Actor
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 ...

Known For
Acting
2027 -- Untitled Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Sequel |
2024 -- Hard Miles | Greg Townsend
2023 -- The Martini Shot | Steve
2023 -- Retribution | Anders Muller
2023 -- Oppenheimer | Vannevar Bush
2023 -- My Love Affair with Marriage | Bo (voice)
2023 -- Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations | Narrator (voice)
2021 -- Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal | Rick Singer
2021 -- Against the Current | Narrator
2021 -- Breaking News in Yuba County | Karl Buttons
2021 -- Wrong Turn | Scott Shaw
2020 -- Chance | Coach Mike
2020 -- Guardians of Life |
2019 -- Miss Virginia | Congressman Cliff Williams
2019 -- Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self
2019 -- Foster Boy | Michael Trainer
2018 -- Backtrace | MacDonald
2018 -- Speed Kills | George Bush
2018 -- Sicario: Day of the Soldado | Secretary of Defense James Riley
2018 -- Filmworker | Self
2017 -- 47 Meters Down | Taylor
2017 -- The Hippopotamus | Michael Logan
2016 -- How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents | Bob Riley
2016 -- Army of One | Dr. Ross
2016 -- Revengeance | Sid
2016 -- The Confirmation | Kyle
2015 -- Unity | Narrator (voice)
2015 -- The Brainwashing of My Dad | Himself - Narrator
2015 -- Merry Xmas | Abe
2015 -- The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards | Theodore Foster
2014 -- Altar | Alec
2014 -- Kubrick Remembered | Self
2014 -- Guests | Theodore Foster
2014 -- How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire | Himself
2013 -- Jobs | John Sculley
2013 -- Family Weekend | Duncan Dungy
2012 -- The Dark Knight Rises | Foley
2012 -- Girl in Progress | Dr. Harford
2011 -- Too Big to Fail | John Thain
2011 -- Adventures in Plymptoons! | Himself
2011 -- Jesus Was a Commie | Himself
2010 -- The Trial | Mac
2010 -- Mulberry St. | Self
2009 -- Little Fish, Strange Pond | Mr. Jack
2009 -- PoliWood | Self
2008 -- Santa: The Fascist Years | Narrator (voice)
2008 -- Sex and Lies in Sin City | Ted Binion
2008 -- Cowboy | Cowboy
2008 -- I Think I Thought | Joe
2008 -- Garden of Eden | David's Father
2007 -- The Neighbor | Jeff
2007 -- Go Go Tales | Johnie Ruby
2007 -- Have Dreams, Will Travel | Ben's Father
2006 -- Kettle of Fish | Mel
2005 -- Mary | Tony Childress / Jesus
2005 -- Opa! | Eric
2005 -- Odyssey in Rome |
2005 -- Transporter 2 | Jefferson Billings
2004 -- Funky Monkey | Alec McCall
2004 -- The Winning Season | Honus Wagner
2004 -- Mon voisin du dessus | Jeff
2004 -- Hollywood North | Bobby Myers
2003 -- Le Divorce | Tellman
2003 -- Overnight | Self
2002 -- Redeemer | Paul Freeman
2001 -- The Shipment | Mitch Garrett
2001 -- In the Shadows | Eric
2001 -- Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures | Self
2001 -- Nobody's Baby | Sonny
2000 -- Bamboozled | Himself
2000 -- Very Mean Men | Bartender
2000 -- Flowers for Algernon | Charlie Gordon
1999 -- Any Given Sunday | Dr. Ollie Powers
1999 -- If... Dog... Rabbit | Johnnie Cooper
1999 -- Notting Hill | Actor (uncredited)
1998 -- The American | Christopher Newman
1998 -- Surviving the Dust Bowl | Lawrence Svobida (voice)
1998 -- The Real Blonde | Joe
1998 -- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman | Self
1997 -- What the Deaf Man Heard | Sammy Ayers
1997 -- The Maker | Walter Schmeiss
1997 -- The Blackout | Matty
1997 -- Ecce Pirate | Narrator
1995 -- Cutthroat Island | William Shaw
1995 -- Fluke | Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
1995 -- Bye Bye Love | Dave Goldman
1995 -- American Cinema | Narrator
1994 -- Jacob | Jakob
1994 -- The Browning Version | Frank Hunter
1993 -- Short Cuts | Dr. Ralph Wyman
1993 -- And the Band Played On | Dr. Don Francis
1993 -- Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country | Self
1993 -- The Tree | Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
1992 -- Equinox | Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
1992 -- Wind | Will Parker
1990 -- Pacific Heights | Drake Goodman
1990 -- Memphis Belle | Dennis Dearborn
1989 -- The Lemon Sisters | Wild Bill Hamer
1989 -- Gross Anatomy | Joe Slovak
1988 -- The Gamble | Francesco Sacredo
1988 -- Married to the Mob | Mike Downey
1987 -- Orphans | Treat
1987 -- Full Metal Jacket | Pvt. Joker
1985 -- Vision Quest | Louden Swain
1984 -- Mrs. Soffel | Jack Biddle
1984 -- Birdy | Birdy
1984 -- The Hotel New Hampshire | Chip Dove / Ernst
1983 -- Streamers | Billy
1983 -- Private School | Jim Green
1983 -- Baby It's You | Steve
1982 -- Amy and the Angel | Randy
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