Matthew Modine

ActorProducerDirectorWriterCrew Mar 22 (age 67) Loma Linda, California, USA 1975–2027 (52 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

Stranger Things

Dr. Martin Brenner

Film

The Dark Knight Rises

Foley

Film

Full Metal Jacket

Pvt. Joker

Film

Oppenheimer

Vannevar Bush

Film

Notting Hill

Actor (uncredited)

Film

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Secretary of Defense James Riley

Film

Transporter 2

Jefferson Billings

Film

Weeds

Sullivan Groff

Filmography

Acting (138)

Movies (115)

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

2027 Upcoming

Mar 25

Protector

2026

as Colonel Joseph Lavelle

Hard Miles

as Greg Townsend

Oppenheimer

as Vannevar Bush

Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations

as Narrator (voice)

Retribution

as Anders Muller

My Love Affair with Marriage

as Bo (voice)

The Martini Shot

as Steve

Wrong Turn

as Scott Shaw

Against the Current

as Narrator

Breaking News in Yuba County

2021

as Karl Buttons

5.9

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

as Rick Singer

Chance

as Coach Mike

Guardians of Life

Foster Boy

as Michael Trainer

Miss Virginia

as Congressman Cliff Williams

8.1

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

2019

as Self

6.5

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

2018

as Secretary of Defense James Riley

Filmworker

as Self

Backtrace

as MacDonald

Speed Kills

as George Bush

47 Meters Down

as Taylor

The Hippopotamus

as Michael Logan

The Confirmation

as Kyle

Army of One

as Dr. Ross

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents

as Bob Riley

Revengeance

as Sid

Unity

as Narrator (voice)

Merry Xmas

as Abe

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

2015

as Theodore Foster

4.8

The Brainwashing of My Dad

2015

as Himself - Narrator

Altar

as Alec

Guests

as Theodore Foster

Kubrick Remembered

as Self

How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire

as Self

Family Weekend

as Duncan Dungy

Jobs

as John Sculley

The Dark Knight Rises

as Foley

Girl in Progress

as Dr. Harford

Too Big to Fail

as John Thain

Jesus Was a Commie

as Himself

The Flying House

2011

as Bertie (voice)

7.0

Adventures in Plymptoons!

2011

as Self

2.0

The Flying House

2011

as (voice)

Mulberry St.

as Self

The Trial

as Mac

PoliWood

as Self

Sex and Lies in Sin City

2009

as Ted Binion

3.3

Little Fish, Strange Pond

as Mr. Jack

Garden of Eden

as David's Father

Go Go Tales

as Johnie Ruby

Cowboy

as Cowboy

Santa: The Fascist Years

2008

as Narrator (voice)

5.6

I Think I Thought

2008

as Joe

The Neighbor

2007

as Jeff

5.2

Have Dreams, Will Travel

as Ben's Father

Kettle of Fish

as Mel

Transporter 2

as Jefferson Billings

6.3

Mary

2005

as Tony Childress / Jesus

Opa!

as Eric

Odyssey in Rome

Funky Monkey

as Alec McCall

The Winning Season

as Honus Wagner

Hollywood North

as Bobby Myers

Le Divorce

as Tellman

Overnight

as Self

Redeemer

as Paul Freeman

World Birth Day

as Self - Narrator(voice)

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

as Self

Nobody's Baby

as Sonny

In the Shadows

as Eric

The Shipment

as Mitch Garrett

Bamboozled

as Himself

Very Mean Men

as Bartender

Flowers for Algernon

as Charlie Gordon

Notting Hill

as Actor (uncredited)

Any Given Sunday

as Dr. Ollie Powers

If... Dog... Rabbit

as Johnnie Cooper

The Real Blonde

as Joe

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman

1998

as Self

7.7

The American

1998

as Christopher Newman

4.8

Surviving the Dust Bowl

1998

as Lawrence Svobida (voice)

The Maker

as Walter Schmeiss

The Blackout

as Matty

Ecce Pirate

as Narrator

What the Deaf Man Heard

1997

as Sammy Ayers

6.2

Fluke

1995

as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke

Cutthroat Island

as William Shaw

Bye Bye Love

as Dave Goldman

Jacob

as Jakob

The Browning Version

as Frank Hunter

Short Cuts

as Dr. Ralph Wyman

And the Band Played On

1993

as Dr. Don Francis

6.4

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

1993

as Self

6.0

The Tree

1993

as Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man

4.0

Equinox

1992

as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace

Wind

as Will Parker

Pacific Heights

as Drake Goodman

Memphis Belle

as Dennis Dearborn

Gross Anatomy

as Joe Slovak

The Lemon Sisters

as Wild Bill Hamer

Married to the Mob

as Mike Downey

The Gamble

as Francesco Sacredo

Full Metal Jacket

as Pvt. Joker

Orphans

as Treat

Vision Quest

as Louden Swain

Birdy

as Birdy

The Hotel New Hampshire

as Chip Dove / Ernst

Mrs. Soffel

as Jack Biddle

Private School

as Jim Green

Streamers

as Billy

Baby It's You

as Steve

Amy and the Angel

as Randy

A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket

as Self

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life

as Self

Television (23)

Zero Day

as Richard Dreyer

The Better Sister

as Bill Braddock

100 Years of Warner Bros.

2023

as Self

7.7

Stranger Things

2016

as Dr. Martin Brenner

8.6

Stranger Things

2016

as Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)

8.6

Proof

2015

as Ivan Turing

6.5

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self

5.2

CAT. 8

2013

as Dr. Michael Ranger

The Bedford Diaries

as Jake Macklin

Weeds

as Sullivan Groff

Into the West

as Samson Wheeler

The Tony Danza Show

as Self - Guest

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

2003

as Fritz Gerlich

7.1

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

2001

as Jack Robinson

6.8

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Gordon Rickett

The West Wing

as Marco Arlens

So Graham Norton

as Self - Guest

Lo + plus

as Self - Guest

American Cinema

as Self

The Simpsons

as Dr. Stern (voice)

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as Self - Guest

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Sammy Ayers

8.6

Crew (26)

Movies (26)

Protector

2026

Producer

7.2

I Hope This Helps!

2024

Executive Producer

My Love Affair with Marriage

Executive Producer

Downwind

Producer

I Am What You Imagine

2023

Director

The Fuse

2022

Executive Producer

6.0

Against the Current

2021

Writer

Red Ink

Thanks

Super Sex

Director

Revengeance

Executive Producer

Merry Xmas

Writer

Last Days of Coney Island

2015

Executive Producer

5.5

The Brainwashing of My Dad

2015

Producer

6.3

Jesus Was a Commie

2011

Executive Producer

The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project

2011

Writer

The Flying House

2011

Executive Producer

The Trial

2010

Producer

5.8

Little Fish, Strange Pond

Executive Producer

Cowboy

Director

I Think I Thought

Director

Kettle of Fish

Executive Producer

If... Dog... Rabbit

Writer

Ecce Pirate

Director

When I Was a Boy

1993

Director

A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket

Producer

Keepers of the Wild

Executive Producer