Matthew Modine

Born: 1959-03-22 in Лома-Линда, Калифорния, США

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2027

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

2026

Protector as Colonel Joseph Lavelle

2025

Zero Day as Richard Dreyer
The Better Sister as Bill Braddock

2024

Hard Miles as Greg Townsend
I Hope This Helps! ... (Executive Producer)

2023

Oppenheimer as Vannevar Bush
Retribution as Anders Muller
My Love Affair with Marriage as Bo (voice)
The Martini Shot as Steve
100 Years of Warner Bros. as Self
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations as Narrator (voice)
Downwind ... (Producer)
I Am What You Imagine ... (Writer)

2022

The Fuse ... (Executive Producer)

2021

Wrong Turn as Scott Shaw
Breaking News in Yuba County as Karl Buttons
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal as Rick Singer
Against the Current as Narrator

2020

Chance as Coach Mike
Guardians of Life

2019

Foster Boy as Michael Trainer
Miss Virginia as Congressman Cliff Williams
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
Red Ink ... (Thanks)

2018

Sicario: Day of the Soldado as Secretary of Defense James Riley
Filmworker as Self
Backtrace as MacDonald
Speed Kills as George Bush

2017

47 Meters Down as Taylor
The Hippopotamus as Michael Logan

2016

Stranger Things as Martin Brenner
The Confirmation as Kyle
Army of One as Dr. Ross
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents as Bob Riley
Super Sex ... (Director)
Revengeance as Sid

2015

Unity as Narrator (voice)
The Brainwashing of My Dad as Himself - Narrator
Proof as Ivan Turing
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards as Theodore Foster
Last Days of Coney Island ... (Executive Producer)
Merry Xmas as Abe

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
Altar as Alec
Kubrick Remembered as Self
Guests as Theodore Foster
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire as Self

2013

Family Weekend as Duncan Dungy
Jobs as John Sculley
CAT. 8 as Dr. Michael Ranger

2008

Cowboy as Cowboy
Garden of Eden as David's Father
Santa: The Fascist Years as Narrator (voice)
I Think I Thought as Joe

2007

The Neighbor as Jeff
Have Dreams, Will Travel as Ben's Father
Go Go Tales as Johnie Ruby

2006

Kettle of Fish as Mel
The Bedford Diaries as Jake Macklin

2005

Weeds as Sullivan Groff
Opa! as Eric
Transporter 2 as Jefferson Billings
Mary as Tony Childress / Jesus
Into the West as Samson Wheeler
Odyssey in Rome

2004

The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
Hollywood North as Bobby Myers
Funky Monkey as Alec McCall
The Winning Season as Honus Wagner

2003

Le Divorce as Tellman
Hitler: The Rise of Evil as Fritz Gerlich
Overnight as Self

2002

Redeemer as Paul Freeman

2001

In the Shadows as Eric
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures as Self
Nobody's Baby as Sonny
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story as Jack Robinson
The Shipment as Mitch Garrett

2000

Bamboozled as Himself
Flowers for Algernon as Charlie Gordon
Very Mean Men as Bartender

1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Gordon Rickett
The West Wing as Marco Arlens
Notting Hill as Actor (uncredited)
Any Given Sunday as Dr. Ollie Powers
If... Dog... Rabbit as Johnnie Cooper

1998

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman as Self
So Graham Norton as Self - Guest
The American as Christopher Newman
The Real Blonde as Joe
Surviving the Dust Bowl as Lawrence Svobida (voice)

1997

The Blackout as Matty
The Maker as Walter Schmeiss
What the Deaf Man Heard as Sammy Ayers
Ecce Pirate as Narrator

1995

Fluke as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
Lo + plus as Self - Guest
Cutthroat Island as William Shaw
Bye Bye Love as Dave Goldman

1994

Jacob as Jakob
The Browning Version as Frank Hunter
American Cinema as Self

1993

The Tree as Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
Short Cuts as Dr. Ralph Wyman
And the Band Played On as Dr. Don Francis
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country as Self
When I Was a Boy ... (Producer)

1992

Wind as Will Parker
Equinox as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace

1990

Memphis Belle as Dennis Dearborn
Pacific Heights as Drake Goodman

1989

The Simpsons as Dr. Stern (voice)
Gross Anatomy as Joe Slovak
The Lemon Sisters as Wild Bill Hamer

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
The Gamble as Francesco Sacredo
Married to the Mob as Mike Downey

1987

Full Metal Jacket as Pvt. Joker
Orphans as Treat

1985

Vision Quest as Louden Swain

1984

Birdy as Birdy
Mrs. Soffel as Jack Biddle
The Hotel New Hampshire as Chip Dove / Ernst

1983

Private School as Jim Green
Streamers as Billy
Baby It's You as Steve

1982

Amy and the Angel as Randy

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sammy Ayers