Acting
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.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · TV
The Simpsons
1989 · TV
Stranger Things
2016 · TV
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV
Saturday Night Live
1975 · TV
The West Wing
1999 · TV
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · TV
Weeds
2005 · TV
Protector
2026 · Movie
Oppenheimer
2023 · Movie
The Dark Knight Rises
2012 · Movie
The Better Sister
2025 · TV
Wrong Turn
2021 · Movie
Retribution
2023 · Movie
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018 · Movie
Zero Day
2025 · TV
Notting Hill
1999 · Movie
Full Metal Jacket
1987 · Movie
Transporter 2
2005 · Movie
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
2003 · TV
Into the West
2005 · TV
Lo + plus
1995 · TV
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023 · TV
47 Meters Down
2017 · Movie
So Graham Norton
1998 · TV
Private School
1983 · Movie
Backtrace
2018 · Movie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV
Any Given Sunday
1999 · Movie
Jobs
2013 · Movie
Cutthroat Island
1995 · Movie
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027 · Movie
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001 · TV
Memphis Belle
1990 · Movie
The Bedford Diaries
2006 · TV
Birdy
1984 · Movie
Married to the Mob
1988 · Movie
Pacific Heights
1990 · Movie
Unity
2015 · Movie
Wind
1992 · Movie
Too Big to Fail
2011 · Movie
CAT. 8
2013 · TV
And the Band Played On
1993 · Movie
Family Weekend
2013 · Movie
Proof
2015 · TV
Short Cuts
1993 · Movie
Fluke
1995 · Movie
Vision Quest
1985 · Movie
The Confirmation
2016 · Movie
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021 · Movie
Overnight
2003 · Movie
The Blackout
1997 · Movie
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984 · Movie
Jacob
1994 · Movie
Baby It's You
1983 · Movie
Le Divorce
2003 · Movie
American Cinema
1994 · TV
Speed Kills
2018 · Movie
Filmworker
2018 · Movie
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007 · Movie
Bamboozled
2000 · Movie
Army of One
2016 · Movie
Flowers for Algernon
2000 · Movie
The Trial
2010 · Movie
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001 · Movie
Altar
2014 · Movie
Mrs. Soffel
1984 · Movie
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
2021 · Movie
Bye Bye Love
1995 · Movie
The Real Blonde
1998 · Movie
Hard Miles
2024 · Movie
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
2026 · Movie
Foster Boy
2019 · Movie
Mary
2005 · Movie
Equinox
1992 · Movie
The Maker
1997 · Movie
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2009 · Movie
Funky Monkey
2004 · Movie
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998 · Movie
The Browning Version
1994 · Movie
Go Go Tales
2008 · Movie
Nobody's Baby
2001 · Movie
The Martini Shot
2023 · Movie
Garden of Eden
2008 · Movie
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997 · Movie
Little Fish, Strange Pond
2009 · Movie
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015 · Movie
Odyssey in Rome
2005 · Movie
Girl in Progress
2012 · Movie
Miss Virginia
2019 · Movie
The Neighbor
2007 · Movie
Gross Anatomy
1989 · Movie
Revengeance
2016 · Movie
Streamers
1983 · Movie
In the Shadows
2001 · Movie
The Gamble
1988 · Movie
The Hippopotamus
2017 · Movie
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
· Movie
PoliWood
2009 · Movie
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993 · Movie
The Lemon Sisters
1989 · Movie
Redeemer
2002 · Movie
My Love Affair with Marriage
2023 · Movie
The Shipment
2001 · Movie
Opa!
2005 · Movie
Kubrick Remembered
2014 · Movie
Very Mean Men
2000 · Movie
Kettle of Fish
2006 · Movie
Hollywood North
2004 · Movie
Chance
2020 · Movie
Amy and the Angel
1982 · Movie
Orphans
1987 · Movie
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019 · Movie
The American
1998 · Movie
Mulberry St.
2010 · Movie
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016 · Movie
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
· Movie
Guests
2014 · Movie
The Winning Season
2004 · Movie
Guardians of Life
2020 · Movie
Against the Current
2021 · Movie
Merry Xmas
2015 · Movie
Surviving the Dust Bowl
1998 · Movie
If... Dog... Rabbit
1999 · Movie
Ecce Pirate
1997 · Movie
The Brainwashing of My Dad
2015 · Movie
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2023 · Movie
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008 · Movie
Jesus Was a Commie
2011 · Movie
The Tree
1993 · Movie
Cowboy
2008 · Movie
I Think I Thought
2008 · Movie
