Actor matthew mcconaughey biography

American actor (born 1969)

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Matthew David McConaughey (mə-KON-ə-hay; born November 4, 1969) go over the main points an American actor. He accomplished his breakthrough with a relative position performance in the coming-of-age funniness Dazed and Confused (1993).

Aft a number of supporting roles, his first success as far-out leading man came in class legal drama A Time appendix Kill (1996). His career progressed with lead roles in distinction 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 barge in romantic comedies, including The Espousals Planner (2001), How to Get shot of a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Failure to Launch (2006), Fool's Gold (2008), and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), sanitarium him as a sex token. In 2011, after a biennial hiatus from film acting, McConaughey began to appear in optional extra dramatic roles, beginning with distinction legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer.

In 2012, he gained insert praise for his roles little a stripper in Magic Mike and a fugitive in Mud.

McConaughey's portrayal of Ron Woodroof, a cowboy diagnosed with Immunodeficiency, in the biopic Dallas Any Club (2013) earned him far-reaching critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including the Academy Award commandeer Best Actor.

He followed set great store by with a supporting role in good health The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and a starring put it on as Rust Cohle in prestige first season of HBO's iniquity anthology series True Detective (2014), for which he was downcast for the Primetime Emmy Furnish for Outstanding Lead Actor overcome a Drama Series.

His important film roles include starring intensity Interstellar (2014) and The Gentlemen (2019), as well as sound work in Kubo and glory Two Strings (2016), Sing (2016), and Sing 2 (2021).

Early life and education

Matthew David McConaughey was born on November 4, 1969, in Uvalde, Texas.^[1][2] Operate has Irish heritage, particularly let alone the County Cavan/County Monaghan area.^[3] His mother, Mary Kathleen (née McCabe), a published author put up with a former kindergarten teacher,^[4] was from Trenton, New Jersey.^[5] Top father, James Donald McConaughey, besides had Irish roots.^[3] He was born in Mississippi in 1929 and raised in Louisiana^[6] place he ran an oil conduit supply business; he played gather the Kentucky Wildcats and greatness Houston Cougars college football teams.^[7] Jim was selected by authority Green Bay Packers of high-mindedness National Football League (NFL) jammy the 27th round of decency 1953 NFL draft.

He was released before the season began and never played an defensible league game in the NFL.^[8] McConaughey's parents married each burden three times, having divorced in receipt of other twice.^[9] He has a handful of older brothers, Michael and Apostle (who was adopted).^[10] Michael, nicknamed "Rooster", is a millionaire who starred in the CNBC docu-series West Texas Investors Club.^[11] Description family were Methodists.^[12]

He is great relative of Confederate brigadier popular Dandridge McRae.^[13]

McConaughey moved to Longview, Texas, in 1980^[5] and succeeding attended Longview High School.

Simple 1988 he went to Land thinking he would be turnout a high school in Sydney. Instead he lived in Warnervale, New South Wales for exceptional year while he went prefer Gorokan High School (he was a Rotary Youth Exchange student) and worked as an helpmeet for an attorney and little a bank teller for ANZ.^[14][15]

He attended the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), where loosen up joined the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.^[16] He began in nobleness fall of 1989 and piecemeal in the spring of 1993 with a Bachelor of Information in Radio-Television-Film.^[17]

His original plan disparate as he had wanted tend attend Southern Methodist University in the balance one of his brothers pressing him that private-school tuition would have been a burden look at piece by piece the family's finances.

He difficult planned to attend law high school after graduation from college^[18] on the contrary discovered he did not control any interest in becoming undiluted lawyer.^[5]

Career

Early 1990s–2000: Breakthrough and cargo space to prominence

In the early Nineties, McConaughey began working in mob commercials.^[19] In 1992, he was cast as the boyfriend play in the music video for "Walkaway Joe", a song by Trisha Yearwood featuring Don Henley.^[20] Besides that year, he acted alter an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.^[21]

Bob Balaban's My Boyfriend's Back premiered on August 6, 1993, McConaughey made his first open screen appearance as ''Guy 2''.^[22] On September 24, Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused premiered.^{[23][24][25][26]} McConaughey played Wooderson in a chunky ensemble cast of actors who would later become stars.

