Matthew David McConaughey (born November 4, 1969) is an American actor. He first gained notice for his supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993), which was considered by many to be his breakout role. After a number of supporting roles in films including Angels in the Outfield (1994) and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), his breakthrough performance as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996). He followed this with leading performances in the science fiction film Contact (1997), the historical drama Amistad (1997), the comedy-drama The Newton Boys (1998), the satire EDtv (1999), the war film U-571 (2000), and the psychological thriller Frailty (2001).
In the 2000s, McConaughey became best known for starring in romantic comedies, including The Wedding Planner (2001), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Failure to Launch (2006), Fool’s Gold (2008), and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), establishing him as a sex symbol. After a two-year hiatus from film acting, McConaughey began to appear in more dramatic roles beginning with the legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer (2011). He was acclaimed for his supporting performances in Bernie (2011), Magic Mike (2012) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and for his leading roles in Killer Joe (2011) and Mud (2012).
McConaughey’s portrayal of Ron Woodroof, a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS, in the biopic Dallas Buyers Club (2013) earned him widespread praise and numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2014, he starred as Rust Cohle in the first season of HBO’s crime anthology series True Detective, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. His film roles since have included Interstellar (2014), The Sea of Trees (2015), Free State of Jones (2016), Gold (2016), The Dark Tower (2017), and The Gentlemen (2019), earning varying degrees of commercial and critical success, as well as voice work in Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), Sing (2016), and Sing 2 (2021).
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Matthew McConaughey Biography / Wiki
| Name | Matthew McConaughey |
| Also Know | Matthew David McConaughey, マシュー・マコノヒー, à¹à¸¡à¸—ธิว à¹à¸¡à¹‡à¸„คà¸à¸™à¸²à¹€à¸®à¸¢à¹Œ, 马修·麦康纳, ماثيو ماكونهي, ÐœÑттью МакКонахи, Меттью МакКонахі, Μάθιου ÎÏ„Îιβιντ ΜακΚόναχι, Μάθιου ΜακΚόναχι, 매튜 맥커너히 |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Uvalde, Texas, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1969-11-04 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 52 |
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Matthew McConaughey Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| A Time to Kill | Jake Brigance | 1996-07-24 | A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK…. |
| U-571 | Lt. Andrew Tyler | 2000-04-20 | In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. Howe… |
| We Are Marshall | Jack Lengyel | 2006-12-12 | When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team’s new coach and his surviving p… |
| Edtv | Ed ‘Eddie’ Pekurny | 1999-03-26 | Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network…. |
| Failure to Launch | Tripp | 2006-03-10 | Tripp, an attractive man in his thirties, is still living with his parents Al and Sue. Tripp’s best friends Demo and Ace are also still living in thei… |
| Sahara | Dirk Pitt | 2005-04-06 | Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. Bu… |
| Fool’s Gold | Ben ‘Finn’ Finnegan | 2008-02-07 | Treasure hunter Ben ‘Finn’ Finnegan has sunk both his trusty boat and his marriage to Tess in his obsessive quest to find the legendary ‘Queen’s Dowry… |
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Connor Mead | 2009-05-01 | When notorious womanizer Connor Mead attends his brother Paul’s wedding, he is forced to re-evaluate his behavior as he comes face-to-face with the gh… |
| Surfer, Dude | Steve Addington | 2008-09-05 | A wave twisting tale of a soul searching surfer experiencing an existential crisis…. |
| The Newton Boys | Willis Newton | 1998-03-26 | The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the oldest of them, Willis, realizes that there’s no future in the fields and… |
| Thirteen Conversations About One Thing | Troy | 2001-09-02 | The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of… |
| The Lincoln Lawyer | Mickey Haller | 2011-03-17 | A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills…. |
| Killer Joe | Det. Joe ‘Killer Joe’ Cooper | 2011-09-10 | A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man’s virginal si… |
| Mud | Mud | 2013-04-26 | Two boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and form a pact to help him reunite with his lover and escape…. |
| Dallas Buyers Club | Ron Woodroof | 2013-11-01 | Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thi… |
| Interstellar | Joseph ‘Coop’ Cooper | 2014-11-05 | The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the va… |
| The Sea of Trees | Arthur Brennan | 2016-04-27 | Numbed by grief, Arthur Brennan heads across the world to Japan’s Aokigahara, a mysterious forest lapping the foothills of Mount Fuji — a place wh… |
| Free State of Jones | Newton Knight | 2016-06-24 | In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than figh… |
