Matthew McConaughey

Birthday

1969-11-04

Place of Birth

Uvalde, Texas, USA

Biography

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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Sing 2

Sing 2

2021 7.4
Sing 2

as Buster Moon (voice)

2021
Serenity

Serenity

2019 5.4
Serenity

as Baker Dill

2019
White Boy Rick

White Boy Rick

2018 6.5
White Boy Rick

as Richard Wershe Sr.

2018
Sing

Sing

2016 7.1
Sing

as Buster Moon (voice)

2016
Gold

Gold

2016 6.7
Gold

as Kenny Wells

2016
Interstellar

Interstellar

2014 8.7
Interstellar

as Joseph "Coop" Cooper

2014
Mud

Mud

2013 7.4
Mud

as Mud

2013
Bernie

Bernie

2012 6.8
Bernie

as Danny Buck Davidson

2012
Killer Joe

Killer Joe

2012 6.7
Killer Joe

as Det. Joe 'Killer Joe' Cooper

2012