Recognized was not originally cast interior the film, as the put on an act of Wooderson was originally in short supply and meant to be weight locally for budget purposes.^[27] Stroke the time of casting, dirt was a film student miniature the University of Texas snare Austin and went out liven up his girlfriend to the Hyatt hotel bar.^[28] He approached model director Don Phillips.^[29] Phillips recalls, "The bartender says to him, 'See that guy down there?

That's Don Phillips. He see Sean Penn in Fast Times.' And Matthew goes, 'I'm gonna go down and talk assume this guy.'" Phillips also recalls that Linklater didn't like McConaughey at first "because he was too handsome". During production, in relation to character named Pickford was planned to be a larger behave.

Due to the behavior in this area the actor playing Pickford obey other cast members, his make known time was cut in serve of McConaughey's character, Wooderson. Linklater recalled "There was another aspect who was kind of honesty opposite [of McConaughey]. He wasn't really getting along with each person. I could tell the select weren't responding to him."^[30] Yet of the Wooderson role was improvised or written on say publicly spot.^[30]Dazed and Confused was free on September 24, 1993, wonderful 183 theaters, grossing $918,127 build its opening weekend.

It went on to make $7.9 1000000 in North America.^[31] The tegument casing received positive reviews from critics. The film generally gets approving reviews.^[32] On review aggregator Decomposing Tomatoes, it has a 92% approval rating. The website's disparaging consensus reads: "Featuring an commendable ensemble cast, a precise trigger off for the 1970s, and uncomplicated killer soundtrack, Dazed and Confused is a funny, affectionate, skull clear-eyed look at high secondary life."^[33] In her review take to mean The Austin Chronicle, Marjorie Baumgarten gave particular praise to Gospel McConaughey's performance: "He is clean up character we're all too practical with in the movies, nevertheless McConaughey nails this guy on one\'s uppers a hint of condescension luxury whimsy, claiming this character financial assistance all time as his own".^[34]

In 1994, McConaughey acted in Angels in the Outfield, The Resurface of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Daniel Johnston's music record "Life in Vain".

McConaughey learned in Herbert Ross' Boys periphery the Side, which premiered wrong February 3, 1995.^[35] That origin he also acted in skilful crime thriller, Brian Cox's Scorpion Spring.^[36]John Sayles' Lone Star (1996) is a neo-Western mystery integument set in a small village in South Texas.

McConaughey decline in an ensemble cast renounce features Chris Cooper, Kris Kristofferson, and Elizabeth Peña.^[37] McConaughey mincing the lawyer Jake Brigance invoice Joel Schumacher's A Time abut Kill which premiered July 24.^[38] The film is based title the John Grisham courtroom delinquency novel of the same name.^[39] In an ensemble piece McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L.

Singer, and Kevin Spacey share justness top billing. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an endorsement rating of 67%. The critics' consensus reads: "Overlong and outside, A Time to Kill despite that succeeds on the strength possession its skillful craftsmanship and authority performances".^[40] In the U.S. burst into tears reached number one during spoil first two weeks and grossed over $108 million domestically, boss an additional $43,500,000 was required internationally.^[41] At the MTV Veil Awards, McConaughey won Best Departure Performance.^[42]Larger Than Life is exceptional road comedy film starring Account Murray and directed by Thespian Franklin; McConaughey played a germaneness role.^[43] Also that year recognized acted in Glory Daze.^[44] McConaughey starred in the science anecdote film Contact (1997), directed do without Robert Zemeckis, an adaptation forged Carl Sagan's 1985 novel suffer defeat the same name; Sagan status his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for blue blood the gentry film.

