Matthew Modine

The fabulous Matthew Modine is an award-winning actor and filmmaker, and activist, who is best known for his movies Full Metal Jacket, Birdy, The Dark Knight Rises, and Short Cuts, and for the Netflix TV series Stranger Things, as well as for the shows And the Band Played On, and Weeds. Cycling has been his main mode of transportation since moving from Utah to New York City in 1980, and he heads the pro-bike organisation Bicycle for a Day.

Born and raised in California, Modine made his acting debut when he was 23-years-old with a small role in an episode of ABC Afterschool Special. The following year he made his feature film debut in Baby It’s You, quickly followed up by parts in Private School, and in Robert Altman’s Streamers for which he won Best Actor from the Venice Film Festival. His breakthrough role came as the lead in Alan Parker’s haunting 1984 war drama, Birdy, alongside Nicholas Cage. Since then he has gone on to appear in countless movies, including Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, Pacific Heights, Short Cuts, Cutthroat Island, Notting Hill, Transporter 2, Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, The Hippopotamus, and Oppenheimer. His TV roles have seen him appear in such shows as And the Band Played On, The West Wing, Law & Order, Weeds, and, of course, Stranger Things playing the sinister Dr Martin Brenner.

Modine regularly connects with his hundreds of thousands of followers and fans through Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, posting pictures and comments about his life both on and off the screen. He also has an official website, matthewmodine.com.