MATTHEW MODINE

Matthew Modine

Profile

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

  1. Wrong Turn (2021)

Episodes

  1. Stranger Things S1E1: "Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers"
  2. Stranger Things S1E2: "Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street"
  3. Stranger Things S1E3: "Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly"
  4. Stranger Things S1E4: "Chapter Four: The Body"
  5. Stranger Things S1E5: "Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat"
  6. Stranger Things S1E6: "Chapter Six: The Monster"
  7. Stranger Things S1E7: "Chapter Seven: The Bathtub"
  8. Stranger Things S1E8: "Chapter Eight: The Upside Down"