Matthew Modine

Acting Mar 22, 1959 (67 years old) Loma Linda, California, USA

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.

138 Acting Credits

26 Crew Credits

Matthew Modine

Acting

The Dark Knight Rises

Stranger Things

Stranger Things

Oppenheimer

Full Metal Jacket

The Simpsons

Notting Hill

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Transporter 2

47 Meters Down

Jobs

Any Given Sunday

Retribution

Wrong Turn

Weeds

Short Cuts

Cutthroat Island

The West Wing

Birdy

Saturday Night Live

Zero Day

Memphis Belle

Pacific Heights

Crew

Protector

The Trial

Little Fish, Strange Pond

The Brainwashing of My Dad

Revengeance

My Love Affair with Marriage

Kettle of Fish

If... Dog... Rabbit

Last Days of Coney Island

Downwind

Super Sex

Merry Xmas