Matthew Modine
Known For
Acting
Born
1959-03-22 in Loma Linda, California, USA
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.
Most Known For
The Simpsons
as Dr. Stern (voice)
Stranger Things
as Dr. Martin Brenner
Stranger Things
as Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Gordon Rickett
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
The West Wing
as Marco Arlens
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
Weeds
as Sullivan Groff
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
Oppenheimer
as Vannevar Bush
The Dark Knight Rises
as Foley
The Tony Danza Show
as Self - Guest
Full Metal Jacket
as Pvt. Joker
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Secretary of Defense James Riley
Zero Day
as Richard Dreyer
The Better Sister
as Bill Braddock
Notting Hill
as Actor (uncredited)
Wrong Turn
as Scott Shaw
Transporter 2
as Jefferson Billings
100 Years of Warner Bros.
as Self