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:
- Private School
- The Hotel New Hampshire
- Streamers
- Birdy
- Vision Quest
- Full Metal Jacket
- Married to the Mob
- Gross Anatomy
- Orphans
- Memphis Belle
- What The Deaf Man Heard
- Pacific Heights
- Wind
- Equinox
- And the Band Played On
- Short Cuts
- The Browning Version
- Cutthroat Island
- Any Given Sunday
- Notting Hill
- Bamboozled
- The West Wing
- Le Divorce
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Into The West
- Too Big To Fail
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Jobs
- Proof
- Stranger Things
- Sicario: Day of the Soldado
- Breaking News in Yuba County
- Oppenheimer
- Retribution (2023)
