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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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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March 25th, 2027 | Godzilla x Kong: Supernova | TBD | TBD | |
June 1st, 2026 | Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure | Self - Narrator | TBD | |
February 20th, 2026 | Protector | Colonel Joseph Lavelle | 6.4 | |
April 19th, 2024 | Hard Miles | Greg Townsend | 6.8 | |
August 23rd, 2023 | Retribution | Anders Muller | 6.5 | |
July 19th, 2023 | Oppenheimer | Vannevar Bush | 8 | |
July 13th, 2023 | The Martini Shot | Steve | 6.5 | |
June 7th, 2023 | My Love Affair with Marriage | Bo (voice) | 5.4 | |
April 18th, 2023 | Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations | Narrator (voice) | 4.3 | |
March 17th, 2021 | Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal | Rick Singer | 6.8 | |
March 1st, 2021 | Against the Current | Narrator | TBD | |
January 28th, 2021 | Breaking News in Yuba County | Karl Buttons | 5.9 | |
January 26th, 2021 | Wrong Turn | Scott Shaw | 5.9 | |
April 9th, 2020 | Chance | Coach Mike | 5.7 | |
February 6th, 2020 | Guardians of Life | TBD | 5.3 | |
October 18th, 2019 | Miss Virginia | Congressman Cliff Williams | 8.1 | |
October 12th, 2019 | Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self | 6.5 | |
October 3rd, 2019 | Foster Boy | Michael Trainer | 6.7 | |
December 14th, 2018 | Backtrace | MacDonald | 5 | |
November 16th, 2018 | Speed Kills | George Bush | 5.4 | |
June 27th, 2018 | Sicario: Day of the Soldado | Secretary of Defense James Riley | 6.9 | |
May 11th, 2018 | Filmworker | Self | 7.1 | |
May 25th, 2017 | 47 Meters Down | Taylor | 5.8 | |
March 8th, 2017 | The Hippopotamus | Michael Logan | 6.4 | |
November 23rd, 2016 | How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents | Bob Riley | 6.8 | |
November 4th, 2016 | Army of One | Dr. Ross | 5.2 | |
September 15th, 2016 | Revengeance | Sid | 5.5 | |
March 18th, 2016 | The Confirmation | Kyle | 6.4 | |
August 12th, 2015 | Unity | Narrator (voice) | 7.5 | |
July 29th, 2015 | The Brainwashing of My Dad | Himself - Narrator | 6.3 | |
April 19th, 2015 | Merry Xmas | Abe | 6.5 | |
March 25th, 2015 | The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards | Theodore Foster | 4.8 | |
December 27th, 2014 | Altar | Alec | 4.9 | |
November 4th, 2014 | Kubrick Remembered | Self | 6.5 | |
August 29th, 2014 | Guests | Theodore Foster | 6 | |
August 25th, 2014 | How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire | Self | 10 | |
August 15th, 2013 | Jobs | John Sculley | 6.1 | |
March 28th, 2013 | Family Weekend | Duncan Dungy | 6.3 | |
July 17th, 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Foley | 7.8 | |
May 11th, 2012 | Girl in Progress | Dr. Harford | 5.6 | |
November 25th, 2011 | Too Big to Fail | John Thain | 7 | |
May 30th, 2011 | Adventures in Plymptoons! | Self | 2 | |
May 19th, 2011 | Jesus Was a Commie | Himself | TBD | |
September 10th, 2010 | The Trial | Mac | 5.8 | |
July 17th, 2010 | Mulberry St. | Self | 6 | |
October 23rd, 2009 | Little Fish, Strange Pond | Mr. Jack | 3.7 | |
October 22nd, 2009 | Sex and Lies in Sin City | Ted Binion | 3.3 | |
July 3rd, 2009 | PoliWood | Self | 6.5 | |
December 1st, 2008 | Santa: The Fascist Years | Narrator (voice) | 5.6 | |
June 20th, 2008 | Go Go Tales | Johnie Ruby | 5.7 | |
June 12th, 2008 | Cowboy | Cowboy | 5 | |
April 25th, 2008 | I Think I Thought | Joe | TBD | |
January 1st, 2008 | Garden of Eden | David's Father | 4.7 | |
December 15th, 2007 | The Neighbor | Jeff | 5.2 | |
May 21st, 2007 | Have Dreams, Will Travel | Ben's Father | 7.6 | |
