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Matthew Modine
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…
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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.
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2026
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
Movie Self - Narrator
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2026
Protector
Movie Colonel Joseph Lavelle
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2025
The Better Sister
TV show Bill Braddock
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2025
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Movie Self - 'Stranger Things' Dr Brenner
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2025
Zero Day
TV show Richard Dreyer
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2024
I Hope This Helps!
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Hard Miles
Movie Greg Townsend
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2023
Retribution
Movie Anders Muller
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2023
I Am What You Imagine
Movie Director
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2023
Oppenheimer
Movie Vannevar Bush
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2023
The Martini Shot
Movie Steve
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2023
My Love Affair with Marriage
Movie Bo (voice)
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2023
100 Years of Warner Bros.
TV show Self
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2023
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2023
Downwind
Movie Producer
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2022
The Fuse
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Movie Rick Singer
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2021
Against the Current
Movie Narrator
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2021
Breaking News in Yuba County
Movie Karl Buttons
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2021
Wrong Turn
Movie Scott Shaw
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2020
Chance
Movie Coach Mike
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2020
Guardians of Life
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2019
Miss Virginia
Movie Congressman Cliff Williams
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2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Movie Self
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2019
Foster Boy
Movie Michael Trainer
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2019
Red Ink
Movie Thanks
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2018
Backtrace
Movie MacDonald
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2018
Speed Kills
Movie George Bush
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2018
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Movie Secretary of Defense James Riley
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2018
Filmworker
Movie Self
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2018
The Green Fog
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2017
47 Meters Down
Movie Taylor
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2017
The Hippopotamus
Movie Michael Logan
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2016
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Movie Bob Riley
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2016
Army of One
Movie Dr. Ross
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2016
Revengeance
Movie Sid
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2016
Stranger Things
TV show Dr. Martin Brenner
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2016
Super Sex
Movie Director
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2016
The Confirmation
Movie Kyle
