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.
as Self - Pvt. Joker, Full Metal Jacket
as Declan King
as General Fulton
as Self - Narrator
as Colonel Joseph Lavelle
as Bill Braddock(8 eps)
as Self - 'Stranger Things' Dr Brenner
as Richard Dreyer(6 eps)
as Greg Townsend
as Anders Muller
as Vannevar Bush
as Steve
as Bo (voice)
as Self(2 eps)
as Narrator (voice)
as Rick Singer
as Narrator
as Karl Buttons
as Scott Shaw
as Coach Mike
as Congressman Cliff Williams
as Self
as Michael Trainer
as MacDonald
as George Bush
as Secretary of Defense James Riley
as Self
as Taylor
as Michael Logan
as Bob Riley
as Dr. Ross
as Sid
as Dr. Martin Brenner(19 eps)
as Dr. Martin Brenner (archive footage)(1 ep)
as Kyle
as Narrator (voice)
as Himself - Narrator
as Ivan Turing(10 eps)
as Abe
as Theodore Foster
as Alec
as Self
as Theodore Foster
as Self(1 ep)
as John Sculley
as Dr. Michael Ranger
as Duncan Dungy
as Dr. Michael Ranger(2 eps)
as Foley
as Dr. Harford
as John Thain
as Self
as Himself
as Mac
as Self
as Mr. Jack
as Ted Binion
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as David's Father
as Johnie Ruby
as Cowboy
as Joe
as Jeff
as Ben's Father
as Mel
as Jake Macklin(8 eps)
as Tony Childress / Jesus
as Eric
as Sullivan Groff(15 eps)
as Jefferson Billings
as Samson Wheeler(6 eps)
as Alec McCall
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Honus Wagner
as Bobby Myers
as Tellman
as Self
as Fritz Gerlich(2 eps)
as Paul Freeman
as Self - Narrator(voice)
as Jack Robinson(2 eps)
as Mitch Garrett
as Eric
as Sonny
as Himself
as Bartender
as Charlie Gordon
as Dr. Ollie Powers
as Johnnie Cooper
as Marco Arlens(1 ep)
as Gordon Rickett(1 ep)
as Actor (uncredited)
as Christopher Newman
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Lawrence Svobida (voice)
as Joe
as Sammy Ayers
as Walter Schmeiss
as Matty
as Narrator
as William Shaw
as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Dave Goldman
as Jakob
as Frank Hunter
as Self(1 ep)
as Dr. Ralph Wyman
as Dr. Don Francis
as Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
as Will Parker
as Drake Goodman
as Dennis Dearborn
as Dr. Stern (voice)(1 ep)
as Wild Bill Hamer
as Joe Slovak
as Francesco Sacredo
as Self - Guest(3 eps)
as Mike Downey
as Treat
as Pvt. Joker
as Louden Swain
as Jack Biddle
as Birdy
as Chip Dove / Ernst
as Billy
as Jim Green
as Steve
as Randy
as Eugene O'Neill(1 ep)
as Self - Host(1 ep)
as Sammy Ayers(1 ep)