Matthew Modine
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 Jack
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.
Born
Mar 22, 1959
Loma Linda, California, USA
Known For
Acting
Movies
118 acting
53 crew
Popularity
3.2
Known For
Oppenheimer
2023
as Vannevar Bush
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
as Foley
Protector
2026
as Colonel Joseph Lavelle
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
as Secretary of Defense James Riley
Full Metal Jacket
1987
as Pvt. Joker
Wrong Turn
2021
as Scott Shaw
Notting Hill
1999
as Actor (uncredited)
Transporter 2
2005
as Jefferson Billings
Retribution
2023
as Anders Muller
47 Meters Down
2017
as Taylor
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