Matthew Modine
{{short description|American actor (born 1959)}}
{{for|the song|Matthew Modine (song)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Matthew Modine
| image = Matthew Modine by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| caption = Modine at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con
| birth_name = Matthew Avery Modine
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1959|03|22}}
| birth_place = Loma Linda, California, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| education = Mar Vista High School
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|director|producer|screenwriter}}
| website = {{url|matthewmodine.com}}
| years_active = 1982–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Caridad Rivera|1980}}
| children = 2, including Ruby
}}
Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959){{cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/people/matthew-modine-21187367 |title=Matthew Modine - Actor - Biography.com |access-date=October 31, 2017}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.dickclarklicensing.com/PropertyDetails.aspx?propertyID=1571 |title=Golden Globes 1994 "Shortcuts" Special Award |access-date=October 31, 2017}} 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.
Early life and education
Modine, the youngest of seven{{cite web|author=The Hollywood Interview.com |url=http://thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com/2009/10/matthew-modine-hollywood-interview.html |title=The Hollywood Interview (2009) |publisher=Thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com |date=October 31, 2009 |access-date=January 24, 2012}} children, was born on March 22, 1959, in Loma Linda, California, the son of Dolores (née Warner), a bookkeeper, and Mark Alexander Modine, who managed drive-in theaters. He is the nephew of the stage actress Nola Modine Fairbanks, and the great-grandson of the prospector and pioneer Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks.{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/54/Matthew-Modine.html |title=Matthew Modine Biography (1959–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |access-date=January 24, 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800026030/bio |title=Matthew Modine Biography – Yahoo! Movies |publisher=Movies.yahoo.com |access-date=January 24, 2012}} One of his other great-grandfathers was a Swedish immigrant.{{cite web|url=https://tvovermind.com/matthew-modine-facts-things-you-didnt-know/ |title=6 Things You Didn't Know About Stranger Things' Matthew Modine |date=August 16, 2023 |publisher=tvovermind.com |access-date=September 7, 2023}} Modine lived in Utah for several years, moving every year or two. The drive-in theaters his father managed were being torn down because the land beneath them exceeded the value of the theaters. The Modine family returned to Imperial Beach, California, where Matthew attended and graduated from Mar Vista High School in 1977.{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/california/imperialbeach/batman-dark-knight-rises-features-former-ib-resident-874ac965aa |title=Dark Knight Rises Features Former IB Actor Matthew Modine |publisher= patch.com/california/imperialbeach (Imperial Beach Patch) |date=May 31, 2013 |access-date=July 25, 2017}}{{failed verification|date=October 2023}}
Career
= Film =
Modine's first film role was in John Sayles' film Baby It's You (1983). Also that year, he co-starred in the sex comedy Private School, with Phoebe Cates and Betsy Russell. His performances caught the eye of director Harold Becker, who cast him in Vision Quest (1985, filmed 1983), based on Terry Davis's novel. The director Robert Altman propelled Modine to international stardom with his 1983 film adaptation of David Rabe's play Streamers. Modine played Mel Gibson's brother in Mrs. Soffel (1984) and starred with Nicolas Cage in Alan Parker's Birdy (1984); the film was awarded Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Modine turned down the role of LT Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in Top Gun (played by Tom Cruise), because he felt the film's pro-military stance went against his politics.{{cite news|url=https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/encounter/57174/|title=154 Minutes With Matthew Modine|date=June 15–22, 2009|last=Murphy|first=Tim|journal=New York}}
Modine may be best known for his role as Private/Sergeant J.T. "Joker" Davis, the central character of Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket (1987). Subsequently, Modine played the dangerous young criminal Treat in Alan Pakula's 1987 film adaptation of Lyle Kessler's stageplay Orphans. Modine played the goofy, earnest FBI agent Mike Downey in Jonathan Demme's screwball comedy Married to the Mob (1988) opposite Michelle Pfeiffer. In 1990, he led the cast of Memphis Belle, a fictionalized account of the B-17 Flying Fortress. Modine's subsequent roles included Drake Goodman in the thriller Pacific Heights (1990), Dr. Don Francis in the HBO film And the Band Played On (1993), and Dr. Ralph Wyman in the Robert Altman film Short Cuts (1993). For his work in And the Band Played On, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television and for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special, and for his work in Short Cuts, he received a special Golden Globe Award for the ensemble cast.
