Matthew Modine
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1959-03-22
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.
Also Known For
Full Metal Jacket
Jun 26, 1987
Cutthroat Island
Dec 22, 1995
Short Cuts
Oct 01, 1993
Married to the Mob
Aug 19, 1988
Jacob
Dec 04, 1994
And the Band Played On
Sep 11, 1993
Pacific Heights
Sep 28, 1990
Amy and the Angel
Sep 22, 1982
Fluke
Jun 02, 1995
Vision Quest
Feb 15, 1985
Birdy
Dec 14, 1984
Bye Bye Love
Mar 16, 1995
Sex and Lies in Sin City
Oct 22, 2009
Garden of Eden
Jan 01, 2008
Orphans
Sep 18, 1987
Mrs. Soffel
Dec 26, 1984
The Blackout
Jun 11, 1997
Any Given Sunday
Dec 22, 1999
Transporter 2
Aug 03, 2005
Memphis Belle
Sep 07, 1990
In the Shadows
Jun 24, 2001
Flowers for Algernon
Feb 20, 2000
Wind
Sep 11, 1992
The Real Blonde
Feb 27, 1998
Have Dreams, Will Travel
May 21, 2007
Funky Monkey
Sep 17, 2004
Kettle of Fish
Oct 15, 2006
Mary
Nov 18, 2005
Too Big to Fail
Nov 25, 2011
The Neighbor
Dec 15, 2007
Gross Anatomy
Oct 20, 1989
The Dark Knight Rises
Jul 17, 2012
Streamers
Sep 05, 1983
The Trial
Sep 10, 2010
Nobody's Baby
Jan 01, 2001
Private School
Jun 29, 1983
The Browning Version
Jun 08, 1994
Little Fish, Strange Pond
Oct 23, 2009
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
Apr 18, 2023
Go Go Tales
Jun 20, 2008
Girl in Progress
May 11, 2012
Hollywood North
Jan 12, 2004
The Maker
Aug 01, 1997
What the Deaf Man Heard
Nov 23, 1997
Opa!
Nov 13, 2005
The Winning Season
Apr 03, 2004
The Shipment
Oct 01, 2001
Retribution
Aug 23, 2023
Equinox
Sep 18, 1992
Jobs
Aug 15, 2013
Family Weekend
Mar 28, 2013
Cowboy
Jun 12, 2008
Redeemer
Jan 31, 2002
If... Dog... Rabbit
Sep 29, 1999
The Martini Shot
Jul 13, 2023
Mulberry St.
Jul 17, 2010
Baby It's You
Mar 04, 1983
Hard Miles
Apr 19, 2024
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
Aug 25, 2014
The Gamble
Oct 28, 1988
Against the Current
Mar 01, 2021
Oppenheimer
Jul 19, 2023
Adventures in Plymptoons!
May 30, 2011
Altar
Dec 27, 2014
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Jan 01, 1998
Odyssey in Rome
Sep 30, 2005
Unity
Aug 12, 2015
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Mar 25, 2015
Guests
Aug 29, 2014
The Confirmation
Mar 18, 2016
47 Meters Down
May 25, 2017
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Jul 29, 2015
The Hippopotamus
Mar 08, 2017
Jesus Was a Commie
May 19, 2011
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Nov 23, 2016
Bamboozled
Oct 06, 2000
I Think I Thought
Apr 25, 2008
Very Mean Men
Jun 10, 2000
Overnight
Jun 12, 2003
Santa: The Fascist Years
Dec 01, 2008
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Jun 27, 2018
The American
Dec 26, 1998
Backtrace
Dec 14, 2018
Speed Kills
Nov 16, 2018
Filmworker
May 11, 2018
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
May 02, 2001
My Love Affair with Marriage
Jun 07, 2023
Notting Hill
May 21, 1999
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Mar 26, 1993
Miss Virginia
Oct 18, 2019
Army of One
Nov 04, 2016
Wrong Turn
Jan 26, 2021
Kubrick Remembered
Nov 04, 2014
Merry Xmas
Apr 19, 2015
Guardians of Life
Feb 06, 2020
Chance
Apr 09, 2020
The Tree
Feb 25, 1993
Le Divorce
Aug 08, 2003
Foster Boy
Oct 03, 2019
Revengeance
Sep 15, 2016
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Oct 12, 2019
Breaking News in Yuba County
Jan 28, 2021
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Mar 02, 1998
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Mar 17, 2021
The Hotel New Hampshire
Mar 09, 1984
The Lemon Sisters
Aug 31, 1990
PoliWood
Jul 03, 2009
Ecce Pirate
Jun 01, 1997
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Mar 25, 2027
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Protector
Mar 06, 2026
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
World Birth Day
Jan 01, 2002
The Tony Danza Show
Sep 13, 2004
The Bedford Diaries
Mar 29, 2006
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Sep 20, 1999
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Into the West
Jun 10, 2005
So Graham Norton
Jul 03, 1998
Weeds
Aug 07, 2005
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Dec 02, 2001
The West Wing
Sep 22, 1999
Proof
Jun 16, 2015
CAT. 8
Feb 08, 2013
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
100 Years of Warner Bros.
May 25, 2023
Stranger Things
Jul 15, 2016
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
May 18, 2003
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Zero Day
Feb 20, 2025
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
The Better Sister
May 29, 2025
Lo + plus
Apr 04, 1995
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
American Cinema
Jan 01, 1994