Matthew McConaughey
Known for: Acting
Born: November 3, 1969 in Uvalde, Texas, USA
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.
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Contact
Palmer Joss
A Time to Kill
Jake Brigance
U-571
Lt. Andrew Tyler
The Wedding Planner
Steve Edison
We Are Marshall
Jack Lengyel
EDtv
Ed 'Eddie' Pekurny
Sahara
Dirk Pitt
Tropic Thunder
Rick Peck
Failure to Launch
Tripp
Reign of Fire
Denton Van Zan
Amistad
Roger Sherman Baldwin
Angels in the Outfield
Ben Williams
Fool's Gold
Ben 'Finn' Finnegan
Tiptoes
Steven
Frailty
Meiks
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Connor Mead
Boys on the Side
Abe Lincoln
Lone Star
Buddy Deeds
Two for the Money
Brandon Lang
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Benjamin Barry
Surfer, Dude
Steve Addington
The Newton Boys
Willis Newton
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Vilmer
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Troy