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Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey

Birthday: 1969-11-04 | Place of Birth: Uvalde, Texas, USA

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew McConaughey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Sing 2

as    Buster Moon (voice)

2020
The Gentlemen

as    Mickey Pearson

2019
Serenity

as    Baker Dill

2019
Between Two Ferns: The Movie

as    Matthew McConaughey

2019
The Beach Bum

as    Moondog

2018
White Boy Rick

as    Richard Wershe Sr.

2018
Friedkin Uncut

as    Self

2017
The Dark Tower

as    Walter O’Dim

2016
The Sea of Trees

as    Arthur Brennan

2016
Kubo and the Two Strings

as    Beetle (voice)

2016
Sing

as    Buster Moon (voice)

2016
Gold

as    Kenny Wells

2016
Free State of Jones

as    Newton Knight

2015
The Science of Interstellar

as    Narrator (voice)

2014
Interstellar

as    Joseph "Coop" Cooper

2014
2014
I Am Evel Knievel

as    Self

2014
21 Years: Richard Linklater

as    Self - Actor

2013
The Wolf of Wall Street

as    Mark Hanna

2013
Mud

as    Mud

2013
Dallas Buyers Club

as    Ron Woodroof

2012
Magic Mike

as    Dallas

2012
Bernie

as    Danny Buck Davidson

2012
Killer Joe

as    Det. Joe 'Killer Joe' Cooper

2012
The Paperboy

as    Ward Jansen

2011
The Lincoln Lawyer

as    Mickey Haller

2009
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

as    Connor Mead