Matthew Modine

Acting · Born 1959-03-22 in Loma Linda, California, USA

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…

Filmography

• Full Metal Jacket as Pvt. Joker
• Short Cuts as Dr. Ralph Wyman
• Fluke as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
• Birdy as Birdy
• Too Big to Fail as John Thain
• The Dark Knight Rises as Foley
• Oppenheimer as Vannevar Bush
• Sicario: Day of the Soldado as Secretary of Defense James Riley
• Notting Hill as Actor (uncredited)
• Protector as Colonel Joseph Lavelle

TV

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Gordon Rickett
• The West Wing as Marco Arlens
• Stranger Things as Dr. Martin Brenner
• The Simpsons as Dr. Stern (voice)
• Stranger Things as Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)
• The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
• The Bedford Diaries as Jake Macklin
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sammy Ayers
• Into the West as Samson Wheeler
• So Graham Norton as Self - Guest