Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1959-03-22 (Age: 67)
Place of Birth
Loma Linda, California, USA
Matthew 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 (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 (112)
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
2026
Protector
2026
Hard Miles
2024
Retribution
2023
Oppenheimer
2023
The Martini Shot
2023
My Love Affair with Marriage
2023
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2023
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
2021
Against the Current
2021
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021
Wrong Turn
2021
Chance
2020
