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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Known For
Acting
1987
asPvt. Joker
1995
asWilliam Shaw
1993
asDr. Ralph Wyman
1988
asMike Downey
1994
asJakob
1993
asDr. Don Francis
1990
asDrake Goodman
1982
asRandy
1995
asThomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
1985
asLouden Swain
1984
asBirdy
1995
asDave Goldman
2008
asTed Binion
2008
asDavid's Father
1987
asTreat
1984
asJack Biddle
1997
asMatty
1999
asDr. Ollie Powers
2005
asJefferson Billings
1990
asDennis Dearborn
2001
asEric
2000
asCharlie Gordon
1992
asWill Parker
1998
asJoe
2007
asBen's Father
2004
asAlec McCall
2006
asMel
2005
asTony Childress / Jesus
2011
asJohn Thain
2007
asJeff
1989
asJoe Slovak
2012
asFoley
1983
asBilly
2010
asMac
2001
asSonny
1983
asJim Green
1994
asFrank Hunter
2009
asMr. Jack
2023
asNarrator (voice)
2007
asJohnie Ruby
2012
asDr. Harford
2004
asBobby Myers
1997
asWalter Schmeiss
1997
asSammy Ayers
2005
asEric
2004
asHonus Wagner
2001
asMitch Garrett
2023
asAnders Muller
1992
asHenry Petosa / Freddy Ace
2013
asJohn Sculley
2013
asDuncan Dungy
2008
asCowboy
2002
asPaul Freeman
1999
asJohnnie Cooper
2023
asSteve
2010
asSelf
1983
asSteve
2024
asGreg Townsend
2014
asHimself
1988
asFrancesco Sacredo
2021
asNarrator
2023
asVannevar Bush
2011
asHimself
2014
asAlec
1998
asSelf
2005
as
2015
asNarrator (voice)
2015
asTheodore Foster
2014
asTheodore Foster
2016
asKyle
2017
asTaylor
2015
asHimself - Narrator
2017
asMichael Logan
2011
asHimself
2016
asBob Riley
2000
asHimself
2008
asJoe
2000
asBartender
2003
asSelf
2008
asNarrator (voice)
2018
asSecretary of Defense James Riley
1998
asChristopher Newman
2018
asMacDonald
2004
asJeff
2018
asGeorge Bush
2001
asSelf
2018
asSelf
2023
asBo (voice)
1999
asActor (uncredited)
2019
asCongressman Cliff Williams
1993
asSelf
2016
asDr. Ross
2021
asScott Shaw
2014
asSelf
2015
asAbe
2020
as
2020
asCoach Mike
1993
asBoy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
2003
asTellman
2019
asMichael Trainer
2016
asSid
2019
asSelf
1995
asNarrator
2021
asKarl Buttons
1998
asLawrence Svobida (voice)
2021
asRick Singer
1984
asChip Dove / Ernst
1989
asWild Bill Hamer
2009
asSelf
1997
asNarrator
2027
as
asSelf
as asSelf - Guest
asJake Macklin
asGordon Rickett
asSammy Ayers
asSamson Wheeler
asSelf - Guest
asSullivan Groff
asJack Robinson
asMarco Arlens
asIvan Turing
asDr. Michael Ranger
asSelf - Host
asSelf
asMartin Brenner
asFritz Gerlich
asSelf
asRichard Dreyer
asSelf - Guest
asBill Braddock
asSelf - Guest
Production
1997
as1997
as1997
as
1993
as1993
as
2022
as2015
as
2015
as
2016
as
2023
as2009
as2011
as2008
as
2024
asas 2023
as2010
as2006
as2016
asCrew
1997
as
2019
asDirecting
2008
as1997
as
2023
as1999
as1993
as2016
as2011
as2008
as2011
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