Matthew McConaughey
Matthew David McConaughey (/məˈkɒnəheɪ/ mə-KON-ə-hay; born November 4, 1969) is an American actor. He achieved his breakthrough with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993). After several supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996). His career progressed with lead roles in the science fiction film Contact (1997), the historical drama Amistad (1997), and the war film U-571 (2000). In the 2000s, McConaughey became 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. In 2011, after a two-year hiatus from film acting, McConaughey began appearing in more dramatic roles, starting with the legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer. In 2012, he gained wider praise for his roles as a stripper in Magic Mike and a fugitive in Mud. McConaughey's portrayal of Ron Woodroof, a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS, in the biopic Dallas Buyers Club (2013) earned him widespread critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. He followed it with a supporting role in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and a starring role as Rust Cohle in the first season of HBO's crime anthology series True Detective (2014), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. His subsequent film roles include starring in Interstellar (2014) and The Gentlemen (2019), as well as voice work in Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), Sing (2016), and Sing 2 (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew McConaughey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (50)
The Rivals of Amziah King
The Lost Bus
Deadpool & Wolverine
Sing: Thriller
Sing 2
The Gentlemen
Serenity
The Beach Bum
White Boy Rick
The Dark Tower
Kubo and the Two Strings
Free State of Jones
Sing
The Sea of Trees
Gold
Interstellar
The Wolf of Wall Street
Mud
Dallas Buyers Club
Killer Joe
Bernie
Magic Mike
The Paperboy
The Lincoln Lawyer
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Tropic Thunder
Fool's Gold
Surfer, Dude
We Are Marshall
Failure to Launch
Sahara
Two for the Money
Paparazzi
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Frailty
Reign of Fire
Tiptoes
The Wedding Planner
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
U-571
EDtv
The Newton Boys
Contact
Amistad
Lone Star
A Time to Kill
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Boys on the Side
Angels in the Outfield
