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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 22, 1959
Place of Birth
Loma Linda, California, USA
Also Known As
- Мэттью Модайн
- 매튜 모딘
- Мэтью Модайн
- マシュー・モディーン
- 马修·莫迪恩
- متیو مودین
Matthew Modine
3.5 Popularity
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Modine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027
7.2
Bill Braddock
The Better Sister
2025
7.0
Richard Dreyer
Zero Day
2025
6.7
Greg Townsend
Hard Miles
2024
8.0
Steve
The Martini Shot
2023
6.6
Anders Muller
Retribution
2023
8.1
Vannevar Bush
Oppenheimer
2023
5.7
Bo (voice)
My Love Affair with Marriage
2023
7.7
Self
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
4.8
Narrator (voice)
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2023
Credits
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027
0.0
The Better Sister
as Bill Braddock
2025
7.2
Zero Day
as Richard Dreyer
2025
7.0
Hard Miles
as Greg Townsend
2024
6.7
The Martini Shot
as Steve
2023
8.0
Retribution
as Anders Muller
2023
6.6
Oppenheimer
as Vannevar Bush
2023
8.1
My Love Affair with Marriage
as Bo (voice)
2023
5.7
100 Years of Warner Bros.
as Self
2023
7.7
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
as Narrator (voice)
2023
4.8
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
as Rick Singer
2021
6.9
Against the Current
as Narrator
2021
0.0
Breaking News in Yuba County
as Karl Buttons
2021
5.8
Wrong Turn
as Scott Shaw
2021
6.0
Chance
as Coach Mike
2020
5.9
Guardians of Life
2020
5.3
Miss Virginia
as Congressman Cliff Williams
2019
8.2
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
2019
6.5
Foster Boy
as Michael Trainer
2019
6.9
Backtrace
as MacDonald
2018
5.0
Speed Kills
as George Bush
2018
5.5
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Secretary of Defense James Riley
2018
6.9
Filmworker
as Self
2018
7.1
47 Meters Down
as Taylor
2017
5.8
The Hippopotamus
as Michael Logan
2017
6.4
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
as Bob Riley
2016
6.9
Army of One
as Dr. Ross
2016
5.2
Revengeance
as Sid
2016
5.7
Stranger Things
as Martin Brenner
2016
8.6
The Confirmation
as Kyle
2016
6.4
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
2015
7.5
The Brainwashing of My Dad
as Himself - Narrator
2015
6.2
Proof
as Ivan Turing
2015
6.5
Merry Xmas
as Abe
2015
6.5
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
as Theodore Foster
2015
4.9
Altar
as Alec
2014
4.9
Kubrick Remembered
as Self
2014
6.5
Guests
as Theodore Foster
2014
6.0
🎬
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
as Himself
2014
10.0
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
Jobs
as John Sculley
2013
6.1
Family Weekend
as Duncan Dungy
2013
6.3
CAT. 8
as Dr. Michael Ranger
2013
6.6
The Dark Knight Rises
as Foley
2012
7.8
Girl in Progress
as Dr. Harford
2012
5.6
Too Big to Fail
as John Thain
2011
7.0
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Adventures in Plymptoons!
as Himself
2011
2.0
Jesus Was a Commie
as Himself
2011
0.0
The Trial
as Mac
2010
5.7
Mulberry St.
as Self
2010
6.0
Little Fish, Strange Pond
as Mr. Jack
2009
3.8
PoliWood
as Self
2009
6.5
Santa: The Fascist Years
as Narrator (voice)
2008
5.6
Sex and Lies in Sin City
as Ted Binion
2008
3.4
Cowboy
as Cowboy
2008
5.0
I Think I Thought
as Joe
2008
0.0
Garden of Eden
as David's Father
2008
4.9
The Neighbor
as Jeff
2007
5.1
Go Go Tales
as Johnie Ruby
2007
5.7
Have Dreams, Will Travel
as Ben's Father
2007
7.5
Kettle of Fish
as Mel
2006
4.8
The Bedford Diaries
as Jake Macklin
2006
7.0
Mary
as Tony Childress / Jesus
2005
5.7
Opa!