In 1995, Modine appeared opposite Geena Davis in the romantic action-adventure film Cutthroat Island. He was nominated for a second Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his work in the 1997 television film What the Deaf Man Heard. Modine made his feature directorial debut with If... Dog... Rabbit... (1999), which came after the success of three short films debuting at the Sundance Film Festival: When I Was a Boy, co-directed with Todd Field; Smoking, written by David Sedaris; and Ecce Pirate, written by Modine. Also in 1999, he appeared in Oliver Stone's football drama Any Given Sunday.
In 2003, he guest-starred in The West Wing episode "The Long Goodbye". He portrayed the character Marco, who went to high school with C.J. Cregg (Allison Janney) and who helped her deal with her father's steady mental decline due to Alzheimer's disease. Modine agreed to take the role because he is a longtime friend of Janney. (The two appeared together in a theatrical production of the play Breaking Up directed by Stuart Ross). That same year, he played Fritz Gerlich in the CBS miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003).
In 2004, Modine appeared in Funky Monkey as ex-football star turned spy Alec McCall, who teams up with super-chimp Clemens and his friend Michael Dean (Seth Adkins) to take down the villainous Flick (Taylor Negron). The film was critically panned, yet has gained a cult status.{{cite web|url=http://indiebum.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/an-essay-on-the-brilliance-of-funky-monkey/ |title=An Essay on the Brilliance of "Funky Monkey" | |publisher=Indiebum.wordpress.com |date=May 18, 2011 |access-date=January 24, 2012}} In 2005, Abel Ferrara's Mary won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. In the film, Modine portrays a director recounting the story of Mary Magdalene (Juliette Binoche). The following year, he guest-starred in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Rage" as a serial killer of young girls. In 2010, Modine appeared in The Trial, which was awarded the Parents Television Council's Seal of Approval™. The PTC said: "'The Trial' combines the best features of courtroom drama, murder mystery, and character story. 'The Trial' is a powerful drama which shows the power of healing and hope." Modine played a corrupt Majestic City developer named "Sullivan Groff" throughout Season 3 on Weeds. Groff has affairs with Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins). Also in 2010, Modine appeared in HBO's Too Big to Fail, a film about the 2008 financial crisis. Modine stars as John Thain, former chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch.
His dark comedy I Think I Thought (2008) debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film tells the story of a Thinker (Modine) who ends up in Thinkers Anonymous. Other short films include To Kill an American, Cowboy, and The Love Film. In 2011, he completed Jesus Was a Commie, an avant-garde-dialectical conversation about the world and the prominent issues of modern society. Modine co-directed the short film with Terence Ziegler, the editor of I Think I Thought. Modine's short films have played internationally.{{cite web|author=Jeff Labrecque|url= https://ew.com/article/2013/06/03/matthew-modine-short-films-cutthroat-island/ |title=Matthew Modine on his short-films collection and how making 'Cutthroat Island' felt like being kidnapped |publisher=Entertainment Weekly |date=June 3, 2013 |access-date=June 17, 2020}} Modine completed two more independent films, Family Weekend (2013) and Girl in Progress (2012), opposite Eva Mendes.{{cite news|url=http://www.fangoria.com/new/qa-matthew-modine-talks-his-first-horror-experience-in-altar/|title=Q&A: Matthew Modine Talks His First Horror Experience in "ALTAR"|date=February 19, 2015|last=Gingold|first=Michael|publisher=Fangoria}} In 2012, he appeared in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises as Deputy Commissioner Peter Foley, a Gotham City police officer and peer to Gary Oldman's Commissioner James Gordon. In February 2013, Modine was cast in Ralph Bakshi's animated film Last Days of Coney Island after coming across the film's Kickstarter campaign online.{{cite web|website=Deadline Hollywood|title=Matthew Modine Joins Ralph Bakshi's Crowdsourced 'Last Days Of Coney Island'|first=Jen|last=Yamato|date=February 16, 2013|url=https://deadline.com/2013/02/matthew-modine-ralph-bakshi-last-days-of-coney-island-432611/}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=February 28, 2013|title=Ralph Bakshi's Kickstarter movie needs your help|first=Jeff|last=Labrecque|url=https://ew.com/article/2013/02/28/ralph-bakshi-last-days-of-coney-island/|access-date=June 17, 2020}} In 2014, he co-starred with Olivia Williams, Richard Dillane, and Steve Oram in the horror mystery film Altar.{{cite news|url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/90828/altar-dvd/|title=ALTAR|date=February 19, 2015|last=Gingold|first=Michael|publisher=Fangoria}} In 2015, he played Ivan Turing in the TNT supernatural medical drama Proof.{{Cite press release |url=https://pressroom.turner.com/us/tnt/tnt-greenlights-proof#.VVk6m45Viko |title=TNT Greenlights Supernatural Drama Proof, Starring Jennifer Beals |publisher=Turner Broadcasting System |date=May 7, 2014 |access-date=May 21, 2015}}
