
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.

Protector
as Colonel Joseph Lavelle

Oppenheimer
as Vannevar Bush

The Dark Knight Rises
as Foley

Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Secretary of Defense James Riley

Wrong Turn
as Scott Shaw

Full Metal Jacket
as Pvt. Joker

Notting Hill
as Actor (uncredited)

Transporter 2
as Jefferson Billings

Private School
as Jim Green

Any Given Sunday
as Dr. Ollie Powers

Backtrace
as MacDonald

Retribution
as Anders Muller

47 Meters Down
as Taylor

Cutthroat Island
as William Shaw

Unity
as Narrator (voice)

Jobs
as John Sculley

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

Wind
as Will Parker

Birdy
as Birdy

Pacific Heights
as Drake Goodman

Short Cuts
as Dr. Ralph Wyman

Memphis Belle
as Dennis Dearborn

Married to the Mob
as Mike Downey

Baby It's You
as Steve

Too Big to Fail
as John Thain

Family Weekend
as Duncan Dungy

Jacob
as Jakob

Fluke
as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke

The Confirmation
as Kyle

Speed Kills
as George Bush

Le Divorce
as Tellman

Vision Quest
as Louden Swain

Bamboozled
as Himself

The Neighbor
as Jeff

The Hotel New Hampshire
as Chip Dove / Ernst

Breaking News in Yuba County
as Karl Buttons

Mrs. Soffel
as Jack Biddle

The Trial
as Mac

Have Dreams, Will Travel
as Ben's Father

Funky Monkey
as Alec McCall

The Blackout
as Matty

Army of One
as Dr. Ross

And the Band Played On
as Dr. Don Francis

Filmworker
as Self

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
as Rick Singer

Go Go Tales
as Johnie Ruby

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
as Self

Adventures in Plymptoons!
as Self

Equinox
as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace

Altar
as Alec

Overnight
as Self

The Real Blonde
as Joe

Bye Bye Love
as Dave Goldman

The Hippopotamus
as Michael Logan

Girl in Progress
as Dr. Harford

Mary
as Tony Childress / Jesus

Foster Boy
as Michael Trainer

The Maker
as Walter Schmeiss

Hard Miles
as Greg Townsend

Gross Anatomy
as Joe Slovak

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
as Theodore Foster

The Browning Version
as Frank Hunter

Kettle of Fish
as Mel

Garden of Eden
as David's Father

Nobody's Baby
as Sonny

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
as Self

PoliWood
as Self

The American
as Christopher Newman

Little Fish, Strange Pond
as Mr. Jack

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
as Self

Flowers for Algernon
as Charlie Gordon

Sex and Lies in Sin City
as Ted Binion

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self

In the Shadows
as Eric

Kubrick Remembered
as Self

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
as Self

Streamers
as Billy

What the Deaf Man Heard
as Sammy Ayers

The Lemon Sisters
as Wild Bill Hamer

Against the Current
as Narrator

Chance
as Coach Mike

Revengeance
as Sid

My Love Affair with Marriage
as Bo (voice)

The Gamble
as Francesco Sacredo

If... Dog... Rabbit
as Johnnie Cooper

Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
as Self - Narrator

Guardians of Life

Orphans
as Treat

Odyssey in Rome

Very Mean Men
as Bartender

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
as Bob Riley

Hollywood North
as Bobby Myers

Amy and the Angel
as Randy

The Martini Shot
as Steve

Opa!
as Eric

The Shipment
as Mitch Garrett

The Winning Season
as Honus Wagner

A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
as Self

Redeemer
as Paul Freeman

Surviving the Dust Bowl
as Lawrence Svobida (voice)

Miss Virginia
as Congressman Cliff Williams

Guests
as Theodore Foster

How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
as Self

Mulberry St.
as Self

Merry Xmas
as Abe

The Tree
as Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man

Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
as Narrator (voice)

The Splendid Thing
as Declan King

Ecce Pirate
as Narrator

Santa: The Fascist Years
as Narrator (voice)

The Brainwashing of My Dad
as Himself - Narrator

I Think I Thought
as Joe

Jesus Was a Commie
as Himself

Cowboy
as Cowboy

World Birth Day
as Self - Narrator(voice)