Actor

Matthew Modine

Acting

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Acting credits

131

Prolific

Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

2.5

Moderate attention

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Movies: 118Series: 21Crew credits: 22

TMDB ID: 8654

IMDb ID: nm0000546

Known for: Acting

Born: March 22, 1959

Age: 66

Place of birth: Loma Linda, California, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1951 - 2027

Years active: 77

Average TMDB rating: 6.38

Wikidata: Q318249

Also known as

Matthew Avery Modine

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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.