In 2016, Modine played Dr. Martin Brenner in the Netflix original series Stranger Things. In 2017, he and his Stranger Things castmates won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. In 2017, Matthew Modine was featured in the music video for "1-800-273-8255", a song by American hip hop artist Logic.{{cite web|url=http://www.rap-up.com/2017/08/17/video-logic-alessia-cara-khalid-1-800-273-8255/|title=Video: Logic feat. Alessia Cara & Khalid – '1-800-273-8255'|work=Rap-Up|date=August 17, 2017|access-date=August 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818011503/http://www.rap-up.com/2017/08/17/video-logic-alessia-cara-khalid-1-800-273-8255/|archive-date=August 18, 2017|url-status=live}} Modine was part of Speed Kills released in November 2018{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/speed-kills-review-john-travolta-1203030361/|title=Film Review: 'Speed Kills'|last=Harvey|first=Dennis|date=November 17, 2018|work=Variety|access-date=November 17, 2018}} as well as several upcoming films such as Foster Boy, Miss Virginia, and The Martini Shot.{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2018/11/matthew-modine-cast-surveillance-cbs-nsa-spy-drama-pilot-1202498686/|title=Matthew Modine To Co-Star In CBS' NSA Spy Drama Pilot 'Surveillance'|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|date=November 9, 2018|work=Deadline|access-date=November 17, 2018}} In 2023 he portrayed Vannevar Bush in Christopher Nolan's biographical thriller Oppenheimer.
= Theater =
Modine appeared in Arthur Miller's Finishing the Picture at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, in Miller's Resurrection Blues at London's Old Vic, and in a stage adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (as Atticus Finch) at Connecticut's Hartford Stage (This production of To Kill a Mockingbird became the most successful play in the theatre's 45-year history), and in 2022/23 at London's Gielgud Theatre.{{cite web |last1=Rizzo |first1=Frank |title=Modine flies to 'Mockingbird' |url=https://variety.com/2009/legit/news/modine-flies-to-mockingbird-1117998342/ |website=Variety |access-date=18 June 2020 |date=11 January 2009}} In 2010, he starred with Abigail Breslin in the 50th Anniversary Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker[http://www.miracleworkeronbroadway.com/ The Miracle Worker on Broadway] Official Web Site at the Circle in the Square theatre.
In fall 2013, Modine starred in a self-parodying comedy, Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas at Los Angeles' Geffen Theatre.
Personal life
Modine married Caridad Rivera, a makeup and wardrobe stylist, in 1980. They have two children: Boman, an assistant film director; and Ruby Modine, an actress, singer and ballet dancer.{{cite journal| last1=Murphy| first1=Desiree| title='Shameless' Star Ruby Modine Explains Why She's Proud of Her Puerto Rican Roots, Teases Season 8 (Exclusive)| url=http://www.etonline.com/shameless-star-ruby-modine-explains-why-shes-proud-her-puerto-rican-roots-teases-season-8-exclusive| journal=Entertainment Tonight| access-date=October 21, 2017| language=en|date=October 12, 2017}}{{cite news| last1=Pena| first1=Xochitl|title=Matthew Modine talks 'Super Sex' and his daughter playing a prostitute| url=http://www.desertsun.com/story/life/entertainment/movies/shortfest/2017/06/19/matthew-modine-talks-super-sex-and-his-daughter-playing-prostitute/409837001/| newspaper=The Desert Sun| location=Palm Springs| access-date=October 21, 2017| language=en| date=June 19, 2017}}{{cite web |url=https://www.rubywyldermodine.com |title=Ruby Wylder Rivera Modine |website=www.rubywyldermodine.com}}
Modine is the subject of the 2005 song "Matthew Modine" by Pony Up.{{cite news| url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2005/04/12/songs-about-going-down-on-celebrities-not-so-simple/| title=Songs About Going Down on Celebrities Not So Simple| first=Jessica| last=Grose| newspaper=the Village Voice| date=April 12, 2005| access-date=July 22, 2021}}{{cite journal| url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6560-pony-up/| title=Pony Up!| journal=Pitchfork| first=Peter| last=Macia| date=March 21, 2005| access-date=July 22, 2021}}
=Activism=
File:Matthew Modine from Full Metal Jacket checking out a Freewheelin bike (2800852879) (cropped).jpg event during the 2008 Democratic National Convention]]
Cycling has been Modine's main mode of transportation since he moved to New York City from Utah in 1980. He heads a pro-bike organization called "Bicycle for a Day" and was honored for his work on June 2, 2009, by the environmental arts and education center on the East River, Solar 1.
