Matthew Modine
Acting
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.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Secretary of Defense James Riley
Age 59 (now 67)
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
as Rick Singer
Age 61 (now 67)
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
as Self - Narrator
Age 67
My Love Affair with Marriage
Executive Producer
Age 64 (now 67)
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
as Narrator (voice)
Age 64 (now 67)
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
as Rick Singer
Age 61 (now 67)
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Secretary of Defense James Riley
Age 59 (now 67)
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
as Bob Riley
Age 57 (now 67)
The Brainwashing of My Dad
as Himself - Narrator
Age 56 (now 67)
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
as Theodore Foster
Age 56 (now 67)
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
as Self
Age 55 (now 67)
The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project
Writer
Age 52 (now 67)The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project
Director
Age 52 (now 67)
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
as Self
Age 41 (now 67)
Surviving the Dust Bowl
as Lawrence Svobida (voice)
Age 38 (now 67)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
as Self
Age 38 (now 67)
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
as Self
Age 34 (now 67)
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
Producer
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
as Self
Stranger Things
as Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)
Age 57 (now 67)
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
as Jack Robinson
Age 42 (now 67)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Gordon Rickett
Age 40 (now 67)
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Matthew Avery Modine
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