Matthew Modine
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.
Known for
Stranger Things
Dr. Martin Brenner
Stranger Things
Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Gordon Rickett
The Simpsons
Dr. Stern (voice)
Weeds
Sullivan Groff
The West Wing
Marco Arlens
Oppenheimer
Vannevar Bush
Retribution
Anders Muller
The Dark Knight Rises
Foley
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Secretary of Defense James Riley
Full Metal Jacket
Pvt. Joker
The Better Sister
Bill Braddock
Zero Day
Richard Dreyer
Filmworker
Self
Wrong Turn
Scott Shaw
Backtrace
MacDonald
Notting Hill
Actor (uncredited)
The Winning Season
Honus Wagner
Foster Boy
Michael Trainer
Vision Quest
Louden Swain
Bye Bye Love
Dave Goldman
Guests
Theodore Foster
Into the West
Samson Wheeler
Transporter 2
Jefferson Billings
Unity
Narrator (voice)
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Fritz Gerlich
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Self
Speed Kills
George Bush
Le Divorce
Tellman
The Blackout
Matty
The American
Christopher Newman
The Confirmation
Kyle
Very Mean Men
Bartender
The Browning Version
Frank Hunter
Bamboozled
Himself
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Memphis Belle
Dennis Dearborn
Kubrick Remembered
Self
Kettle of Fish
Mel
Any Given Sunday
Dr. Ollie Powers
Birdy
Birdy
Funky Monkey
Alec McCall
Private School
Jim Green
Family Weekend
Duncan Dungy
Baby It's You
Steve
Pacific Heights
Drake Goodman
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sammy Ayers
47 Meters Down
Taylor
Guardians of Life
Mrs. Soffel
Jack Biddle
Cutthroat Island
William Shaw
Santa: The Fascist Years
Narrator (voice)
Mary
Tony Childress / Jesus
Jobs
John Sculley
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Jack Robinson
Equinox
Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
Altar
Alec
Married to the Mob
Mike Downey
Hard Miles
Greg Townsend
Go Go Tales
Johnie Ruby
Protector
Colonel Joseph Lavelle
Short Cuts
Dr. Ralph Wyman
CAT. 8
Dr. Michael Ranger
Fluke
Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
Hollywood North
Bobby Myers
Too Big to Fail
John Thain
Overnight
Self
Proof
Ivan Turing
Against the Current
Narrator
Wind
Will Parker
In the Shadows
Eric
Mulberry St.
Self
The Bedford Diaries
Jake Macklin
Orphans
Treat
Breaking News in Yuba County
Karl Buttons
Opa!
Eric
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Rick Singer
Cowboy
Cowboy
The Neighbor
Jeff
Army of One
Dr. Ross
Chance
Coach Mike
And the Band Played On
Dr. Don Francis
Jesus Was a Commie
Himself
The Hotel New Hampshire
Chip Dove / Ernst
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Self
Jacob
Jakob
The Flying House
Bertie (voice)
Have Dreams, Will Travel
Ben's Father
What the Deaf Man Heard
Sammy Ayers
The Trial
Mac
American Cinema
Self
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
Self
The Hippopotamus
Michael Logan
The Real Blonde
Joe
Garden of Eden
David's Father
Girl in Progress
Dr. Harford
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
Narrator (voice)
Gross Anatomy
Joe Slovak
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Theodore Foster
Flowers for Algernon
Charlie Gordon
Sex and Lies in Sin City
Ted Binion
Amy and the Angel
Randy
My Love Affair with Marriage
Bo (voice)
Streamers
Billy
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Self
The Lemon Sisters
Wild Bill Hamer
Redeemer
Paul Freeman
Nobody's Baby
Sonny
World Birth Day
Self - Narrator(voice)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Self
Little Fish, Strange Pond
Mr. Jack
Adventures in Plymptoons!
Self
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Lawrence Svobida (voice)
I Think I Thought
Joe
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Bob Riley
The Gamble
Francesco Sacredo
Odyssey in Rome
The Martini Shot
Steve
Revengeance
Sid
PoliWood
Self
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Self
The Maker
Walter Schmeiss
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
Self
Ecce Pirate
Narrator
If... Dog... Rabbit
Johnnie Cooper
Miss Virginia
Congressman Cliff Williams
The Tree
Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
The Shipment
Mitch Garrett
Merry Xmas
Abe
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Self
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Himself - Narrator
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
The Tony Danza Show
Self - Guest
So Graham Norton
Self - Guest
Lo + plus
Self - Guest