In 2019, Modine ran unsuccessfully for SAG-AFTRA national presidential election, challenging incumbent Gabrielle Carteris. Modine's campaign manager and a number of other union members filed protests after the result, alleging election violations.{{cite news| url=https://deadline.com/2019/10/sag-aftra-election-labor-complaint-matthew-modine-campaign-gabrielle-carteris-1202767541/| title=Matthew Modine's Campaign Manager Files SAG-AFTRA Election Complaint With U.S. Labor Department – Update| first=David| last=Robb| date=October 23, 2019| journal=Deadline}} The complaints were unsuccessful, and the investigation found no reason to set aside Cateris's election. Modine ran again in 2021 and was defeated by Fran Drescher by a margin of 52.5% to 47.5%.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-members-elect-fran-drescher-president-union-and-joely-fisher-secretary-treasurer|title=SAG-AFTRA Members Elect Fran Drescher President of Union and Joely Fisher as Secretary-Treasurer|date=2021-09-02|access-date=2021-09-03|website=www.sagaftra.org}}{{Cite web|last=Maddaus|first=Gene|title=Fran Drescher Elected President of SAG-AFTRA, Rival Joely Fisher Wins Secretary-Treasurer|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/fran-drescher-president-sag-aftra-joely-fisher-1235054675/|date=2021-09-02|access-date=2021-09-03|website=Variety|language=en-US}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
!Title !Role !class=unsortable |Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="3" |1983
| Steve | |
| Private School
| Jim Green | |
| Streamers
| Billy | |
| rowspan="3" |1984
| Chip Dove / Ernst | |
| Birdy
| 'Birdy' | |
| Mrs. Soffel
| Jack Biddle | |
| 1985
| Louden Swain | |
| rowspan="2" | 1987
| Private/Sergeant J.T. "Joker" Davis | |
| Orphans
| Treat | |
| rowspan="2" | 1988
| FBI Agent Mike Downey | |
| The Gamble
| Francesco Sacredo | |
| 1989
| Joe Slovak | |
| rowspan="2" |1990
| Captain Dennis Dearborn | |
| Pacific Heights
| Drake Goodman | |
| rowspan="2" |1992
| Equinox | Henry Petosa / Freddy 'Ace' | |
| Wind
| Will Parker | |
| rowspan="3" |1993
| {{TableTBA|None}} | Short film; Co-writer, co-director and co-producer |
| The Tree
| Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man | Short film |
| Short Cuts
| Dr. Ralph Wyman | |
| rowspan="2" |1994
| Frank Hunter | |
| Smoking
| {{TableTBA|None}} | Short film; Director and producer |
| rowspan="3" |1995
| Dave Goldman | |
| Fluke
| Thomas P. Johnson / Voice of Fluke | |
| Cutthroat Island
| William Shaw | |
| rowspan="4" |1997
| Ecce Pirate | {{TableTBA|None}} | Short film; Writer, director and producer |
| The Blackout
| Matty | |
| The Maker
| Walter Schmeiss | |
| The Real Blonde
| Joe | |
| rowspan="3" | 1999
| Movie-Within-Movie Actor | Uncredited |
| If... Dog... Rabbit...
