Matthew Modine
Born 1959 · American actor and filmmaker
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). 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).
Matthew Modine, in order
- 1983 Baby It's You: acted · directed by John Sayles
- 1983 Private School: acted · directed by Noel Black
- 1983 Streamers: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 55%, audiences 44% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Plex
- 1984 Birdy: acted · directed by Alan Parker · critics 84%, audiences 83% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Fawesome
- 1984 Mrs. Soffel: acted · directed by Gillian Armstrong
- 1984 The Hotel New Hampshire: acted · directed by Tony Richardson
- 1985 Vision Quest: acted · directed by Harold Becker
- 1987 Full Metal Jacket: acted · directed by Stanley Kubrick · critics 84%, audiences 94% · streaming on fuboTV, HBO Max, MGM+
- 1987 Orphans: acted · directed by Alan J. Pakula
- 1988 Married to the Mob: acted · directed by Jonathan Demme
- 1988 The Gamble: acted · directed by Carlo Vanzina
- 1989 Gross Anatomy: acted · directed by Thom Eberhardt
- 1990 Memphis Belle: acted · directed by Michael Caton-Jones
- 1990 Pacific Heights: acted · directed by John Schlesinger
- 1992 Equinox: acted · directed by Alan Rudolph
- 1992 Wind: acted · directed by Carroll Ballard
- 1993 And the Band Played On: acted · directed by Roger Spottiswoode
- 1993 Short Cuts: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 95%, audiences 88%
- 1994 Jacob (TV movie): acted · directed by Peter Hall
- 1994 The Browning Version: acted · directed by Mike Figgis · critics 76%, audiences 78% · streaming on Hoopla
- 1995 Bye Bye Love: acted · directed by Sam Weisman · critics 20%, audiences 50%
- 1995 Cutthroat Island: acted · directed by Renny Harlin
- 1995 Fluke: acted · directed by Carlo Carlei
- 1997 Ecce Pirate: directed, wrote
- 1997 The Blackout: acted · directed by Abel Ferrara
- 1997 The Maker: acted · directed by Tim Hunter
- 1997 The Real Blonde: acted · directed by Tom DiCillo
- 1997 What the Deaf Man Heard (TV movie): acted · directed by John Kent Harrison
- 1999 Any Given Sunday: acted · directed by Oliver Stone
- 1999 If... Dog... Rabbit...: directed, wrote, acted
- 2000 Bamboozled: acted · directed by Spike Lee · critics 54%, audiences 74%
- 2000 Flowers for Algernon: acted · directed by Jeff Bleckner
- 2001 In the Shadows: acted · directed by Ric Roman Waugh
- 2001 Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (TV movie): acted · directed by Brian Henson
- 2001 Nobody's Baby: acted · directed by David Seltzer
- 2001 Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures: acted · directed by Jan Harlan · critics 86%, audiences 89%
- 2001 The Shipment: acted · directed by Alex Wright
- 2003 Hitler: The Rise of Evil (TV series): acted · directed by Christian Duguay
- 2003 Hollywood North: acted · directed by Peter O'Brian
- 2003 Le Divorce: acted · directed by James Ivory · critics 34%, audiences 26%
- 2003 The West Wing (TV series): acted · directed by Alex Graves and Christopher Misiano · critics 81%, audiences 95% · streaming on Netflix, HBO Max
- 2004 Funky Monkey: acted · directed by Harry Basil
- 2004 The Winning Season (TV movie): acted · directed by John Kent Harrison
- 2005 Mary: acted · directed by Abel Ferrara
- 2005 Opa!: acted · directed by Udayan Prasad
- 2005 Transporter 2: acted · directed by Louis Leterrier
- 2005 Weeds (TV series): acted · directed by Craig Zisk
- 2006 The Bedford Diaries (TV series): acted
- 2007 Go Go Tales: acted · directed by Abel Ferrara
- 2007 Have Dreams, Will Travel: acted · directed by Brad Isaacs
- 2009 Little Fish, Strange Pond: acted · directed by Gregory Dark
- 2010 The Trial: acted · directed by Gary Wheeler
- 2011 Too Big to Fail (TV movie): acted · directed by Curtis Hanson
- 2012 Girl in Progress: acted · directed by Patricia Riggen
- 2012 The Dark Knight Rises: acted · directed by Christopher Nolan · critics 87%, audiences 90% · streaming on HBO Max
- 2013 Jobs: acted · directed by Joshua Michael Stern · critics 27%, audiences 40% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Fandango at Home (free)
- 2015 Proof (TV series): acted
- 2015 Unity: acted · directed by Shaun Monson · streaming on Fandango at Home (free)
- 2016 Alex & Co: How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents: acted · directed by Luca Lucini
- 2016 Army of One: acted · directed by Larry Charles · critics 25%, audiences 28% · streaming on Roku Channel, Hoopla, Plex
- 2016–22 Stranger Things (TV series): acted · directed by Andrew Stanton and Matt Duffer · critics 90%, audiences 82% · streaming on Netflix
- 2016 Super Sex: directed, wrote
- 2016 The Brainwashing of My Dad: produced · directed by Jen Senko
- 2016 The Confirmation: acted · directed by Bob Nelson
- 2017 47 Meters Down: acted · directed by Johannes Roberts · critics 53%, audiences 36% · streaming on Philo, Starz
- 2018 Sicario: Day of the Soldado: acted · directed by Stefano Sollima
- 2019 Foster Boy: acted · directed by Youssef Delara
- 2019 Miss Virginia: acted · directed by R.J. Daniel Hanna
- 2021 Breaking News in Yuba County: acted · directed by Tate Taylor
- 2021 Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal: acted · directed by Chris Smith
- 2021 Wrong Turn: acted · directed by Mike P. Nelson
- 2023 Hard Miles: acted · directed by R.J. Daniel Hanna
- 2023 Oppenheimer: acted · directed by Christopher Nolan · critics 93%, audiences 91% · streaming on Peacock, Fandango at Home (free)
- 2023 Retribution: acted · directed by Nimród Antal · critics 30%, audiences 67%
- 2023 The Martini Shot: acted · directed by Stephen Wallis
- 2025 Protector: acted · directed by Adrian Grünberg
- 2025 Zero Day (TV series): acted · directed by Lesli Linka Glatter · critics 53%, audiences 53% · streaming on Netflix
- 2026 This Mortal Coil: acted · directed by Stephen Wallis
- 2027 Godzilla x Kong: Supernova: acted · directed by Darrin Prescott and Grant Sputore
- 2027 The Splendid Thing: directed
- This Mortal Coil: acted · directed by Stephen Wallis