| I Am Evel Knievel | Self | 2014-09-10 | I Am Evel Knievel features footage of Evels greatest jumps, including the seminal Snake River Canyon and Caesars Palace jumps. The film also showcases… |
| Gold | Kenny Wells | 2016-02-03 | Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luck… |
| Sing | Buster Moon (voice) | 2016-11-23 | A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition…. |
| Synthesizers | Woodson | 2013-06-03 | Music video about Dazed and Confused character Wooderson…. |
| The Beach Bum | Moondog | 2019-03-21 | An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large…. |
| Serenity | Baker Dill | 2019-01-24 | The quiet life of Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives on the isolated Plymouth Island, where he spends his days obsessed with capturing an el… |
| Judgement | Deputy Sam Taylor | 1995-12-31 | In Judgement County, Texas, a rookie cop gets the ultimate test when an APB for a child killer fits the general description of a man he stops for spee… |
| The Gentlemen | Mickey Pearson | 2019-11-14 | American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the busi… |
| Absolute Evel: The Evel Knievel Story | Narrator | 2005-06-13 | Matthew McConaughey hosts a profile of legendary daredevil Evel Knievel that features extensive commentary from Knievel and footage of famous leaps, a… |
| Sing 2 | Buster Moon (voice) | 2021-12-01 | Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connecti… |
| Man in the Glass: Dale Brown Story | Himself | 2012-05-08 | Born on Halloween, 1935, Dale Brown’s fight for justice began the day his father walked out – two days before he was born.About how an overachiever fr… |
| Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story | Narrator | 2022-06-03 | Directed by award winning filmmaker Ben Masters, Deep in the Heart is a visually stunning celebration of Texas’ diverse landscapes and remarkable wi… |
| Contact | Palmer Joss | 1997-07-11 | A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and … |
| The Wedding Planner | Steve Edison | 2001-01-26 | San Francisco’s premiere wedding planner, Mary Fiore is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, paediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he… |
| Reign of Fire | Denton Van Zan | 2002-07-09 | In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to … |
| Frailty | Adam Meiks | 2001-11-17 | A man confesses to an FBI agent his family’s story of how his religious fanatic father’s visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed ‘demo… |
| Lone Star | Buddy Deeds | 1996-06-21 | When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town…. |
| Two for the Money | Brandon Lang | 2005-10-07 | A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers…. |
| How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | Benjamin Barry | 2003-02-07 | It’s the battle of wills, as Andie (Kate Hudson) needs to prove she can dump a guy in 10 days, whereas Ben (Matthew McConaughey) needs to prove he c… |
| The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Vilmer | 1995-03-12 | Everyone’s favorite chainsaw-wielding psychopath, Leatherface, is back for more prom-night gore, and this time he’s joined by his bloodthirsty family…. |
| The Paperboy | Ward Jansen | 2012-09-14 | As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward’s younger brother… |
| Magic Mike | Dallas | 2012-06-28 | Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and … |
| The Science of Interstellar | Narrator | 2014-11-25 | Matthew McConaughey narrates a fascinating look at Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi film Interstellar, including scientific foundations, the work of consult… |
| Making Sandwiches | Bud Hoagie | 1998-10-03 | Sandra Bullock and Matthew McConaughey make sandwiches in a small kitchen while watching television, where Eric Roberts, in drag aping his sister, rep… |
| White Boy Rick | Richard Wershe Sr. | 2018-09-14 | The story of a teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-t… |
| The Dark Tower | Walter O’Dim | 2017-08-03 | A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark… |
| The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Documentary | himself | 1996-01-02 | This documentary goes behind the scenes of the 1993 filming of “The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre” in Pflugerville, Texas. It includes on-set … |
| Tiptoes | Steven Bedalia | 2003-09-08 | A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs…. |
| Bernie | Danny Buck Davidson | 2012-04-27 | In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour … |
| Submission | 1995-06-13 | Benicio del Toro’s 1995 short film… | |
| Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years | Host | 2014-10-03 | The star-studded special celebrates the trailblazing music series’ 40th anniversary. With guest hosts Jeff Bridges, Matthew McConaughey and Sheryl Cro… |
| Boys on the Side | Abe Lincoln | 1995-02-03 | After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-coun… |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | Mark Hanna | 2013-12-25 | A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infi… |
| Inside Interstellar | Self – ‘Cooper’ | 2015-03-31 | Cast and crew of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ discuss project origins, the film’s imagery, ambitions, incorporating IMAX footage, the human elem… |
