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.
Filmography (31)
Protector
Retribution
Oppenheimer
Wrong Turn
Breaking News in Yuba County
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Backtrace
Speed Kills
47 Meters Down
The Confirmation
Jobs
Family Weekend
The Dark Knight Rises
Too Big to Fail
Transporter 2
In the Shadows
Bamboozled
Any Given Sunday
Notting Hill
The Blackout
Cutthroat Island
Bye Bye Love
Fluke
Short Cuts
Pacific Heights
Memphis Belle
Married to the Mob
Full Metal Jacket
Vision Quest
Birdy
