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.
113 movies · 23 shows
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
2026·0.0
Protector
2026·8.5
Hard Miles
2024·6.8
Retribution
2023·6.5
Oppenheimer
2023·8.0
The Martini Shot
2023·6.5
My Love Affair with Marriage
2023·5.4
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2023·4.3
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
2021·6.8
Against the Current
2021·0.0
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021·5.9
Wrong Turn
2021·5.9
Chance
2020·5.7
Guardians of Life
2020·5.5
Miss Virginia
2019·7.8
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019·6.5
Foster Boy
2019·6.7
Backtrace
2018·5.0
Speed Kills
2018·5.4
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018·6.9
Filmworker
2018·7.1
The Green Fog
2018·6.1
47 Meters Down
2017·5.8
The Hippopotamus
2017·6.4
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016·6.8
Army of One
2016·5.2
Revengeance
2016·5.5
The Confirmation
2016·6.4
Unity
2015·7.5
The Brainwashing of My Dad
2015·6.3
Merry Xmas
2015·7.0
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015·4.8
Altar
2014·4.9
Kubrick Remembered
2014·6.6
Guests
2014·6.0
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
2014·10.0
Jobs
2013·6.1
CAT. 8
2013·0.0
Family Weekend
2013·6.3
The Dark Knight Rises
2012·7.8
Girl in Progress
2012·5.6
Too Big to Fail
2011·6.9
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011·2.0
Jesus Was a Commie
2011·0.0
The Trial
2010·5.9
Mulberry St.
2010·6.0
Little Fish, Strange Pond
2009·3.7
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2009·3.4
PoliWood
2009·6.5
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008·5.6
Go Go Tales
2008·5.7
Cowboy
2008·5.0
I Think I Thought
2008·0.0
Garden of Eden
2008·4.7
The Neighbor
2007·5.2
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007·7.6
Kettle of Fish
2006·4.7
Mary
2005·5.7
Opa!
2005·6.0
Odyssey in Rome
2005·7.0
Transporter 2
2005·6.3
Funky Monkey
2004·6.2
The Winning Season
2004·6.3
Hollywood North
2004·5.1
Le Divorce
2003·4.9
Overnight
2003·6.3
Redeemer
2002·7.1
World Birth Day
2002·0.0
The Shipment
2001·5.1
In the Shadows
2001·5.3
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001·7.4
Nobody's Baby
2001·5.2
Bamboozled
2000·6.3
Very Mean Men
2000·5.3
Flowers for Algernon
2000·5.7
Any Given Sunday
1999·6.8
If... Dog... Rabbit
1999·4.5
Notting Hill
1999·7.3
The American
1998·5.4
Surviving the Dust Bowl
1998·9.0
The Real Blonde
1998·5.3
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998·7.7
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997·6.4
The Maker
1997·5.3
The Blackout
1997·5.8
Ecce Pirate
1997·8.0
Cutthroat Island
1995·5.8
Fluke
1995·7.1
Bye Bye Love
1995·6.0
Jacob
1994·6.7
The Browning Version
1994·6.4
Short Cuts
1993·7.2
And the Band Played On
1993·6.5
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993·8.0
The Tree
1993·4.0
Equinox
1992·5.7
Wind
1992·6.2
Pacific Heights
1990·6.3
Memphis Belle
1990·6.7
The Lemon Sisters
1989·5.1
Gross Anatomy
1989·5.7
The Gamble
1988·3.4
Married to the Mob
1988·6.0
Orphans
1987·5.7
Full Metal Jacket
1987·8.1
Vision Quest
1985·6.4
Mrs. Soffel
1984·6.0
Birdy
1984·7.1
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984·5.7
Streamers
1983·5.6
Private School
1983·5.7
Baby It's You
1983·6.0
Amy and the Angel
1982·6.7