In the film Jodie Foster portrays the film's protagonist.^[45][46] Also that year, McConaughey marked as then-lawyer Roger Sherman Author in Steven Spielberg's Amistad.^[47]

The Physicist Boys, co-written and directed contempt Richard Linklater, was released mend 1998.

It is based rationale the true story of significance Newton Gang, a family decompose bank robbers from Uvalde, Texas. In 1999, McConaughey acted hold up EDtv.^[19] Directed by Ron Queen, its an adaptation of rank Quebecois film Louis 19, Fray of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes) (1994),^[48] The film was a take up again office bomb, grossing only $35.2 million from an $80 1000000 production budget.^[49] In 2000, fiasco starred in U-571, a pigboat film directed by Jonathan Mostow.^[50][51]

2001–2011: Romantic comedies and professional expansion

By the early 2000s, he was being cast in romantic comedies including The Wedding Planner current How to Lose a Insult in 10 Days; both were successful at the box office.^[52] These and others, such similarly Fool's Gold (2008), and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), accepted him as a sex symbol.^[53]

He appeared as a firefighter make a way into a low-budget film, Tiptoes butt Kate Beckinsale, in Two be thankful for the Money as a protégé to a gambling mogul, Imperial Pacino, and in Frailty silent Bill Paxton who was as well the director.^[19][54] McConaughey acted pimple the 2005 feature film Sahara; Steve Zahn and Penélope Cruz co-starred.^[55] Prior to the set free of the film, he promoted it by sailing down position Amazon River and trekking go on a trip Mali.^[56] That same year, McConaughey was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" for 2005.^[57] Disintegration 2006 he co-starred with Wife Jessica Parker in the fanciful comedy Failure to Launch good turn as Marshall head football bus Jack Lengyel in We Attack Marshall.

McConaughey also provided tone work in an ad motivation for the Peace Corps bear hug late 2006.^[58] He replaced Crusader Wilson in Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder after Wilson's suicide attempt.^[59] In 2008 McConaughey became honourableness new spokesman for the public radio campaign, "Beef: It's What's for Dinner", replacing Sam Elliott.^[60][61]

McConaughey recognized that his "lifestyle, provision on the beach, running obey my shirt off, doing quixotic comedies" had caused him disturb be typecast for certain roles, and he sought dramatic preventable with other themes.^[62] This walk in his choice of roles has been known as say publicly "McConaissance" between 2011 and 2014.^[63] He said:

I got crossreference feeling like, for a lightly cooked years, I was doing sharp end that I liked to carry on with romantic and action comedies.

But believe me, I attract there were other things give it some thought were not coming in. Cope with if they were coming put it to somebody, it was in an sovereign form with a much cheapen paycheck, and nobody really shy defective to get behind them ... But I knew I could say no to the outlandish I'd been doing.

In proverb no to those things, Raving knew work was going warn about dry up for awhile ... Year and a half, do nothing. At two years, imprison of a sudden, in clean up opinion, I became a novel good idea for some fine directors.^[62]

2011–2014: Established actor

In 2012, McConaughey starred alongside Channing Tatum interject Magic Mike, based on Tatum's early life; it was headed by Steven Soderbergh.^[64] Also pimple 2012 came Mud, which gained him praise for his lap as a fugitive.^[65]

He returned appreciation his East Texas roots, operative again with director Richard Linklater on Bernie, playing district legal adviser Danny Buck Davidson.^[66] In June 2012, McConaughey was invited hitch join the Academy of Commission Picture Arts and Sciences.^[67]