| Johnnie Cooper | Also writer and director |
| Any Given Sunday
| Dr. Ollie Powers | |
| rowspan="2" |2000
| Bartender | |
| Bamboozled
| Himself | |
| rowspan="3" |2001
| 'Sonny' | |
| In the Shadows
| Eric O'Byrne | |
| The Shipment
| Mitch Garrett | |
| rowspan="3" |2003
| Himself | |
| Le Divorce
| Tellman | |
| Hollywood North
| Bobby Myers | |
| 2004
| Alec McCall | |
| rowspan="3" |2005
| Senator Jeff Billings | |
| Mary
| Tony Childress / Jesus | |
| Opa!
| Eric | |
| 2006
| Mel | Also executive producer |
| rowspan="3" |2007
| Johnie Ruby | |
| Have Dreams, Will Travel
| Ben's Father | |
| The Neighbor
| Jeff | |
| rowspan="6" |2008
| I Think I Thought | Joe | Short film; Also writer, director and producer |
| To Kill an American
| {{TableTBA|None}} | Writer, director and producer |
| Cowboy
| Cowboy | Short film; Also writer and director |
| Mia and the Migoo
| Mr. Houston / Godfrey | Voice, English dub |
| The Garden of Eden
| David's Father | |
| Santa, the Fascist Years
| Narrator | Short film; Voice |
| 2009
| Mr. Jack | Also executive producer |
| rowspan="2" |2010
| Mac | Also producer |
| A Cat in Paris
| Lucas | Voice, English dub |
| rowspan="4" | 2011
| Jesus Was a Commie | John Doe | Short film;{{cite web| url=http://www.jesuswasacommiefilm.com| title=Jesus Was A Commie| website=Official Site}} Also writer, director and producer |
| Sunchasers
| {{TableTBA|None}} | Producer |
| Wrinkles
| Juan | Voice, English dub |
| The Flying House
| 'Bertie' | Short film; Also executive producer |
| rowspan="4" |2012
| Somebody | rowspan="2" |{{TableTBA|None}} | rowspan="2" |Short film; Writer, director and producer |
| Plastic Jesus |
| Girl in Progress
| Dr. Harford | |
| The Dark Knight Rises
| Peter Foley | |
| rowspan="3" |2013
| Jobs | |
| Family Weekend
| Duncan Dungy | |
| Cheatin' | rowspan="2" |{{TableTBA|None}} | Executive producer |
| rowspan="3" |2014
| Hyperion | Short film; Associate producer |
| Altar
| Alec Hamilton | |
| Guests
| Theodore Foster | Short film |
| rowspan="5" |2015
| Narrator | Documentary film; Also producer |
| The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
| Theodore Foster | |
| Last Days of Coney Island
| {{TableTBA|None}} | Short film; Executive producer |
| Merry Xmas
| Abe | Also writer and producer |
| Unity
| Narrator | |
| rowspan="6" |2016
| Kyle | |
| Alex & Co: How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
| Bob Riley | |
| Revengeance
| Sid | Uncredited; Also executive producer |
| Super Sex
| {{TableTBA|None}} | Short film; Writer, director and producer |
| Army of One
| Dr. Ross | |
| Stars in Shorts: No Ordinary Love
| Abe | Also co-writer, co-director and co-producer |
| rowspan="2" |2017
| Michael Logan | |
| 47 Meters Down
| Captain Taylor | |
| rowspan="4" | 2018
| James Riley | |
| Speed Kills
| |
| An Actor Prepares
| Charlie | |
| Backtrace
| MacDonald | |
| rowspan="3" |2019
| Keepers of the Wild | {{TableTBA|None}} | Short documentary film; Executive producer |
| Foster Boy
| Michael Trainer | |
| Miss Virginia
| Congressman Cliff Williams | |
| rowspan="2" |2020
| Guardians of Life | Short film |
| Chance
| Mike | |
| rowspan="4" |2021
| The Martini Shot | Steve | |
| Breaking News in Yuba County
| Carl Buttons | |
| Wrong Turn
| Scott Shaw | |
| Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal | |
| 2022
| My Love Affair with Marriage | Bo | Voice; also executive producer |
| rowspan="3"|2023
| |
| Retribution
| Anders Muller | |
| Hard Miles
| Greg Townsend | |
| 2027
| TBA | Filming |
= Television =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
!Title !Role !class=unsortable | Notes |
|---|
| 1982
|Randy |Episode: "Amy & the Angel" |
| rowspan="2"|1988
|Eugene O'Neill |Episode: "Journey Into Genius" |
| Saturday Night Live
|Host |Episode: "Matthew Modine/Edie Brickell & New Bohemians" |
| 1993
|Dr. Don Francis | rowspan="2" |Television film |
| 1994 |
| 1995–1998
|The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |Voice; 78 episodes |
| 1997
