
Matthew Modine
Known for: Acting
Born: March 22, 1959
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

Full Metal Jacket
1987

Jacob
1994

And the Band Played On
1993

Fluke
1995

Vision Quest
1985

Birdy
1984

Bye Bye Love
1995

Sex and Lies in Sin City
2009

The Blackout
1997

Memphis Belle
1990

In the Shadows
2001

Flowers for Algernon
2000

Wind
1992

The Real Blonde
1998

Funky Monkey
2004

Kettle of Fish
2006

The Neighbor
2007

Gross Anatomy
1989

Streamers
1983

The Trial
2010

Little Fish, Strange Pond
2009

Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2023

Hollywood North
2004

The Maker
1997

What the Deaf Man Heard
1997

Opa!
2005

The Winning Season
2004

The Shipment
2001

Equinox
1992

Redeemer
2002

If... Dog... Rabbit
1999

The Martini Shot
2023

Hard Miles
2024

The Gamble
1988

Against the Current
2021

Jesus Was a Commie
2011

I Think I Thought
2008

Very Mean Men
2000

Santa: The Fascist Years
2008

The American
1998

Chance
2020

Foster Boy
2019

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
2021
World Birth Day
2002
The Splendid Thing

Cutthroat Island
1995

Married to the Mob
1988

Pacific Heights
1990

Orphans
1987

Altar
2014

Guests
2014

The Brainwashing of My Dad
2015

The Hippopotamus
2017

Miss Virginia
2019

Surviving the Dust Bowl
1998

Protector
2026

A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket

Mrs. Soffel
1984

Mary
2005

Private School
1983

The Browning Version
1994

Go Go Tales
2008

Girl in Progress
2012

Family Weekend
2013

Cowboy
2008

47 Meters Down
2017

Backtrace
2018

My Love Affair with Marriage
2023

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life

Retribution
2023

Speed Kills
2018

Filmworker
2018

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993

Merry Xmas
2015

Ecce Pirate
1997

Transporter 2
2005

Nobody's Baby
2001

Odyssey in Rome
2005

Revengeance
2016

Garden of Eden
2008

Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007

The Confirmation
2016

Guardians of Life
2020

Any Given Sunday
1999

Too Big to Fail
2011

Mulberry St.
2010

Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018

Wrong Turn
2021

Le Divorce
2003

Breaking News in Yuba County
2021

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027

Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
2026

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001

The Dark Knight Rises
2012

Amy and the Angel
1982
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
2014

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015

Overnight
2003

Kubrick Remembered
2014

Jobs
2013

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016

Army of One
2016

The Tree
1993

The Hotel New Hampshire
1984

Short Cuts
1993

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019

PoliWood
2009

Baby It's You
1983

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998

Oppenheimer
2023

The Lemon Sisters
1989

Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011

Bamboozled
2000

Notting Hill
1999

Unity
2015
The Tony Danza Show
2004

The Bedford Diaries
2006

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Into the West
2005

So Graham Norton
1998

Weeds
2005

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001

The West Wing
1999

Proof
2015

CAT. 8
2013

Saturday Night Live
1975

100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023

Stranger Things
2016

Hitler: The Rise of Evil
2003

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

Zero Day
2025

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

The Better Sister
2025

Lo + plus
1995

The Simpsons
1989

American Cinema
1994