Matthew Modine
Acting
Born 1959-03-22
Loma Linda, California, USA
151 credits
Screen Actors Guild Awards 1
Volpi Cup for Best Actor 1
Awards
Won 1 Screen Actors Guild Award
Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 won
- 2017 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Won Stranger Things
Volpi Cup for Best Actor 1 won
- 1983 Best Actor Won Streamers
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
59 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Simpsons
Stranger Things
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The West Wing
Saturday Night Live
Oppenheimer
Weeds
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
American Playhouse
The Dark Knight Rises
Protector
The Tony Danza Show
Full Metal Jacket
Notting Hill
Zero Day
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Transporter 2
The Better Sister
Wrong Turn
Into the West
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Any Given Sunday
Retribution
So Graham Norton
47 Meters Down
Lo + plus
Cutthroat Island
Private School
Pacific Heights
Backtrace
Jobs
Married to the Mob
Memphis Belle
Too Big to Fail
Speed Kills
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Vision Quest
Short Cuts
Birdy
Family Weekend
Bamboozled
Le Divorce
Breaking News in Yuba County
CAT. 8
The Bedford Diaries
American Cinema
Mary
Fluke
Proof
Mrs. Soffel
And the Band Played On
The Hotel New Hampshire
Army of One
The Trial
Baby It's You
Overnight
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Producing
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