Actor

Matthew Modine

March 22, 1959 · Loma Linda, California, USA

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.

Notable work

7.8
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
as Foley
8.6
Stranger Things (2016)
as Dr. Martin Brenner and as Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)
8
Oppenheimer (2023)
as Vannevar Bush
8.1
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
as Pvt. Joker
8
The Simpsons (1989)
as Dr. Stern (voice)
7.3
Notting Hill (1999)
as Actor (uncredited)
8
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
as Gordon Rickett
6.9
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
as Secretary of Defense James Riley
6.3
Transporter 2 (2005)
as Jefferson Billings
5.8
47 Meters Down (2017)
as Taylor
6.1
Jobs (2013)
as John Sculley
6.8
Any Given Sunday (1999)
as Dr. Ollie Powers

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