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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2016 • TV
1999 • TV
1989 • TV
2012 • Movie
1987 • Movie
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as Pvt. Joker
as Anders Muller
as Honus Wagner
as Louden Swain
as Frank Hunter
as Jefferson Billings
as Dave Goldman
as Jim Green
as Alec McCall
as Jack Biddle
as Dr. Ollie Powers
as Drake Goodman
as Tony Childress / Jesus
as Mike Downey
as Dennis Dearborn
as William Shaw
as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
as John Sculley
as Bobby Myers
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as Dr. Martin Brenner
19 episodes
as Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)
1 episodes
as Gordon Rickett
1 episodes
as Dr. Stern (voice)
1 episodes
as Self
1 episodes
as Marco Arlens
1 episodes
as Self - Host
1 episodes
as Sullivan Groff
15 episodes
as Self - Guest
3 episodes
as Self - Guest
1 episodes
as Bill Braddock
8 episodes
as Richard Dreyer
6 episodes
as Self
2 episodes
as Samson Wheeler
6 episodes
as Self - Guest
1 episodes
as Fritz Gerlich
2 episodes
as Self - Guest
1 episodes
as Jack Robinson
2 episodes
as Self
1 episodes
as Dr. Michael Ranger
2 episodes
