1969-11-04 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).
Nine Ball | Pool Shark Father | 2024-02-05 | |
Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story | Narrator | 2022-06-03 | |
Roll Up Your Sleeves | Self | 2021-04-18 | |
Sing 2 | Buster Moon (voice) | 2021-12-01 | |
Come Home | Buster Moon (voice) | 2021-11-25 | |
The Gentlemen | Mickey Pearson | 2020-01-01 | |
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read | Mike Damone | 2020-09-17 | |
One World: Together at Home | Self | 2020-04-18 | |
Disclosure | Ron Woodroof (archive footage) | 2020-06-19 | |
Serenity | Baker Dill | 2019-01-24 | |
The Beach Bum | Moondog | 2019-03-21 | |
Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Matthew McConaughey | 2019-09-20 | |
Friedkin Uncut | Self | 2018-11-05 | |
White Boy Rick | Richard Wershe Sr. | 2018-09-14 | |
U2 at The BBC | Himself | 2017-12-19 | |
The Dark Tower | Walter O’Dim | 2017-08-03 | |
Sing | Buster Moon (voice) | 2016-11-23 | |
Kubo and the Two Strings | Beetle (voice) | 2016-08-18 | |
Gold | Kenny Wells | 2016-02-03 | |
Free State of Jones | Newton Knight | 2016-06-24 | |
The Sea of Trees | Arthur Brennan | 2016-04-27 | |
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny | Self | 2016-08-05 | |
Inside 'Interstellar' | Self - 'Cooper' | 2015-03-31 | |
The Science of Interstellar | Narrator (voice) | 2015-03-31 | |
21 Years: Richard Linklater | Self - Actor | 2014-11-07 | |
Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years | Host | 2014-10-03 | |
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey | Self | 2014-11-05 | |
Interstellar | Joseph "Coop" Cooper | 2014-11-05 | |
I Am Evel Knievel | Self | 2014-09-10 | |
The Wolf of Wall Street | Mark Hanna | 2013-12-25 | |
Mud | Mud | 2013-04-26 | |
Dallas Buyers Club | Ron Woodroof | 2013-11-01 | |
Synthesizers | Woodson | 2013-06-03 | |
Bernie | Danny Buck Davidson | 2012-04-27 | |
The Paperboy | Ward Jansen | 2012-09-14 | |
Magic Mike | Dallas | 2012-06-28 | |
We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash | Self | 2012-08-20 | |
Man in the Glass: Dale Brown Story | Himself | 2012-05-08 | |
Killer Joe | Det. Joe 'Killer Joe' Cooper | 2011-09-10 | |
The Lincoln Lawyer | Mickey Haller | 2011-03-17 | |
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Connor Mead | 2009-05-01 | |
Fool's Gold | Ben 'Finn' Finnegan | 2008-02-07 | |
Surfer, Dude | Steve Addington | 2008-09-05 | |
Tropic Thunder | Rick Peck | 2008-08-09 | |
We Are Marshall | Jack Lengyel | 2006-12-12 | |
Failure to Launch | Tripp | 2006-03-10 | |
Sahara | Dirk Pitt | 2005-04-06 | |
Absolute Evel: The Evel Knievel Story | Narrator | 2005-06-13 | |
Making Dazed | Himself | 2005-03-01 | |
Two for the Money | Brandon Lang | 2005-10-07 | |
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon | Al Bean (voice) | 2005-09-23 | |
Paparazzi | Matthew McConaughey (uncredited) | 2004-09-03 | |
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | Benjamin Barry | 2003-02-07 | |
Tiptoes | Steven Bedalia | 2003-09-08 | |
Reign of Fire | Denton Van Zan | 2002-07-09 | |
Frailty | Adam Meiks | 2002-04-12 | |
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing | Troy | 2001-09-02 | |
The Wedding Planner | Steve Edison | 2001-01-26 | |
U-571 | Lt. Andrew Tyler | 2000-04-20 | |
The Story of Darrell Royal | Narrator | 1999-01-01 | |
Edtv | Ed 'Eddie' Pekurny | 1999-03-26 | |
The Newton Boys | Willis Newton | 1998-03-26 | |
Making Sandwiches | Bud Hoagie | 1998-10-03 | |
Welcome to Hollywood | Matthew McConaughey | 1998-10-01 | |
Amistad | Roger Sherman Baldwin | 1997-12-10 | |
Contact | Palmer Joss | 1997-07-11 | |
Scorpion Spring | El Rojo | 1996-10-10 | |
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Documentary | himself | 1996-01-02 | |
Larger Than Life | Tip Tucker | 1996-07-26 | |
A Time to Kill | Jake Brigance | 1996-07-24 | |
Lone Star | Buddy Deeds | 1996-06-21 | |
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Vilmer | 1995-09-22 | |
Submission | 1995-06-13 | ||
Judgement | Deputy Sam Taylor | 1995-12-31 | |
Glory Daze | Rental Truck Guy | 1995-10-01 | |
Boys on the Side | Abe Lincoln | 1995-02-03 | |
Angels in the Outfield | Ben Williams | 1994-07-15 | |
My Boyfriend's Back | Guy #2 | 1993-08-06 | |
Dazed and Confused | David Wooderson | 1993-09-24 | |
The Rivals of Amziah King | Amziah King | ||
The Lost Bus | Kevin McKay |