
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 General Fulton

as Self - Narrator

as Colonel Joseph Lavelle

as Self - 'Stranger Things' Dr Brenner

as Greg Townsend

as Anders Muller

as Vannevar Bush

as Steve

as Bo (voice)

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 Kyle

as Narrator (voice)

as Himself - Narrator

as Abe

as Theodore Foster

as Alec

as Self

as Theodore Foster

as John Sculley

as Dr. Michael Ranger

as Duncan Dungy

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 Tony Childress / Jesus

as Eric

as Jefferson Billings

as Alec McCall

as Honus Wagner

as Bobby Myers

as Tellman

as Self

as Paul Freeman

as Self - Narrator(voice)

as Mitch Garrett

as Eric

as Sonny

as Himself

as Bartender

as Charlie Gordon

as Dr. Ollie Powers

as Johnnie Cooper

as Actor (uncredited)

as Christopher Newman

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 Dave Goldman

as Jakob

as Frank Hunter

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 Wild Bill Hamer

as Joe Slovak

as Francesco Sacredo

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 Self - Pvt. Joker, Full Metal Jacket

as Declan King