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 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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Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Protector
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things - The First Shadow
Retribution
Oppenheimer
My Love Affair with Marriage
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
The Martini Shot
Hard Miles
Against the Current
Breaking News in Yuba County
Wrong Turn
Operation Varsity Blues
Chance
Guardians of Life
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Foster Boy
Miss Virginia
Backtrace
Speed Kills
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
47 Meters Down
Filmworker
The Hippopotamus
The Green Fog
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Army of One
The Confirmation
Revengeance
Unity
Merry Xmas
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Guests
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
Altar
Kubrick Remembered
Jobs
CAT. 8
Family Weekend
The Dark Knight Rises
Girl in Progress
Too Big to Fail
The Trial
Mulberry St.
Sex and Lies in Sin City
PoliWood
Little Fish, Strange Pond
Santa: The Fascist Years
The Garden of Eden
Have Dreams, Will Travel
The Neighbor
Go Go Tales
Kettle of Fish
Opa!
Odyssey in Rome
Transporter 2
Mary
The Winning Season
Hollywood North
Funky Monkey
Le Divorce
Overnight
Redeemer- WOWorld Birth Day
The Shipment
In the Shadows
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
Nobody's Baby
Bamboozled
Very Mean Men
Flowers for Algernon
Any Given Sunday
Notting Hill
The American
Surviving the Dust Bowl
The Real Blonde
What the Deaf Man Heard
The Maker
The Blackout
Cutthroat Island
Fluke
Bye Bye Love
Jacob
The Browning Version
Short Cuts
And the Band Played On
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
The Tree
Wind
Equinox
Pacific Heights
Memphis Belle
Gross Anatomy
The Gamble
Married to the Mob
Orphans
Full Metal Jacket
Vision Quest
Mrs. Soffel
Birdy
The Hotel New Hampshire
Private School
Streamers
Baby It's You
Amy and the Angel
Kubrick's War: The Making of Full Metal Jacket
