Matthew Modine

Matthew Modine

Acting March 22, 1959 Loma Linda, California, USA
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.

Movies

Protector
8.6
Colonel Joseph Lavelle
Protector
2026
Wrong Turn
5.9
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Scott Shaw
Wrong Turn
2021
Retribution
6.5
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Anders Muller
Retribution
2023
Mary
5.7
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Tony Childress / Jesus
Mary
2005

TV Shows

Stranger Things
8.6
Old CineBeta
Dr. Martin Brenner
Stranger Things
2016
Stranger Things
8.6
Old CineBeta
Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)
Stranger Things
2016

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