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Matthew Modine

American actor and filmmaker · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1959 · age 67

Matthew Avery Modine 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).

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2026ProtectorFilm, Producer2025The Better SisterSeries, Bill Braddock2021Breaking News in Yuba CountyFilm, Karl Buttons2017Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama SeriesAward47 Meters DownFilm, 2017Taylor2016Stranger ThingsSeries, Dr. Martin BrennerArmy of OneFilm, 2016Dr. Ross2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSeries2013Family WeekendFilm, Duncan Dungy2011Too Big to FailFilm, John Thain2006The Bedford DiariesSeries, Jake Macklin2004The Tony Danza ShowSeries2003Le DivorceFilm, Tellman2001Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den FilmFilm1999Law & Order: Special Victims UnitSeries, Gordon RickettAny Given SundayFilm, 1999Dr. Ollie Powers1995Lo + plusSeriesBye Bye LoveFilm, 1995Dave Goldman1990Memphis BelleFilm, Dennis Dearborn1989The SimpsonsSeries, Dr. Stern (voice)1988Married to the MobFilm, Mike Downey1985Vision QuestFilm, Louden Swain1983Volpi Cup for Best ActorAwardPrivate SchoolFilm, 1983Jim Green1982American PlayhouseSeries, Eugene O'Neill1959Born22 March 1959

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  • Protector 2026
  • Full Metal Jacket 1987
  • Oppenheimer 2023
  • The Dark Knight Rises 2012
  • Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film 2001

Filmography 40

195 credits on file

Television 23

Awards

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series2017
Volpi Cup for Best Actor1983

About this person

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).

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Born 1959 · age 67