| Friedkin Uncut | Himself | 2018-11-05 | An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary and offbeat director of cult films such as The Frenc… |
| Amistad | Roger Sherman Baldwin | 1997-12-10 | In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are th… |
| The Story of Darrell Royal | Narrator | 1999-01-01 | Award-winning story of University of Texas coaching legend and three time National Champion, Darrell Royal… |
| Making Dazed | Himself | 2005-03-01 | This documentary reunites the cast of the 1993 film “Dazed and Confused”, and features behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the film. A decade… |
| Come Home | Buster Moon (voice) | 2021-11-25 | During the holiday season, Angie, a pack’s mother, gets stranded by a blizzard and winds up backstage at the variety show studio. She then gets a chan… |
| Larger Than Life | Tip Tucker | 1996-10-31 | Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. Then one… |
| Interstellar: Nolan’s Odyssey | Himself | 2014-11-05 | A look behind the lens of Christopher Nolan’s space epic…. |
| 21 Years: Richard Linklater | Self – Actor | 2014-11-07 | A journey through the professional life of innovative film director Richard Linklater: 21 years creating films, carving his signature in pop culture; … |
| Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Self | 2019-09-20 | Galifianakis dreamed of becoming a star. But when Will Ferrell discovered his public access TV show, ‘Between Two Ferns’ and uploaded it to Funny or D… |
| Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny | Himself | 2016-08-05 | Highlighting one of the most innovative American directors, this film reveals the path traveled by the auteur from his small-town Texas roots to his w… |
| Scorpion Spring | El Rojo | 1996-10-10 | On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat…… |
| Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon | Al Bean (voice) | 2005-01-01 | Twelve men who belong to one of the world’s most exclusive fraternities — people who’ve walked on the surface of the moon — are paid homage in this … |
| U2 at The BBC | Himself | 2017-12-19 | U2 bring their stadium-filling rock to Abbey Road Studios to perform exclusive versions of classics like With or Without You, Beautiful Day and One, a… |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read | Mike Damone | 2020-09-17 | A virtual table read of the classic 1982 hit Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The all-star cast includes Jennifer Aniston, Dane Cook, Morgan Freeman, Jim… |
| Angels in the Outfield | Ben Williams | 1994-07-15 | Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger’s favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins … |
| Kubo and the Two Strings | Beetle (voice) | 2016-08-18 | Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seek… |
| Tropic Thunder | Rick Peck | 2008-08-09 | Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. lead an ensemble cast in ‘Tropic Thunder,’ an action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors who se… |
| Glory Daze | Rental Truck Guy | 1995-10-01 | Jack, a soon-to-be graduate, finds he’s having a difficult time letting go of the college life — and decides maybe he doesn’t have to. Also questioni… |
| My Boyfriend’s Back | Guy #2 | 1993-08-06 | Missy McCloud is the most beautiful girl in school and Johnny Dingle has been in love with her for years. One night, Johnny is killed trying to win he… |
| We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash | Self | 2012-08-20 | Johnny Cash influenced a great variety of musicians and it was never more apparent than on Friday, April 20, 2012 at The Moody Theater in Austin, TX. … |
| Dazed and Confused | Wooderson | 1993-09-24 | The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jock… |
| Roll Up Your Sleeves | Self | 2021-04-18 | This variety special aims to educate viewers, raise awareness and dispel concerns surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines, all with the goal of increasing v… |
| Welcome to Hollywood | Matthew McConaughey | 1998-10-01 | A film director (Adam Rifkin) decides to chart the course of a young actor (Tony Markes) as he tries to make it in Hollywood…… |
| One World: Together at Home | Self | 2020-04-18 | A global broadcast & digital special organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization featuring comedians, musicians, and actors to raise… |
| Paparazzi | Matthew McConaughey (uncredited) | 2004-09-03 | A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a perso… |
| Disclosure | Ron Woodroof (archive footage) | 2020-06-19 | An investigation of how Hollywood’s fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have… |
Matthew McConaughey Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Sahara | Executive Producer | 2005-04-06 | Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. Bu… |
| Surfer, Dude | Producer | 2008-09-05 | A wave twisting tale of a soul searching surfer experiencing an existential crisis…. |
| Gold | Producer | 2016-02-03 | Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luck… |
| Executive Producer | An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets o… | ||
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