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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.

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
as Self - Narrator

Protector
as Colonel Joseph Lavelle

The Better Sister
as Bill Braddock

Zero Day
as Richard Dreyer

Hard Miles
as Greg Townsend

Retribution
as Anders Muller

Oppenheimer
as Vannevar Bush

The Martini Shot
as Steve

My Love Affair with Marriage
as Bo (voice)

100 Years of Warner Bros.
as Self

Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
as Narrator (voice)

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
as Rick Singer

Against the Current
as Narrator

Breaking News in Yuba County
as Karl Buttons

Wrong Turn
as Scott Shaw

Chance
as Coach Mike

Guardians of Life

Miss Virginia
as Congressman Cliff Williams

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self

Foster Boy
as Michael Trainer

Backtrace
as MacDonald

Speed Kills
as George Bush

Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Secretary of Defense James Riley

Filmworker
as Self

47 Meters Down
as Taylor

The Hippopotamus
as Michael Logan

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
as Bob Riley

Army of One
as Dr. Ross

Revengeance
as Sid

Stranger Things
as Dr. Martin Brenner

The Confirmation
as Kyle

Unity
as Narrator (voice)

The Brainwashing of My Dad
as Himself - Narrator

Proof
as Ivan Turing

Merry Xmas
as Abe

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
as Theodore Foster

Altar
as Alec

Kubrick Remembered
as Self

Guests
as Theodore Foster
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
as Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self

Jobs
as John Sculley

Family Weekend
as Duncan Dungy

CAT. 8
as Dr. Michael Ranger

The Dark Knight Rises
as Foley

Girl in Progress
as Dr. Harford

Too Big to Fail
as John Thain
Adventures in Plymptoons!
as Self

Jesus Was a Commie
as Himself

The Trial
as Mac

Mulberry St.
as Self

Little Fish, Strange Pond
as Mr. Jack

Sex and Lies in Sin City
as Ted Binion

PoliWood
as Self

Santa: The Fascist Years
as Narrator (voice)

Go Go Tales
as Johnie Ruby

Cowboy
as Cowboy

I Think I Thought
as Joe

Garden of Eden
as David's Father