Acting credits
131
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.

Acting
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Acting credits
131
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
TMDB popularity
2.5
Moderate attention
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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
Other jobs
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.








Movie credits linked with Matthew Modine.
as Colonel Joseph Lavelle
Executive Producer
as Greg Townsend
as Anders Muller
Director
as Vannevar Bush
as Steve
as Bo (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
Producer
Executive Producer
as Rick Singer
as Narrator
as Karl Buttons
as Scott Shaw
as Coach Mike
as Congressman Cliff Williams
as Self
as Michael Trainer
Thanks
as MacDonald
as George Bush
Series credits linked with Matthew Modine.
as Bill Braddock • 8 eps
as Richard Dreyer • 6 eps
as Self • 2 eps
as Dr. Martin Brenner • 19 eps
as Ivan Turing • 10 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Dr. Michael Ranger • 2 eps
as Jake Macklin • 8 eps
as Sullivan Groff • 15 eps
as Samson Wheeler • 6 eps
as Fritz Gerlich • 2 eps
as Jack Robinson • 2 eps
as Marco Arlens • 1 eps
as Gordon Rickett • 1 eps
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Dr. Stern (voice) • 1 eps
as Self - Guest • 3 eps
as Self - Host • 1 eps
as Sammy Ayers • 1 eps