Matthew McConaughey

Acting · 7.1 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: November 4, 1969
From: Uvalde, Texas, USA

Biography

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.

Works

95 films

Interstellar

20148.5

Deadpool & Wolverine

20247.6

The Wolf of Wall Street

20138.0

Sing 2

20217.8

Sing

20167.1

Contact

19977.4

The Gentlemen

20207.7

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

20036.9

Tropic Thunder

20086.7

The Dark Tower

20175.8

A Time to Kill

19967.4

Fool's Gold

20085.8

Kubo and the Two Strings

20167.6

Dallas Buyers Club

20137.9

The Lost Bus

20257.0

Reign of Fire

20026.2

The Lincoln Lawyer

20117.2

Magic Mike

20126.2

Sahara

20055.9

Failure to Launch

20065.8

Killer Joe

20126.5

Dazed and Confused

19937.3

Serenity

20195.5

U-571

20006.5

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

20096.0

Mud

20137.1

Gold

20166.6

The Wedding Planner

20015.9

Frailty

20026.9

Free State of Jones

20166.8

White Boy Rick

20186.3

The Rivals of Amziah King

2026

The Paperboy

20125.5

The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

19954.6

We Are Marshall

20066.9

Sing: Thriller

20247.1

Two for the Money

20056.1

Angels in the Outfield

19946.0

The Beach Bum

20195.7

The Sea of Trees

20166.2

Boys on the Side

19956.4

Welcome to Hollywood

20004.2

Lone Star

19967.0

Surfer, Dude

20084.5

Paparazzi

20045.3

One World: Together at Home

20207.1

EDtv

19996.0

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

20195.9

Tiptoes

20023.9

Bernie

20126.6

Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey

20147.8

Glory Daze

19955.2

Disclosure

20207.8

Larger Than Life

19965.5

Come Home

20217.5

The Newton Boys

19986.1

Inside 'Interstellar'

20156.9

Friedkin Uncut

20187.1

Sing 3

2026

The Science of Interstellar

20146.9

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny

20166.8

Positano

2026

Scorpion Spring

19966.7

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

20016.3

Linklater: St. Richard of Austin

2004

I Am Evel Knievel

20146.1

A CNN & Variety Town Hall Event: Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey

2026

My Boyfriend's Back

19935.7

21 Years: Richard Linklater

20146.3

Synthesizers

20137.0

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

20055.8

We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash

20127.1

Roll Up Your Sleeves

20217.5

The Brigands of Rattlecreek

2026

Amistad

19977.0

Making Dazed

20059.0

Submission

19958.5

Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read

20205.4

The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Documentary

19966.2

U2 at The BBC

20178.0

Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special

2025

Judgement

19957.8

Making Sandwiches

19986.3

Art-House America: Austin Film Society

2023

Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years

2014

The Story of Darrell Royal

199910.0

Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story

20228.8

Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy

20239.0

Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth

20006.9

Absolute Evel: The Evel Knievel Story

200510.0

Man in the Glass: The Dale Brown Story

20122.0

A Football Life:2006 Rose Bowl

202610.0

Untitled Mike Hammer Film

2026

Dazed and Confused: Behind the Scenes

2026

Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels

20242.0