as Eric
2005
5.7
Odyssey in Rome
2005
0.0
Weeds
as Sullivan Groff
2005
7.5
Transporter 2
as Jefferson Billings
2005
6.3
Into the West
as Samson Wheeler
2005
8.0
Funky Monkey
as Alec McCall
2004
6.0
🎬
The Tony Danza Show
as Self - Guest
2004
6.1
The Winning Season
as Honus Wagner
2004
5.0
Mon voisin du dessus
as Jeff
2004
6.0
Hollywood North
as Bobby Myers
2004
5.1
Le Divorce
as Tellman
2003
5.0
Overnight
as Self
2003
6.4
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
as Fritz Gerlich
2003
7.1
Redeemer
as Paul Freeman
2002
6.6
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
as Jack Robinson
2001
6.8
The Shipment
as Mitch Garrett
2001
4.5
In the Shadows
as Eric
2001
5.1
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
as Self
2001
7.4
Nobody's Baby
as Sonny
2001
5.2
Bamboozled
as Himself
2000
6.2
Very Mean Men
as Bartender
2000
5.8
Flowers for Algernon
as Charlie Gordon
2000
5.7
Any Given Sunday
as Dr. Ollie Powers
1999
6.8
If... Dog... Rabbit
as Johnnie Cooper
1999
3.9
The West Wing
as Marco Arlens
1999
8.3
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Gordon Rickett
1999
7.9
Notting Hill
as Actor (uncredited)
1999
7.3
The American
as Christopher Newman
1998
5.8
So Graham Norton
as Self - Guest
1998
6.3
Surviving the Dust Bowl
as Lawrence Svobida (voice)
1998
0.0
The Real Blonde
as Joe
1998
5.6
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
as Self
1998
7.7
What the Deaf Man Heard
as Sammy Ayers
1997
6.3
The Maker
as Walter Schmeiss
1997
5.0
The Blackout
as Matty
1997
5.8
Ecce Pirate
as Narrator
1997
0.0
Cutthroat Island
as William Shaw
1995
5.8
Fluke
as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
1995
7.1
Lo + plus
as Self - Guest
1995
0.0
Bye Bye Love
as Dave Goldman
1995
5.9
American Cinema
as Narrator
1995
0.0
Jacob
as Jakob
1994
6.5
The Browning Version
as Frank Hunter
1994
6.5
Short Cuts
as Dr. Ralph Wyman
1993
7.2
And the Band Played On
as Dr. Don Francis
1993
6.5
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
as Self
1993
6.0
The Tree
as Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
1993
4.0
Equinox
as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
1992
5.6
Wind
as Will Parker
1992
6.3
Pacific Heights
as Drake Goodman
1990
6.3
Memphis Belle
as Dennis Dearborn
1990
6.7
The Lemon Sisters
as Wild Bill Hamer
1989
4.6
Gross Anatomy
as Joe Slovak
1989
5.7
The Gamble
as Francesco Sacredo
1988
1.7
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.5
Married to the Mob
as Mike Downey
1988
6.0
Orphans
as Treat
1987
5.8
Full Metal Jacket
as Pvt. Joker
1987
8.1
Vision Quest
as Louden Swain
1985
6.4
Mrs. Soffel
as Jack Biddle
1984
6.0
Birdy
as Birdy
1984
7.1
The Hotel New Hampshire
as Chip Dove / Ernst
1984
5.6
Streamers
as Billy
1983
5.9
Private School
as Jim Green
1983
5.7
Baby It's You
as Steve
1983
5.9
Amy and the Angel
as Randy
1982
5.5
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
6.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sammy Ayers
1951
8.6
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
as Self
N/A
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Protector
N/A
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