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, includ ... ing 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Modine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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| Berlin International Film Festival | Best Actor | Full Metal Jacket | Nominated |
Stranger Things
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Episodes: 20
First Aired: Jul 15, 2016
Weeds
as Sullivan Groff
Episodes: 15
First Aired: Aug 07, 2005
Proof
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First Aired: Jun 16, 2015
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CAT. 8
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Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 08, 2013
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
as Fritz Gerlich
Episodes: 2
First Aired: May 18, 2003
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Gordon Rickett
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1999
Hallmark Hall of Fame
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Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 24, 1951
The West Wing
as Marco Arlens
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 22, 1999
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as Bill Braddock
Episodes: 1
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Episodes: 3
First Aired: Sep 05, 1988
100 Years of Warner Bros.
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Episodes: 2
First Aired: May 25, 2023
The Tony Danza Show
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 2004
So Graham Norton
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Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 03, 1998
Saturday Night Live
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Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 11, 1975
Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 25, 2014
Lo + plus
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Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 04, 1995
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