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.
Acting (110 movies)
Full Metal Jacket
1987
Cutthroat Island
1995
Short Cuts
1993
Married to the Mob
1988
Jacob
1994
And the Band Played On
1993
Pacific Heights
1990
Amy and the Angel
1982
Fluke
1995
Vision Quest
1985
Birdy
1984
Bye Bye Love
1995
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2009
Garden of Eden
2008
Orphans
1987
Mrs. Soffel
1984
The Blackout
1997
Any Given Sunday
1999
Transporter 2
2005
Memphis Belle
1990
In the Shadows
2001
Flowers for Algernon
2000
Wind
1992
The Real Blonde
1998
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007
Funky Monkey
2004
Kettle of Fish
2006
Mary
2005
Too Big to Fail
2011
The Neighbor
2007
Gross Anatomy
1989
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
Streamers
1983
The Trial
2010
Nobody's Baby
2001
Private School
1983
The Browning Version
1994
Little Fish, Strange Pond
2009
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2023
Go Go Tales
2007
Girl in Progress
2012
Hollywood North
2004
The Maker
1997
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997
Opa!
2005
The Winning Season
2004
The Shipment
2001
Retribution
2023
Equinox
1992
Jobs
2013
Family Weekend
2013
Cowboy
2008
Redeemer
2002
If... Dog... Rabbit
1999
The Martini Shot
2023
Mulberry St.
2010
Baby It's You
1983
Hard Miles
2024
The Gamble
1988
Against the Current
2021
Oppenheimer
2023
Altar
2014
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998
Odyssey in Rome
2005
Unity
2015
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
Guests
2014
The Confirmation
2016
47 Meters Down
2017
The Brainwashing of My Dad
2015
The Hippopotamus
2017
Jesus Was a Commie
2011
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016
Bamboozled
2000
I Think I Thought
2008
Very Mean Men
2000
Overnight
2003
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
The American
1998
Backtrace
2018
Speed Kills
2018
Filmworker
2018
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
My Love Affair with Marriage
2023
Notting Hill
1999
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993
Miss Virginia
2019
Army of One
2016
Wrong Turn
2021
Kubrick Remembered
2014
Merry Xmas
2015
Guardians of Life
2020
Chance
2020
The Tree
1993
Le Divorce
2003
Foster Boy
2019
Revengeance
2016
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
American Cinema
1995
Directing (9 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| When I Was a Boy | 1993 | Writer |
| When I Was a Boy | 1993 | Producer |
| Ecce Pirate | 1997 | Writer |
| Ecce Pirate | 1997 | Producer |
| If... Dog... Rabbit | 1999 | Writer |
| Kettle of Fish | 2006 | Executive Producer |
| I Think I Thought | 2008 | Writer |
| I Think I Thought | 2008 | Producer |
| Cowboy | 2008 | Writer |
| Little Fish, Strange Pond | 2009 | Executive Producer |
| The Trial | 2010 | Producer |
| Jesus Was a Commie | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Jesus Was a Commie | 2011 | Writer |
| The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project | 2011 | Writer |
| Merry Xmas | 2015 | Writer |
| The Brainwashing of My Dad | 2015 | Producer |
| Last Days of Coney Island | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| Super Sex | 2016 | Producer |
| Super Sex | 2016 | Writer |
| Revengeance | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Against the Current | 2021 | Writer |
| The Fuse | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Downwind | 2023 | Producer |
| My Love Affair with Marriage | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| I Am What You Imagine | 2023 | Writer |
| I Hope This Helps! | 2024 | Executive Producer |