Biography
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).
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Awards & recognition
- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 2017
- Volpi Cup — Best Actor · 1983
Filmography50+ titles
Stranger Things
Protector
The West Wing
Miss Virginia
Full Metal Jacket
Oppenheimer
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Simpsons
The Dark Knight Rises
Unity
Weeds
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Notting Hill
Filmworker
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Fluke
Birdy
Zero Day
Too Big to Fail
The Better Sister
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Saturday Night Live
Downwind
Hard Miles
Operation Varsity Blues
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Any Given Sunday
Foster Boy
Memphis Belle
Retribution
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Proof
CAT. 8
PoliWood
The Browning Version
And the Band Played On
The Hippopotamus
The Confirmation
What the Deaf Man Heard
Vision Quest
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Family Weekend
Transporter 2
Overnight
Bamboozled
Pacific Heights
Wind
Jobs
Married to the Mob
Mrs. Soffel