Matthew Modine
Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an award-winning American actor. His film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, ex-CIA/football star turned chimpanzee trainer Alec McCall in Funky Monkey, and the oversexed Sullivan Groff in Weeds.
Acted in
Zero Day
2025
as Richard Dreyer
Hard Miles
2024
as Greg Townsend
The Martini Shot
2023
as Steve
Retribution
2023
as Anders Muller
Oppenheimer
2023
as Vannevar Bush
My Love Affair with Marriage
2023
as Bo (voice)
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
as Self
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
2021
as Rick Singer
Against the Current
2021
as Narrator
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021
as Karl Buttons
Wrong Turn
2021
as Scott Shaw
Chance
2020
as Coach Mike
Guardians of Life
2020
Miss Virginia
2019
as Congressman Cliff Williams
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
as Self
Foster Boy
2019
as Michael Trainer
Backtrace
2018
as MacDonald
Speed Kills
2018
as George Bush
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
as Secretary of Defense James Riley
Filmworker
2018
as Self
47 Meters Down
2017
as Taylor
The Hippopotamus
2017
as Michael Logan
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016
as Bob Riley
Army of One
2016
as Dr. Ross
Revengeance
2016
as Sid
Stranger Things
2016
as Martin Brenner
The Confirmation
2016
as Kyle
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
The Brainwashing of My Dad
2015
as Himself - Narrator
Proof
2015
as Ivan Turing
Merry Xmas
2015
as Abe
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
as Theodore Foster
Altar
2014
as Alec
Kubrick Remembered
2014
as Self
Guests
2014
as Theodore Foster
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
2014
as Himself
Jobs
2013
as John Sculley
Family Weekend
2013
as Duncan Dungy
CAT. 8
2013
as Dr. Michael Ranger
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
as Foley
Girl in Progress
2012
as Dr. Harford
Too Big to Fail
2011
as John Thain
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011
as Himself
Jesus Was a Commie
2011
as Himself
The Trial
2010
as Mac
Mulberry St.
2010
as Self
Little Fish, Strange Pond
2009
as Mr. Jack
PoliWood
2009
as Self
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008
as Narrator (voice)
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2008
as Ted Binion
I Think I Thought
2008
as Joe
Garden of Eden
2008
as David's Father
The Neighbor
2007
as Jeff
Go Go Tales
2007
as Johnie Ruby
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007
as Ben's Father
Kettle of Fish
2006
as Mel
The Bedford Diaries
2006
as Jake Macklin
Mary
2005
as Tony Childress / Jesus
Opa!
2005
as Eric
Odyssey in Rome
2005
Weeds
2005
as Sullivan Groff
Transporter 2
2005
as Jefferson Billings
Into the West
2005
as Samson Wheeler
Funky Monkey
2004
as Alec McCall
The Winning Season
2004
as Honus Wagner
Mon voisin du dessus
2004
as Jeff
Hollywood North
2004
as Bobby Myers
Le Divorce
2003
as Tellman
Overnight
2003
as Self
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
2003
as Fritz Gerlich
Redeemer
2002
as Paul Freeman
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
as Jack Robinson
The Shipment
2001
as Mitch Garrett
In the Shadows
2001
as Eric
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
as Self
Nobody's Baby
2001
as Sonny
Bamboozled
2000
as Himself
Very Mean Men
2000
as Bartender
Flowers for Algernon
2000
as Charlie Gordon
Any Given Sunday
1999
as Dr. Ollie Powers
One Last Score
1999
as Johnnie Cooper
The West Wing
1999
as Marco Arlens
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Gordon Rickett
Notting Hill
1999
as Actor (uncredited)
The American
1998
as Christopher Newman
Surviving the Dust Bowl
1998
as Lawrence Svobida (voice)
The Real Blonde
1998
as Joe
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998
as Self
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997
as Sammy Ayers
The Maker
1997
as Walter Schmeiss
The Blackout
1997
as Matty
Ecce Pirate
1997
as Narrator
Cutthroat Island
1995
as William Shaw
Fluke
1995
as Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke
Bye Bye Love
1995
as Dave Goldman
American Cinema
1995
as Narrator
Jacob
1994
as Jakob
The Browning Version
1994
as Frank Hunter
And the Band Played On
1993
as Dr. Don Francis
Short Cuts
1993
as Dr. Ralph Wyman
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993
as Self
The Tree
1993
as Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man
Equinox
1992
as Henry Petosa / Freddy Ace
Wind
1992
as Will Parker
Pacific Heights
1990
as Drake Goodman
Memphis Belle
1990
as Dennis Dearborn
The Lemon Sisters
1989
as Wild Bill Hamer
Gross Anatomy
1989
as Joe Slovak
The Gamble
1988
as Francesco Sacredo
Married to the Mob
1988
as Mike Downey
Orphans
1987
as Treat
Full Metal Jacket
1987
as Pvt. Joker
Vision Quest
1985
as Louden Swain
Mrs. Soffel
1984
as Jack Biddle
Birdy
1984
as Birdy
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
as Chip Dove / Ernst
Streamers
1983
as Billy
Private School
1983
as Jim Green
Baby It's You
1983
as Steve
Amy and the Angel
1982
as Randy
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Sammy Ayers
Cowboy
as Cowboy
The Better Sister
as Bill Braddock