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Matthew Modine
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 television, he portrayed Dr. Don Francis in the HBO film And the Band Played On (1993), Sullivan Groff on Weeds (2007), Ivan Turing in Proof (2015), and Dr. Martin Brenner on Netflix's Stranger Things (2016–2022).
Modine has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his work in And the Band Played On and What the Deaf Man Heard and received a special Golden Globe for him and the rest of the ensemble in Short Cuts. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for And the Band Played On.
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Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Protector
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
Hard Miles
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
Retribution
The Martini Shot
Oppenheimer
My Love Affair with Marriage
Against the Current
Wrong Turn
Breaking News in Yuba County
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Guardians of Life
Chance
Miss Virginia
Foster Boy
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Backtrace
Speed Kills
Filmworker
47 Meters Down
The Hippopotamus
The Confirmation
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Army of One
Revengeance
Unity
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards