Matthew Modine

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1959-03-22 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Loma Linda, California, USA

Matthew Modine

Biography

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 te...

Acting

1987

Full Metal Jacket

as Pvt. Joker

1995

Cutthroat Island

as William Shaw

1993

Short Cuts

as Dr. Ralph Wyman

1988

Married to the Mob

as Mike Downey

1994

Jacob

as Jakob

1993

And the Band Played On

as Dr. Don Francis

1990

Pacific Heights

as Drake Goodman

1982

1995

Fluke

as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke

1985

Vision Quest

as Louden Swain

1984

Birdy

as Birdy

1995

Bye Bye Love

as Dave Goldman

2008

2008

Garden of Eden

as David's Father

1987

Orphans

as Treat

1984

Mrs. Soffel

as Jack Biddle

1997

The Blackout

as Matty

1999

Any Given Sunday

as Dr. Ollie Powers

2005

Transporter 2

as Jefferson Billings

1990

Memphis Belle

as Dennis Dearborn

2001

2000

Flowers for Algernon

as Charlie Gordon

1992

Wind

as Will Parker

1998

2007

2004

Funky Monkey

as Alec McCall

2006

2005

Mary

as Tony Childress / Jesus

2011

Too Big to Fail

as John Thain

2007

1989

Gross Anatomy

as Joe Slovak

1983

Streamers

as Billy

2010

The Trial

as Mac

2001

1983

Private School

as Jim Green

1994

The Browning Version

as Frank Hunter

2023

2007

Go Go Tales

as Johnie Ruby

2012

Girl in Progress

as Dr. Harford

2004

Hollywood North

as Bobby Myers

1997

The Maker

as Walter Schmeiss

1997

2005

Opa!

as Eric

2004

The Winning Season

as Honus Wagner

2001

The Shipment

as Mitch Garrett

2023

Retribution

as Anders Muller

1992

Equinox

as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace

2013

Jobs

as John Sculley

2013

Family Weekend

as Duncan Dungy

2008

Cowboy

as Cowboy

2002

Redeemer

as Paul Freeman

1999

If... Dog... Rabbit

as Johnnie Cooper

2023

2010

1983

2024

Hard Miles

as Greg Townsend

1988

The Gamble

as Francesco Sacredo

2021

2023

Oppenheimer

as Vannevar Bush

2014

Altar

as Alec

2015

Unity

as Narrator (voice)

2014

Guests

as Theodore Foster

2016

2017

2015

The Brainwashing of My Dad

as Himself - Narrator

2017

The Hippopotamus

as Michael Logan

2011

2000

Bamboozled

as Himself

2000

Very Mean Men

as Bartender

2003

Overnight

as Self

2008

Santa: The Fascist Years

as Narrator (voice)

2018

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

as Secretary of Defense James Riley

1998

The American

as Christopher Newman

2018

Backtrace

as MacDonald

2018

Speed Kills

as George Bush

2018

Filmworker

as Self

1999

Notting Hill

as Actor (uncredited)

2019

Miss Virginia

as Congressman Cliff Williams

2016

Army of One

as Dr. Ross

2021

Wrong Turn

as Scott Shaw

2015

2020

Chance

as Coach Mike

1993

The Tree

as Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man

2003

Le Divorce

as Tellman

2019

Foster Boy

as Michael Trainer

2016

1995

American Cinema

as Narrator

2021

1998

Surviving the Dust Bowl

as Lawrence Svobida (voice)

1984

The Hotel New Hampshire

as Chip Dove / Ernst

1989

The Lemon Sisters

as Wild Bill Hamer

2009

PoliWood

as Self

1997

Ecce Pirate

as Narrator

Production

2008

Cowboy

as Writer

2008

Cowboy

as Director

1997

Ecce Pirate

as Director

1997

Ecce Pirate

as Camera Operator

1997

Ecce Pirate

as Producer

1997

Ecce Pirate

as Writer

1997

Ecce Pirate

as Supervising Sound Editor

1997

Ecce Pirate

as Music Supervisor

1997

Ecce Pirate

as Post Production Coordinator

1997

Ecce Pirate

as Costume Supervisor

1997

Ecce Pirate

as Set Decoration

1997

Ecce Pirate

as Cinematography

1997

Ecce Pirate

as Casting

2023

1999

1999

1993

When I Was a Boy

as Producer

1993

1993

When I Was a Boy

as Art Direction

1993

When I Was a Boy

as Music Supervisor

1993

1993

1993

When I Was a Boy

as Director

2022

The Fuse

as Executive Producer

2021

2015

Last Days of Coney Island

as Executive Producer

2016

Super Sex

as Director

2016

Super Sex

as Producer

2023

Downwind

as Producer

2009

Little Fish, Strange Pond

as Executive Producer

2011

2011

Jesus Was a Commie

as Executive Producer

2011

2016

Super Sex

as Writer

2008

2008

2008

2024

I Hope This Helps!

as Executive Producer

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Keepers of the Wild

as Executive Producer

2023

My Love Affair with Marriage

as Executive Producer

2019

Red Ink

as Thanks

2010

The Trial

as Producer

2015

Merry Xmas

as Writer

2006

Kettle of Fish

as Executive Producer

2016

Revengeance

as Executive Producer

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