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.
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Filmography
all 147
Movies 125
TV Shows 22
self 22
Producer 14
Director 4
Voice 4
Writer 2
Narrator 2

Zero Day (2025)

I Hope This Helps! (2024)

Hard Miles (2024)

Retribution (2023)

I Am What You Imagine (2023)

Oppenheimer (2023)

My Love Affair with Marriage (2023)

Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations (2023)

Downwind (2023)

The Fuse (2022)

Against the Current (2021)

Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)

Wrong Turn (2021)

Chance (2020)

Miss Virginia (2019)

Foster Boy (2019)

Red Ink (2019)

Sanctuary (2019)

Surveillance (2019)

Backtrace (2018)

Speed Kills (2018)

Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

The Hippopotamus (2017)

Army of One (2016)

Revengeance (2016)

Stranger Things (2016)

Super Sex (2016)

Last Days of Coney Island (2015)

Unity (2015)

The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)

Proof (2015)

Merry Xmas (2015)

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (2015)

Guests (2014)

Jobs (2013)

Family Weekend (2013)

CAT. 8 (2013)

Girl in Progress (2012)

Too Big to Fail (2011)

The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project (2011)

Jesus Was a Commie (2011)

The Trial (2010)

Little Fish, Strange Pond (2009)

Santa: The Fascist Years (2008)

Sex and Lies in Sin City (2008)

Mia and the Migoo (2008)

I Think I Thought (2008)

Garden of Eden (2008)

Go Go Tales (2007)

Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007)

Kettle of Fish (2006)

The Bedford Diaries (2006)

Mary (2005)

Opa! (2005)

Weeds (2005)

Transporter 2 (2005)

Into the West (2005)

Funky Monkey (2004)

The Tony Danza Show (2004)

The Winning Season (2004)

Hollywood North (2004)

Le Divorce (2003)

Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)

Redeemer (2002)

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)

The Shipment (2001)

Bamboozled (2000)

Very Mean Men (2000)

Flowers for Algernon (2000)

Any Given Sunday (1999)

One Last Score (1999)

The West Wing (1999)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)

Notting Hill (1999)

The American (1998)

So Graham Norton (1998)

Surviving the Dust Bowl (1998)

What the Deaf Man Heard (1997)

The Maker (1997)

Ecce Pirate (1997)

Cutthroat Island (1995)

Fluke (1995)

Lo + plus (1995)

Bye Bye Love (1995)

American Cinema (1995)

Jacob (1994)

The Browning Version (1994)

American Cinema (1994)

And the Band Played On (1993)

Short Cuts (1993)

The Tree (1993)

When I Was a Boy (1993)

Equinox (1992)

Wind (1992)

Pacific Heights (1990)

Memphis Belle (1990)

The Lemon Sisters (1989)

Gross Anatomy (1989)

The Gamble (1988)

LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)

Married to the Mob (1988)

Orphans (1987)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Vision Quest (1985)

Mrs. Soffel (1984)

Birdy (1984)

The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

Private School (1983)

Saturday Night Live (1975)

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)

The Flying House

The Better Sister

Keepers of the Wild

Cowboy
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1959-03-22 (66 years old)
Birth NameMatthew Avery Modine
Birth PlaceLoma Linda, United States
ChildrenRuby Modine
FatherMark Alexander Modine
CitizenshipsUnited States
ResidencesNew York City, United States
Also Known AsМэттью Модайн, 매튜 모딘, Мэтью Модайн, マシュー・モディーン, 马修·莫迪恩, متیو مودین
AwardsScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Volpi Cup for Best Actor
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