Matthew Modine
Born March 22, 1959 (Age: 66)
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Loma Linda, California, USA
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 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 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.
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Filmography
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027
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as
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Age: 68
Hard Miles
2024
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as Greg Townsend
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Age: 65
Retribution
2023
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as Anders Muller
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Age: 64
Oppenheimer
2023
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as Vannevar Bush
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Age: 64
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021
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as Karl Buttons
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Age: 61
Wrong Turn
2021
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as Scott Shaw
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Age: 61
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
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as Secretary of Defense James Riley
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Age: 59
47 Meters Down
2017
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as Taylor
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Age: 58
The Confirmation
2016
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as Kyle
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Age: 56
Jobs
2013
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as John Sculley
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Age: 54
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
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as Foley
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Age: 53
Girl in Progress
2012
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as Dr. Harford
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Age: 53
The Flying House
2011
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as (voice)
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Age: 52
Go Go Tales
2008
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as Johnie Ruby
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Age: 49
Garden of Eden
2008
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as David's Father
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Age: 48
Transporter 2
2005
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as Jefferson Billings
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Age: 46
Le Divorce
2003
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as Tellman
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Age: 44
No Image
World Birth Day
2002
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as Self - Narrator(voice)
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Age: 42
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
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as Self
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Age: 42
Bamboozled
2000
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as Himself
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Age: 41
Very Mean Men
2000
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as Bartender
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Age: 41
Any Given Sunday
1999
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as Dr. Ollie Powers
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Age: 40
Notting Hill
1999
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as Actor (uncredited)
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Age: 40
Surviving the Dust Bowl
1998
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as Lawrence Svobida (voice)
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Age: 38
The Real Blonde
1998
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as Joe
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Age: 38
Cutthroat Island
1995
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as William Shaw
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Age: 36
Fluke
1995
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as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
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Age: 36
The Browning Version
1994
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as Frank Hunter
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Age: 35
Short Cuts
1993
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as Dr. Ralph Wyman
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Age: 34
Equinox
1992
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as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
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Age: 33
Wind
1992
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as Will Parker
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Age: 33
Pacific Heights
1990
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as Drake Goodman
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Age: 31
Gross Anatomy
1989
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as Joe Slovak
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Age: 30
Married to the Mob
1988
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as Mike Downey
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Age: 29
Orphans
1987
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as Treat
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Age: 28
Full Metal Jacket
1987
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as Pvt. Joker
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Age: 28
Mrs. Soffel
1984
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as Jack Biddle
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Age: 25
Birdy
1984
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as Birdy
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Age: 25
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
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as Chip Dove / Ernst
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Age: 24
Private School
1983
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as Jim Green
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Age: 24
Baby It's You
1983
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as Steve
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Age: 23
Amy and the Angel
1982
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as Randy
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Age: 23