Matthew Modine
Actor
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
The Dark Knight Rises
as Foley 2012
Oppenheimer
as Vannevar Bush 2023
Full Metal Jacket
as Pvt. Joker 1987
Notting Hill
as Actor (uncredited) 1999
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Secretary of Defense James Riley 2018
Transporter 2
as Jefferson Billings 2005
47 Meters Down
as Taylor 2017
Jobs
as John Sculley 2013
Any Given Sunday
as Dr. Ollie Powers 1999
Retribution
as Anders Muller 2023
Wrong Turn
as Scott Shaw 2021
Short Cuts
as Dr. Ralph Wyman 1993
Cutthroat Island
as William Shaw 1995
Birdy
as Birdy 1984
Memphis Belle
as Dennis Dearborn 1990
Pacific Heights
as Drake Goodman 1990
Army of One
as Dr. Ross 2016