Matthew McConaughey Wiki

Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor who had his breakout role with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993).

McConaughey starred in many supporting roles and first found success as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996).

Following his role on A Time to Kill, McConaughey’s 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;

1. The Wedding Planner (2001),
2. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003),
3. Failure to Launch (2006),
4. Fool’s Gold (2008), and
5. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), establishing him as a sex symbol.

McConaughey then went on a two-year hiatus from acting, after which he began to appear in more dramatic roles beginning with the legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer (2011).

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.

McConaughey 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.

McConaughey’s film roles earned him varying degrees of commercial and critical success, with his most notable releases being;

Interstellar (2014) and The Gentlemen (2019), as well as voice work in Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), and the Sing film series (2016-2021).

McConaughey is married to Camila Alves (they married in a private Catholic ceremony on June 9, 2012 in Austin where they reside).

McConaughey has fathered three children with Camila Alves: a son born in July 2008, a daughter born in January 2010, and a second son born in December 2012.