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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Modine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Loma Linda, California, USA, 1959-03-22

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Amy and the Angel	Randy	55
2	1983	Baby It's You	Steve	59
3	1983	Private School	Jim Green	57
4	1983	Streamers	Billy	59
5	1984	The Hotel New Hampshire	Chip Dove / Ernst	56
6	1984	Birdy	Birdy	71
7	1984	Mrs. Soffel	Jack Biddle	60
8	1985	Vision Quest	Louden Swain	63
9	1987	Full Metal Jacket	Pvt. Joker	81
10	1987	Orphans	Treat	58
11	1988	Married to the Mob	Mike Downey	60
12	1988	The Gamble	Francesco Sacredo	17
13	1989	Gross Anatomy	Joe Slovak	57
14	1989	The Lemon Sisters	Wild Bill Hamer	46
15	1990	Memphis Belle	Dennis Dearborn	67
16	1990	Pacific Heights	Drake Goodman	63
17	1992	Wind	Will Parker	63
18	1992	Equinox	Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace	56
19	1993	The Tree	Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man	40
20	1993	Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country	Self	60
21	1993	And the Band Played On	Dr. Don Francis	65
22	1993	Short Cuts	Dr. Ralph Wyman	72
23	1994	The Browning Version	Frank Hunter	65
24	1994	Jacob	Jakob	65
25	1995	American Cinema	Narrator	0
26	1995	Bye Bye Love	Dave Goldman	59
27	1995	Fluke	Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke	71
28	1995	Cutthroat Island	William Shaw	58
29	1997	Ecce Pirate	Narrator	0
30	1997	The Blackout	Matty	58
31	1997	The Maker	Walter Schmeiss	50
32	1997	What the Deaf Man Heard	Sammy Ayers	62
33	1998	Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman	Self	77
34	1998	The Real Blonde	Joe	55
35	1998	Surviving the Dust Bowl	Lawrence Svobida (voice)	0
36	1998	The American	Christopher Newman	58
37	1999	Notting Hill	Actor (uncredited)	73
38	1999	If... Dog... Rabbit	Johnnie Cooper	39
39	1999	Any Given Sunday	Dr. Ollie Powers	68
40	2000	Flowers for Algernon	Charlie Gordon	57
41	2000	Very Mean Men	Bartender	58
42	2000	Bamboozled	Himself	62
43	2001	Nobody's Baby	Sonny	52
44	2001	Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures	Self	74
45	2001	In the Shadows	Eric	51
46	2001	The Shipment	Mitch Garrett	45
47	2002	Redeemer	Paul Freeman	66
48	2003	Overnight	Self	64
49	2003	Le Divorce	Tellman	50
50	2004	Hollywood North	Bobby Myers	51
51	2004	The Winning Season	Honus Wagner	50
52	2004	Funky Monkey	Alec McCall	60
53	2005	Transporter 2	Jefferson Billings	63
54	2005	Odyssey in Rome		0
55	2005	Opa!	Eric	57
56	2005	Mary	Tony Childress / Jesus	57
57	2006	Kettle of Fish	Mel	48
58	2007	Have Dreams, Will Travel	Ben's Father	75
59	2007	Go Go Tales	Johnie Ruby	57
60	2007	The Neighbor	Jeff	51
61	2008	Garden of Eden	David's Father	49
62	2008	I Think I Thought	Joe	0
63	2008	Cowboy	Cowboy	50
64	2008	Sex and Lies in Sin City	Ted Binion	34
65	2008	Santa: The Fascist Years	Narrator (voice)	56
66	2009	PoliWood	Self	65
67	2009	Little Fish, Strange Pond	Mr. Jack	38
68	2010	Mulberry St.	Self	60
69	2010	The Trial	Mac	57
70	2011	Jesus Was a Commie	Himself	0
71	2011	Adventures in Plymptoons!	Himself	20
72	2011	Too Big to Fail	John Thain	70
73	2012	Girl in Progress	Dr. Harford	57
74	2012	The Dark Knight Rises	Foley	78
75	2013	Family Weekend	Duncan Dungy	63
76	2013	Jobs	John Sculley	61
77	2014	How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire	Himself	100
78	2014	Guests	Theodore Foster	60
79	2014	Kubrick Remembered	Self	65
80	2014	Altar	Alec	49
81	2015	The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards	Theodore Foster	49
82	2015	Merry Xmas	Abe	65
83	2015	The Brainwashing of My Dad	Himself - Narrator	62
84	2015	Unity	Narrator (voice)	75
85	2016	The Confirmation	Kyle	64
86	2016	Revengeance	Sid	57
87	2016	Army of One	Dr. Ross	52
88	2016	How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents	Bob Riley	69
89	2017	The Hippopotamus	Michael Logan	64
90	2017	47 Meters Down	Taylor	58
91	2018	Filmworker	Self	71
92	2018	Sicario: Day of the Soldado	Secretary of Defense James Riley	69
93	2018	Speed Kills	George Bush	55
94	2018	Backtrace	MacDonald	50
95	2019	Foster Boy	Michael Trainer	69
96	2019	Alan Pakula: Going for Truth	Self	65
97	2019	Miss Virginia	Congressman Cliff Williams	82
98	2020	Guardians of Life		53
99	2020	Chance	Coach Mike	59
100	2021	Wrong Turn	Scott Shaw	60
101	2021	Breaking News in Yuba County	Karl Buttons	58
102	2021	Against the Current	Narrator	0
103	2021	Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal	Rick Singer	69
104	2023	Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations	Narrator (voice)	48
105	2023	My Love Affair with Marriage	Bo (voice)	58
106	2023	Oppenheimer	Vannevar Bush	81
107	2023	Retribution	Anders Muller	66
108	2023	The Martini Shot	Steve	80
109	2024	Hard Miles	Greg Townsend	67
110	2027	Godzilla x Kong: Supernova		0
111		Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life	Self	0
112		Protector		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Sammy Ayers	86
2	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
3	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest	56
4	1995	Lo + plus	Self - Guest	0
5	1998	So Graham Norton	Self - Guest	63
6	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Gordon Rickett	79
7	1999	The West Wing	Marco Arlens	83
8	2001	Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story	Jack Robinson	68
9	2003	Hitler: The Rise of Evil	Fritz Gerlich	71
10	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self - Guest	61
11	2005	Into the West	Samson Wheeler	80
12	2005	Weeds	Sullivan Groff	75
13	2006	The Bedford Diaries	Jake Macklin	70
14	2013	CAT. 8	Dr. Michael Ranger	66
15	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
16	2015	Proof	Ivan Turing	65
17	2016	Stranger Things	Martin Brenner	86
18	2023	100 Years of Warner Bros.	Self	78
19	2025	Zero Day	Richard Dreyer	70
20	2025	The Better Sister	Bill Braddock	71