Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959 in Loma Linda, California) is an American actor.
Some of his best known roles include Pvt. J.T. "Joker" Davis in Full Metal Jacket, Louden Swain in Vision Quest, Mike Downey in Married to the Mob, Shaw in Cutthroat Island, and Dr. Martin Brenner in Stranger Things.
He has been married to Caridad Rivera Modine since 1980 and they have two children, son Bowman (born 1985) and daughter Ruby (born 1990), who is also an actor.
Selected filmography:
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Film roles
- Private School (1983) as Jim
- Streamers (1983) as Billy
- The Hotel New Hampshire (1983) as Chip Dove/Ernst
- Birdy (1984) as Birdy
- Vision Quest (1985) as Louden Swain
- Full Metal Jacket (1987) as Pvt. J. T. 'Joker' Davis
- Orphans (1987) as Treat
- Married to the Mob (1988) as Mike Downey
- Memphis Belle (1990) as Capt. Dennis Dearborn
- Pacific Heights (1990) as Drake Goodman
- Short Cuts (1993) as Dr. Ralph Wyman
- The Browning Version (1994) as Frank Hunter
- Bye Bye Love (1995) as Dave
- Fluke (1995) as Thomas P. Johnson
- Cutthroat Island (1995) as William Shaw
- The Real Blonde (1997) as Joe
- Notting Hill (1999) as Movie-Within-Movie Actor (uncredited)
- Any Given Sunday (1999) as Dr. Ollie Powers
- Bamboozled (2000) as Himself
- Transporter 2 (2005) as Jefferson Billings
- Mia and the Migoo (2008) as Mr. Houston/Godfrey (voice, English dub)
- A Cat in Paris (2010) as Lucas (voice, English dub)
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Foley
- Jobs (2013) as John Sculley
- The Confirmation (2016) as Kyle
- 47 Meters Down (2017) as Capt. Taylor
- Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) as James Riley
- Wrong Turn (2021) as Scott Shaw
- Breaking News in Yuba County (2021) as Karl Buttons
- Oppenheimer (2023) as Vannevar Bush
- Retribution (2023) as Anders Muller
Television roles
- And the Band Played On (TV movie, 1993) as Dr. Don Francis
- What The Deaf Man Heard (TV movie, 1997) as Sammy Ayers
- Flowers for Algernon (TV movie, 2000) as Charlie Gordon
- Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2 episodes, 2001) as Jonathan 'Jack' William Duncan Robinson
- The West Wing (1 episode, 2003) as Marco Arlens
- Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2 episodes, 2003) as Fritz Gerlich
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 episode, 2005) as Gordon Rickett
- Into the West (1 episode, 2005) as Samson Wheeler
- Weeds (10 episodes, 2007) as Sullivan Groff
- Too Big to Fail (TV movie, 2011) as John Thain
- Proof (10 episodes, 2015) as Ivan Turing
- Stranger Things (19 episodes, 2016–22) as Dr. Martin Brenner
- Himmelsdalen (6 episodes, 2019) as Dr. Fisher
