Last summer, he starred in Netflix’s Stranger Things as Dr. Martin Brenner, the man in charge of the experiments at Hawkins Laboratory, which included testing the full power of the telekinetic girl Eleven and exploring the parallel dimension informally known as the Upside Down.
In more recent years, he’s appeared in The Dark Knight Rises, Jobs, Army of One and the TV series Weeds.
Matthew Modine has been acting in Hollywood since the early 1980s, with his early notable credits including Birdy, Full Metal Jacket, Vision Quest and Pacific Heights.
Soldado provides Modine another opportunity to play an authority figure, though as anyone who saw Sicario knows, not everyone in the government or law enforcement is necessarily trustworthy.