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 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.
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Date: 23 March 1959
Special to The New York Times
Beirut Al Akhbar bombed; none hurt; Lebanese citizen born in Russia hurt in another bombing; blasts linked to UAR Pres Nasser attacks on Mideast Communists
Date: 22 March 1959
By A. M. ROSENTHAL
Comment on interest in abstract art, Poland, despite Govt opposition
Date: 22 March 1959
By DENYS SUTTON
Denys SUTTON
Article, Henry Moore: A Sculptor's Vision
Date: 22 March 1959
Colo Sup Ct postpones indefinitely decison on its contempt charge against newsman J Jameson for ed on ct decision
Date: 22 March 1959
Editorial urges Govt recanvass its secrecy policy in light of news blackout on 3 atomic explosions in '58
Date: 23 March 1959
By EMANUEL PERLMUTTER
Emanuel PERLMUTTER
NYC Publishers Assn signs pact with stereotypers
Date: 23 March 1959
CBS Foundation awards
Date: 22 March 1959
By MERRILL FOLSOM
Merrill FOLSOM
Westchester County artists get permission to display works in hosp rooms but are divided on therapeutic value of varying techniques