October 15th, 2006 | Kettle of Fish | Mel | 4.7 | |
November 18th, 2005 | Mary | Tony Childress / Jesus | 5.7 | |
November 13th, 2005 | Opa! | Eric | 6 | |
September 30th, 2005 | Odyssey in Rome | TBD | 7 | |
August 3rd, 2005 | Transporter 2 | Jefferson Billings | 6.3 | |
September 17th, 2004 | Funky Monkey | Alec McCall | 6.2 | |
April 3rd, 2004 | The Winning Season | Honus Wagner | 6.3 | |
January 12th, 2004 | Hollywood North | Bobby Myers | 5.1 | |
August 8th, 2003 | Le Divorce | Tellman | 4.9 | |
June 12th, 2003 | Overnight | Self | 6.3 | |
January 31st, 2002 | Redeemer | Paul Freeman | 7.1 | |
January 1st, 2002 | World Birth Day | Self - Narrator(voice) | TBD | |
October 1st, 2001 | The Shipment | Mitch Garrett | 5.1 | |
June 24th, 2001 | In the Shadows | Eric | 5.3 | |
February 17th, 2001 | Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures | Self | 7.4 | |
January 1st, 2001 | Nobody's Baby | Sonny | 5.2 | |
October 6th, 2000 | Bamboozled | Himself | 6.3 | |
June 10th, 2000 | Very Mean Men | Bartender | 5.3 | |
February 20th, 2000 | Flowers for Algernon | Charlie Gordon | 5.7 | |
December 22nd, 1999 | Any Given Sunday | Dr. Ollie Powers | 6.8 | |
September 29th, 1999 | If... Dog... Rabbit | Johnnie Cooper | 4.5 | |
May 21st, 1999 | Notting Hill | Actor (uncredited) | 7.3 | |
December 26th, 1998 | The American | Christopher Newman | 5.4 | |
March 2nd, 1998 | Surviving the Dust Bowl | Lawrence Svobida (voice) | 9 | |
February 27th, 1998 | The Real Blonde | Joe | 5.4 | |
January 1st, 1998 | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman | Self | 8 | |
November 23rd, 1997 | What the Deaf Man Heard | Sammy Ayers | 6.4 | |
August 1st, 1997 | The Maker | Walter Schmeiss | 5.3 | |
June 11th, 1997 | The Blackout | Matty | 5.8 | |
June 1st, 1997 | Ecce Pirate | Narrator | 8 | |
December 22nd, 1995 | Cutthroat Island | William Shaw | 5.8 | |
June 2nd, 1995 | Fluke | Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke | 7.1 | |
March 16th, 1995 | Bye Bye Love | Dave Goldman | 6 | |
December 4th, 1994 | Jacob | Jakob | 6.7 | |
June 8th, 1994 | The Browning Version | Frank Hunter | 6.5 | |
October 1st, 1993 | Short Cuts | Dr. Ralph Wyman | 7.2 | |
September 11th, 1993 | And the Band Played On | Dr. Don Francis | 6.5 | |
March 26th, 1993 | Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country | Self | 8 | |
February 25th, 1993 | The Tree | Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man | 4 | |
September 18th, 1992 | Equinox | Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace | 5.7 | |
September 11th, 1992 | Wind | Will Parker | 6.2 | |
September 28th, 1990 | Pacific Heights | Drake Goodman | 6.3 | |
September 7th, 1990 | Memphis Belle | Dennis Dearborn | 6.7 | |
December 1st, 1989 | The Lemon Sisters | Wild Bill Hamer | 5.1 | |
October 20th, 1989 | Gross Anatomy | Joe Slovak | 5.7 | |
October 28th, 1988 | The Gamble | Francesco Sacredo | 3.4 | |
August 19th, 1988 | Married to the Mob | Mike Downey | 6 | |
September 18th, 1987 | Orphans | Treat | 5.7 | |
June 26th, 1987 | Full Metal Jacket | Pvt. Joker | 8.1 | |
February 15th, 1985 | Vision Quest | Louden Swain | 6.4 | |
December 26th, 1984 | Mrs. Soffel | Jack Biddle | 6 | |
December 14th, 1984 | Birdy | Birdy | 7.1 | |
March 9th, 1984 | The Hotel New Hampshire | Chip Dove / Ernst | 5.6 | |
September 5th, 1983 | Streamers | Billy | 5.6 | |
June 29th, 1983 | Private School | Jim Green | 5.7 | |
March 4th, 1983 | Baby It's You | Steve | 5.9 | |
September 22nd, 1982 | Amy and the Angel | Randy | 6.7 | |
TBD | Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life | Self | TBD | |
TBD | A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket | Self | TBD | |
TBD | The Splendid Thing | Declan King | TBD |