|Sammy Ayers |Television film |
| rowspan="2" |1998
|Lawrence Svobida |Episode: "Surviving the Dust Bowl" |
| The American
| Christopher Newman | rowspan="2" | Television film |
| 2000
|Charlie Gordon |
| 2001
|Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story |Jack Robinson |2 episodes |
| 2002
|Redeemer | Paul Freeman | Television film |
| rowspan="3" | 2003
| Marco Arlens | Episode: "The Long Goodbye" |
| Hitler: The Rise of Evil
|2 episodes |
| Expert Witness
| | rowspan="2" |Television film |
| 2004
| Honus Wagner |
| rowspan="2" | 2005
|Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Gordon Rickett | Episode: "Rage" |
| Into the West
|Samson Wheeler |Episode: "Dreams and Schemes" |
| 2006
|Professor Jake Macklin |8 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2007
| rowspan="2" | Sullivan Groff | 12 episodes |
| Good Morning Agrestic
|Short television series; Episode: "Majestic: Gates of Hell" |
| 2008
|Ted Binion | rowspan="2" |Television film |
| 2011 |
| rowspan="2" |2013
|CAT. 8 |Dr. Michael Ranger |2 episodes |
| Anatomy of Violence
|Convict #3 |Television film |
| 2015
|Ivan Turing |10 episodes |
| 2016–2017, 2022, 2025 | Dr. Martin Brenner/Papa | 21 episodes |
| 2017
| Dr. J. Lowe | 3 episodes |
| rowspan="2" |2019
|Sanctuary |Dr. Fisher |8 episodes |
| Surveillance
|The Man in the Red Tie |Television film |
| 2025
|Richard Dreyer |6 episodes |
= Music videos =
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Artist !Notes !Ref. |
| rowspan="2" |1985
| rowspan="2" |Madonna | rowspan="2" |From the film Vision Quest | |
| "Gambler"
| |
| rowspan="1" |2017
| "1-800-273-8255" | |
| 2020
| |
=Theater=
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Play !Role !Venue !Ref. |
| 2004
|Paul |
| 2006
|Skip |
| 2009 |
| 2010
|Captain Keller |
| 2013
|Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas |Himself |Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles |{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2009/legit/markets-festivals/matthew-modine-saves-the-alpacas-1200476084/|title=Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas|last1=Verini|first1=Bob|date=2009-09-17|journal=Variety|access-date=2020-02-12}} |
| 2022
|Atticus Finch |
Awards and nominations
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Association !Category !Work !Result |
| 1983
| rowspan="2" |Venice Film Festival | {{win}} |
| 1993
|Special Volpi Cup for Best Ensemble Cast | rowspan="2" |Short Cuts | {{Won|Recipient}} |
| rowspan="4" |1994
| rowspan="2" |Golden Globe Awards |Special Award for Ensemble Cast {{small|(non-competitive)}} | {{Won|Recipient}} |
| Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
| {{nom}} |
| Independent Spirit Awards
| {{nom}} |
| Primetime Emmy Awards
|Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie |And the Band Played On | {{nom}} |
| 1997
|Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | {{nom}} |
| 2000
|Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | {{nom}} |
| 2008
|Best Narrative Short |I Think I Thought | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="3" |2011
|Founders Prize for Best Short Film | rowspan="2" |Jesus Was a Commie | {{win}} |
| rowspan="2" |Oldenburg International Film Festival
|Best Short Film | {{nom}} |
| Walk of Fame
| {{N/A}} | {{win}} |
| 2012
|Best Short |Jesus Was a Commie | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="2" |2016
|Best Narrative Short Film | rowspan="3" |Super Sex | {{nom}} |
| New Media Film Festival
|Best Short | {{win}} |
| rowspan="3" |2017
|Coronado Island Film Festival |Audience Favorite Award – Favourite Short Film | {{win}} |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards
|Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | {{win}} |
| Dublin International Film Festival
|Special Mention for International Short |Super Sex | {{win}} |
| 2023
|Heartland International Film Festival |Jimmy Stewart Legacy Award, Pioneering Spirit Award |Hard Miles | {{win}} |
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