Acting
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
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Film · 2027
Protector
Film · 2026
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
Film · 2026
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Film · 2025
Zero Day
Series · 2025
The Better Sister
Series · 2025
Hard Miles
Film · 2024
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
Film · 2023
Retribution
Film · 2023
The Martini Shot
Film · 2023
Oppenheimer
Film · 2023
My Love Affair with Marriage
Film · 2023
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Series · 2023
Against the Current
Film · 2021
Wrong Turn
Film · 2021
Breaking News in Yuba County
Film · 2021
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Film · 2021
Guardians of Life
Film · 2020
Chance
Film · 2020
Miss Virginia
Film · 2019
Foster Boy
Film · 2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Film · 2019
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Film · 2018
Backtrace
Film · 2018
Speed Kills
Film · 2018
Filmworker
Film · 2018
The Green Fog
Film · 2018
47 Meters Down
Film · 2017
The Hippopotamus
Film · 2017
The Confirmation
Film · 2016
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Film · 2016
Army of One
Film · 2016
Revengeance
Film · 2016
Stranger Things
Series · 2016
Stranger Things
Series · 2016
Unity
Film · 2015
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Film · 2015
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Film · 2015
Merry Xmas
Film · 2015
Proof
Series · 2015
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
Film · 2014
Altar
Film · 2014
Guests
Film · 2014
Kubrick Remembered
Film · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
Jobs
Film · 2013
Family Weekend
Film · 2013
CAT. 8
Film · 2013
CAT. 8
Series · 2013
The Dark Knight Rises
Film · 2012
Girl in Progress
Film · 2012
Too Big to Fail
Film · 2011
Adventures in Plymptoons!
Film · 2011
Jesus Was a Commie
Film · 2011
The Trial
Film · 2010
Mulberry St.
Film · 2010
Sex and Lies in Sin City
Film · 2009
Little Fish, Strange Pond
Film · 2009
PoliWood
Film · 2009
Garden of Eden
Film · 2008
Go Go Tales
Film · 2008
Cowboy
Film · 2008
I Think I Thought
Film · 2008
Santa: The Fascist Years
Film · 2008
Have Dreams, Will Travel
Film · 2007
The Neighbor
Film · 2007
Kettle of Fish
Film · 2006
The Bedford Diaries
Series · 2006
Transporter 2
Film · 2005
Mary
Film · 2005
Opa!
Film · 2005
Odyssey in Rome
Film · 2005
Into the West
Series · 2005
Weeds
Series · 2005
Funky Monkey
Film · 2004
Hollywood North
Film · 2004
The Winning Season
Film · 2004
The Tony Danza Show
Series · 2004
Overnight
Film · 2003
Le Divorce
Film · 2003
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Series · 2003
Redeemer
Film · 2002
World Birth Day
Film · 2002
In the Shadows
Film · 2001
Nobody's Baby
Film · 2001
The Shipment
Film · 2001
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
Film · 2001
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Series · 2001
Flowers for Algernon
Film · 2000
Bamboozled
Film · 2000
Very Mean Men
Film · 2000
Any Given Sunday
Film · 1999
If... Dog... Rabbit
Film · 1999
Notting Hill
Film · 1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Series · 1999
The West Wing
Series · 1999
The Real Blonde
Film · 1998
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Film · 1998
The American
Film · 1998
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Film · 1998
So Graham Norton
Series · 1998
The Blackout
Film · 1997
The Maker
Film · 1997
What the Deaf Man Heard
Film · 1997
Ecce Pirate
Film · 1997
Cutthroat Island
Film · 1995
Fluke
Film · 1995
Bye Bye Love
Film · 1995
Lo + plus
Series · 1995
Jacob
Film · 1994
The Browning Version
Film · 1994
American Cinema
Series · 1994
Short Cuts
Film · 1993
And the Band Played On
Film · 1993
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Film · 1993
The Tree
Film · 1993
Wind
Film · 1992
Equinox
Film · 1992
Pacific Heights
Film · 1990
Memphis Belle
Film · 1990
Gross Anatomy
Film · 1989
The Lemon Sisters
Film · 1989
The Simpsons
Series · 1989
Married to the Mob
Film · 1988
The Gamble
Film · 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Series · 1988
Full Metal Jacket
Film · 1987
Orphans
Film · 1987
Vision Quest
Film · 1985
Birdy
Film · 1984
Mrs. Soffel
Film · 1984
The Hotel New Hampshire
Film · 1984
Streamers
Film · 1983
Private School
Film · 1983
Baby It's You
Film · 1983
Amy and the Angel
Film · 1982
American Playhouse
Series · 1982
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Series · 1951
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Film
Kubrick's War: The Making of Full Metal Jacket
Film
The Splendid Thing
Film