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