Matthew Modine

Biography

Matthew Avery Modine 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.

Matthew Modine

Biography

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Filmography:

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)

Amy and the Angel (1982)

Private School (1983)

Baby It's You (1983)

Streamers (1983)

Birdy (1984)

The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

Mrs. Soffel (1984)

Vision Quest (1985)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Orphans (1987)

Married to the Mob (1988)

The Gamble (1988)

Gross Anatomy (1989)

The Lemon Sisters (1989)

Pacific Heights (1990)

Memphis Belle (1990)

Wind (1992)

Equinox (1992)

Short Cuts (1993)

And the Band Played On (1993)

The Tree (1993)

When I Was a Boy (1993)

Jacob (1994)

The Browning Version (1994)

Cutthroat Island (1995)

Fluke (1995)

Bye Bye Love (1995)

American Cinema (1995)

The Blackout (1997)

What the Deaf Man Heard (1997)

The Maker (1997)

Ecce Pirate (1997)

The Real Blonde (1998)

The American (1998)

Surviving the Dust Bowl (1998)

Notting Hill (1999)

The West Wing (1999)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)

Any Given Sunday (1999)

If... Dog... Rabbit (1999)

Flowers for Algernon (2000)

Very Mean Men (2000)

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)

In the Shadows (2001)

Nobody's Baby (2001)

The Shipment (2001)

Redeemer (2002)

Le Divorce (2003)

Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)

Hollywood North (2004)

Funky Monkey (2004)

The Winning Season (2004)

Weeds (2005)

Transporter 2 (2005)

Into the West (2005)

Opa! (2005)

Mary (2005)

The Bedford Diaries (2006)

Kettle of Fish (2006)

Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007)

The Neighbor (2007)

Go Go Tales (2007)

Garden of Eden (2008)

Sex and Lies in Sin City (2008)

Santa: The Fascist Years (2008)

I Think I Thought (2008)

Cowboy (2008)

Little Fish, Strange Pond (2009)

The Trial (2010)

Too Big to Fail (2011)

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Girl in Progress (2012)

CAT. 8 (2013)

Jobs (2013)