Cast
Matthew Modine
Acting
Cast
Matthew Modine
Known for
Acting
Born
1959-03-22
From
Loma Linda, California, USA
Also known as Matthew Avery 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 (2016â2022). 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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Oppenheimer
as Vannevar Bush
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8.5
MOVIE2026
Protector
as Colonel Joseph Lavelle
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MOVIE2012
The Dark Knight Rises
as Foley
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MOVIE1987
Full Metal Jacket
as Pvt. Joker
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MOVIE2018
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Secretary of Defense James Riley
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MOVIE1999
Notting Hill
as Actor (uncredited)
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MOVIE2021
Wrong Turn
as Scott Shaw
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MOVIE2005
Transporter 2
as Jefferson Billings
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MOVIE2023
Retribution
as Anders Muller
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MOVIE1999
Any Given Sunday
as Dr. Ollie Powers
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47 Meters Down
as Taylor
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MOVIE1995
Cutthroat Island
as William Shaw
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Jobs
as John Sculley
MOVIE2027
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
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MOVIE1984
Birdy
as Birdy
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MOVIE1990
Pacific Heights
as Drake Goodman
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MOVIE1988
Married to the Mob
as Mike Downey
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MOVIE1983
Private School
as Jim Green
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MOVIE2011
Too Big to Fail
as John Thain
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MOVIE1995
Fluke
as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
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MOVIE2013
Family Weekend
as Duncan Dungy
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MOVIE1993
Short Cuts
as Dr. Ralph Wyman
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Mary
as Tony Childress / Jesus
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Memphis Belle
as Dennis Dearborn
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And the Band Played On
as Dr. Don Francis
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Streamers
as Billy
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Backtrace
as MacDonald
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Bamboozled
as Himself
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Overnight
as Self
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Have Dreams, Will Travel
as Ben's Father
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Speed Kills
as George Bush
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MOVIE2003
Le Divorce
as Tellman
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The Hotel New Hampshire
as Chip Dove / Ernst
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Breaking News in Yuba County
as Karl Buttons
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Orphans
as Treat
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Redeemer
as Paul Freeman
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Sex and Lies in Sin City
as Ted Binion
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Little Fish, Strange Pond
as Mr. Jack
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MOVIE1997
What the Deaf Man Heard
as Sammy Ayers
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Vision Quest
as Louden Swain
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Adventures in Plymptoons!
as Self
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The Browning Version
as Frank Hunter
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MOVIE2008
Go Go Tales
as Johnie Ruby
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MOVIE2000
Flowers for Algernon
as Charlie Gordon
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Girl in Progress
as Dr. Harford
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MOVIE1994
Jacob
as Jakob
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Army of One
as Dr. Ross
MOVIE2026
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
as Self - Narrator
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MOVIE1989
Gross Anatomy
as Joe Slovak
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Wind
as Will Parker
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Funky Monkey
as Alec McCall
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MOVIE2020
Chance
as Coach Mike
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MOVIE1995
Bye Bye Love
as Dave Goldman
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MOVIE1984
Mrs. Soffel
as Jack Biddle
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The Blackout
as Matty
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MOVIE2001
In the Shadows
as Eric
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The Real Blonde
as Joe
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The Trial
as Mac
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MOVIE2020
Guardians of Life
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MOVIE2009
PoliWood
as Self
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5.7
MOVIE1992
Equinox
as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
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7.6
MOVIE2015
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
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5.1
MOVIE1989
The Lemon Sisters
as Wild Bill Hamer
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6.5
MOVIE2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
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5.5
MOVIE2016
Revengeance
as Sid
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MOVIE2004
Hollywood North
as Bobby Myers
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6.4
MOVIE2016
The Confirmation
as Kyle
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MOVIE2019
Foster Boy
as Michael Trainer
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4.7
MOVIE2008
Garden of Eden
as David's Father
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MOVIE2005
Odyssey in Rome
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MOVIE2017
The Hippopotamus
as Michael Logan
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MOVIE2001
The Shipment
as Mitch Garrett
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MOVIE1983
Baby It's You
as Steve
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MOVIE2021
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
as Rick Singer
MOVIE2011
Jesus Was a Commie
as Himself
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MOVIE2005
Opa!
as Eric
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MOVIE2001
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
as Self
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MOVIE1997
The Maker
as Walter Schmeiss
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MOVIE2007
The Neighbor
as Jeff
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Hard Miles
as Greg Townsend
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MOVIE2015
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
as Theodore Foster
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MOVIE1998
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
as Self
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MOVIE2001
Nobody's Baby
as Sonny
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MOVIE1999
If... Dog... Rabbit
as Johnnie Cooper
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A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
as Self
MOVIETBA
The Splendid Thing
as Declan King
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MOVIE2023
My Love Affair with Marriage
as Bo (voice)
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MOVIE2000
Very Mean Men
as Bartender
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MOVIE2018
The Green Fog
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MOVIE2019
Miss Virginia
as Congressman Cliff Williams
MOVIETBA
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
as Self
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MOVIE2015
Merry Xmas
as Abe
MOVIE2021
Against the Current
as Narrator
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MOVIE2018
Filmworker
as Self
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MOVIE2010
Mulberry St.
as Self
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MOVIE1998
The American
as Christopher Newman
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MOVIE2008
Santa: The Fascist Years
as Narrator (voice)
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MOVIE1988
The Gamble
as Francesco Sacredo
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MOVIE2004
The Winning Season
as Honus Wagner
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MOVIE1982
Amy and the Angel
as Randy
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MOVIE2016
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
as Bob Riley
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Surviving the Dust Bowl
as Lawrence Svobida (voice)
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World Birth Day
as Self - Narrator(voice)
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The Brainwashing of My Dad
as Himself - Narrator
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Kubrick Remembered
as Self
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MOVIE2014
Altar
as Alec
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MOVIE1997
Ecce Pirate
as Narrator
MOVIE2008
I Think I Thought
as Joe
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MOVIE2006
Kettle of Fish
as Mel
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MOVIE2014
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
as Self
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MOVIE1993
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
as Self
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MOVIE2023
The Martini Shot
as Steve
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MOVIE2014
Guests
as Theodore Foster
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MOVIE2023
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2013
CAT. 8
as Dr. Michael Ranger
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MOVIE1993
The Tree
as Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
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MOVIE2008
Cowboy
as Cowboy