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.
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Movies (129)
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027 · General Fulton
Never Give Up!
2026 · Executive Producer
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
2026 · Self - Narrator
Instinto implacable
2026 · Colonel Joseph Lavelle, Executive Producer
Detrás del telón de Stranger Things: The First Shadow
2025 · Self - 'Stranger Things' Dr Brenner
I Hope This Helps!
2024 · Executive Producer
La Gran Travesía
2024 · Greg Townsend
Contrarreloj
2023 · Anders Muller
I Am What You Imagine
2023 · Director, Writer
Oppenheimer
2023 · Vannevar Bush
The Martini Shot
2023 · Steve
My Love Affair with Marriage
2023 · Bo (voice), Executive Producer
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2023 · Narrator (voice)
Downwind
2023 · Producer
The Fuse
2022 · Executive Producer
Operación Varsity Blues: Fraude universitario en EE. UU.
2021 · Rick Singer
Against the Current
2021 · Narrator, Writer
Últimas noticias en Yuba County
2021 · Karl Buttons
Camino hacia el terror: La Fundación
2021 · Scott Shaw
Chance
2020 · Coach Mike
Guardians of Life
2020
Miss Virginia
2019 · Congressman Cliff Williams
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019 · Self
Abuso de Poder
2019 · Michael Trainer
Red Ink
2019 · Thanks
Amnesia
2018 · MacDonald
Velocidad Mortal
2018 · George Bush
Sicario: El Día Del Soldado
2018 · Secretary of Defense James Riley
Filmworker
2018 · Self
The Green Fog
2018
Terror a 47 metros
2017 · Taylor
The Hippopotamus
2017 · Michael Logan
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016 · Bob Riley
Army of One
2016 · Dr. Ross
Revengeance
2016 · Sid, Executive Producer
Super Sex
2016 · Director, Producer, Writer
Fin de semana
2016 · Kyle
Last Days of Coney Island
2015 · Executive Producer
Unity
2015 · Narrator (voice)
The Brainwashing of My Dad
2015 · Himself - Narrator, Producer
Merry Xmas
2015 · Abe, Writer
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015 · Theodore Foster
Altar
2014 · Alec
Kubrick Remembered
2014 · Self
Guests
2014 · Theodore Foster
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
2014 · Self
JOBS: La Vida De Steve Jobs
2013 · John Sculley
CAT. 8
2013 · Dr. Michael Ranger
Fin de semana familiar
2013 · Duncan Dungy
Batman: El caballero de la noche asciende
2012 · Foley
Educando a mamá
2012 · Dr. Harford
Malas noticias
2011 · John Thain
The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project
2011 · Writer, Director
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011 · Self
Jesus Was a Commie
2011 · Himself, Executive Producer, Director, Writer
The Trial
2010 · Mac, Producer
Mulberry St.
2010 · Self
Falsos Amigos
2009 · Mr. Jack, Executive Producer
Sexo y mentiras en Sin City: El escándalo sobre Ted Binion
2009 · Ted Binion
PoliWood
2009 · Self
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008 · Narrator (voice)
Garden of Eden
2008 · David's Father
Go Go Tales
2008 · Johnie Ruby
Cowboy
2008 · Cowboy, Writer, Director
I Think I Thought
2008 · Joe, Writer, Director, Producer
The Neighbor
2007 · Jeff
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007 · Ben's Father
Kettle of Fish
2006 · Mel, Executive Producer
Mary
2005 · Tony Childress / Jesus
Opa!
2005 · Eric
Odyssey in Rome
2005
El Transportador 2
2005 · Jefferson Billings
Funky Monkey
2004 · Alec McCall
The Winning Season
2004 · Honus Wagner
Hollywood North
2004 · Bobby Myers
Divorcio a la Francesa
2003 · Tellman
Overnight
2003 · Self
Redeemer
2002 · Paul Freeman
World Birth Day
2002 · Self - Narrator(voice)
The Shipment
2001 · Mitch Garrett
In the Shadows
2001 · Eric
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
2001 · Self
Nobody's Baby
2001 · Sonny
Bamboozled
2000 · Himself
Very Mean Men
2000 · Bartender
Flowers for Algernon
2000 · Charlie Gordon
Any Given Sunday
1999 · Dr. Ollie Powers
If... Dog... Rabbit
1999 · Johnnie Cooper, Director, Writer
Un lugar llamado Notting Hill
1999 · Actor (uncredited)
The American
1998 · Christopher Newman
Surviving the Dust Bowl
1998 · Lawrence Svobida (voice)
The Real Blonde
1998 · Joe
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998 · Self
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997 · Sammy Ayers
The Maker
1997 · Walter Schmeiss
The Blackout
1997 · Matty
Ecce Pirate
1997 · Narrator, Director, Set Decoration, Writer, Post Production Coordinator, Costume Supervisor, Producer, Casting, Camera Operator, Cinematography, Music Supervisor, Supervising Sound Editor
La Pirata: La Isla de las Cabezas Cortadas
1995 · William Shaw
Mi amigo Fluke
1995 · Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
Bye Bye Love
1995 · Dave Goldman
La Biblia: Jacob
1994 · Jakob
The Browning Version
1994 · Frank Hunter
Short Cuts
1993 · Dr. Ralph Wyman
Y la Banda Siguió Tocando
1993 · Dr. Don Francis
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993 · Self
The Tree
1993 · Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
When I Was a Boy
1993 · Editor, Casting, Art Direction, Music Supervisor, Writer, Director, Producer
Equinox
1992 · Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
Wind
1992 · Will Parker
El inquilino
1990 · Drake Goodman
Memphis Belle
1990 · Dennis Dearborn
The Lemon Sisters
1989 · Wild Bill Hamer
Gross Anatomy
1989 · Joe Slovak
The Gamble
1988 · Francesco Sacredo
Married to the Mob
1988 · Mike Downey
Orphans
1987 · Treat
Full Metal Jacket
1987 · Pvt. Joker
Vision Quest
1985 · Louden Swain
Mrs. Soffel
1984 · Jack Biddle
Birdy
1984 · Birdy
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984 · Chip Dove / Ernst
Streamers
1983 · Billy
Private School
1983 · Jim Green
Baby It's You
1983 · Steve
Amy and the Angel
1982 · Randy
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
· Self
Kubrick's War: The Making of Full Metal Jacket
· Self - Pvt. Joker, Full Metal Jacket, Producer
The Splendid Thing
· Declan King, Director, Screenplay
Keepers of the Wild
· Executive Producer
TV shows (23)
The Better Sister
2025 · Bill Braddock
Zero Day
2025 · Richard Dreyer
100 Años de Warner Bros.
2023 · Self
Stranger Things
2016 · Dr. Martin Brenner, Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)
Proof
2015 · Ivan Turing
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self
CAT. 8
2013 · Dr. Michael Ranger
The Bedford Diaries
2006 · Jake Macklin
Weeds
2005 · Sullivan Groff
Camino Hacia El Oeste
2005 · Samson Wheeler
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Self - Guest
Hitler: El reinado del mal
2003 · Fritz Gerlich
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001 · Jack Robinson
The West Wing
1999 · Marco Arlens
La Ley y el Orden: Unidad de Víctimas Especiales
1999 · Gordon Rickett
So Graham Norton
1998 · Self - Guest
Lo + plus
1995 · Self - Guest
American Cinema
1994 · Self
Los Simpson
1989 · Dr. Stern (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self - Guest
American Playhouse
1982 · Eugene O'Neill
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Sammy Ayers