncredited)
The American
1998Movie
Christopher Newman
So Graham Norton
1998TV
Self - Guest
Surviving the Dust Bowl
1998Movie
Lawrence Svobida (voice)
The Real Blonde
1998Movie
Joe
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998Movie
Self
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997Movie
Sammy Ayers
The Maker
1997Movie
Walter Schmeiss
The Blackout
1997Movie
Matty
Ecce Pirate
1997Movie
Narrator
Cutthroat Island
1995Movie
William Shaw
Fluke
1995Movie
Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
Lo + plus
1995TV
Self - Guest
Bye Bye Love
1995Movie
Dave Goldman
Jacob
1994Movie
Jakob
The Browning Version
1994Movie
Frank Hunter
American Cinema
1994TV
Self
Short Cuts
1993Movie
Dr. Ralph Wyman
And the Band Played On
1993Movie
Dr. Don Francis
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993Movie
Self
The Tree
1993Movie
Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
Equinox
1992Movie
Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
Wind
1992Movie
Will Parker
Pacific Heights
1990Movie
Drake Goodman
Memphis Belle
1990Movie
Dennis Dearborn
The Simpsons
1989TV
Dr. Stern (voice)
The Lemon Sisters
1989Movie
Wild Bill Hamer
Gross Anatomy
1989Movie
Joe Slovak
The Gamble
1988Movie
Francesco Sacredo
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988TV
Self - Guest
Married to the Mob
1988Movie
Mike Downey
Orphans
1987Movie
Treat
Full Metal Jacket
1987Movie
Pvt. Joker
Vision Quest
1985Movie
Louden Swain
Mrs. Soffel
1984Movie
Jack Biddle
Birdy
1984Movie
Birdy
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984Movie
Chip Dove / Ernst
Streamers
1983Movie
Billy
Private School
1983Movie
Jim Green
Baby It's You
1983Movie
Steve
Amy and the Angel
1982Movie
Randy
American Playhouse
1982TV
Eugene O'Neill
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Host
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Sammy Ayers
Kubrick's War: The Making of Full Metal Jacket
Movie
Self - Pvt. Joker, Full Metal Jacket
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Movie
Self
The Splendid Thing
Movie
Declan King