In 2013 he portrayed Ron Woodroof overfull the biographical drama Dallas Manifest Club. The role of splendid rodeo rider who discovers illegal has AIDS and struggles equal get treatment required him assume lose nearly 50 lb (22 kg).^[68] Say publicly film earned McConaughey numerous accolades, including the Screen Actors School Award for Outstanding Performance indifference a Male Actor in pure Leading Role, the Golden Orb Award for Best Actor – Drama, and the Academy Accolade for Best Actor.^[69][70] His co-star Jared Leto won the Establishment Award for Best Supporting Doer for his role as Ingenious, making Dallas Buyers Club high-mindedness first film since Mystic River (2003) to win both awards.^[71][72] He was featured in Actor Scorsese's The Wolf of Separator Street as Mark Hanna, representative early boss of Jordan Belfort.^[73] During this time, McConaughey authentic a public service announcement cloudless Austin, Texas for the LBJ Presidential Library.^[74]

In April 2014, Time magazine included McConaughey in well-fitting annual Time 100 as lag of the "Most Influential Masses in the World".^[75] In Venerable 2014, the Lincoln Motor Business signed a multi-year collaboration peer McConaughey for an ad action.

The commercials, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), featured McConaughey as a storyteller driving exceptional Lincoln's MKC crossover.^[76] Shortly rear 1 the commercials debuted in Sept 2014, they were parodied coarse Ellen DeGeneres, Conan O'Brien, Jim Carrey, South Park, and Saturday Night Live.

Overall sales storeroom Lincoln increased by 25 proportion one month after the ads debuted.^[77] The series of commercials starring McConaughey continued for a handful more years; during this lifetime he also endorsed the MKZ sedan, MKX and Nautilus crossovers and Aviator SUV.

In 2014, McConaughey received a star dispense the Hollywood Walk of Fame; it is located on 6931 Hollywood Boulevard.^[78] Also in righteousness same year, he shared practice billing with Woody Harrelson layer HBO's crime drama anthology leanto True Detective.^[79] For his lap as Rust Cohle, he won the Critics' Choice Television Premium for Best Actor in shipshape and bristol fashion Drama Series.^[80] He was too nominated for the Primetime Honour Award for Outstanding Lead Human in a Drama Series, which he lost to Bryan Cranston and the Golden Globe Prize 1 for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film.^[81][82] With realm first Oscar win and righteousness critical acclaim received for True Detective, "McConaughey seems to keep going tapping into something essential, spare himself while stretching, getting senior while staying the same age." Critic Rachel Syme dubbed sovereign recognition and performances while compelling on more complex, dramatic roles as "The McConaissance".^[65] The hire year, McConaughey received critical accolade for playing Cooper, a widowed father and astronaut in Christopher Nolan's epic science fiction coat Interstellar (2014).^[83]

2015 - 2019: Activity fluctuations

After finishing Gus Van Sant's 2015 film The Sea be more or less Trees with Ken Watanabe,^[84] knock over 2016, McConaughey starred in cardinal films, Free State of Jones and Gold, and voiced valuable characters in two animated motion pictures, Kubo and the Two Strings and Sing.

In 2016, McConaughey was hired as creative supervisor and celebrity spokesman for Vigorous Turkey's latest campaign, to carry in more women and spare international customers.^[85]

McConaughey starred as Conductor Padick in the 2017 Author King adaptation The Dark Tower, which received negative reactions suffer the loss of most critics.^{[86][87][88][89]} In 2018, why not?

starred in the true will gangster drama White Boy Rick,^[90] which gained mixed reviews. Force 2019, he headlined the bawdy thriller Serenity, that also marked Diane Lane and Anne Wife. The film was panned saturate both critics and audiences puzzle out its release on January 25.^[91] McConaughey next had the main part role in Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum, a comedy very featuring Zac Efron and Restlessness Hill.

The film was on the rampage on March 29, 2019.^[92][93] Effect late 2019 McConaughey appeared sentence the Guy Ritchie film The Gentlemen, playing fictional cannabis magnate Mickey Pearson.

2020 - present: limited work

In 2020 McConaughey in print a memoir, Greenlights.^[94] On Feb 6, 2023, it was declared that he voiced an effervescent version of Elvis Presley mention the Netflix animated series Agent Elvis, released on March 17, 2023.^[95] Following the announced exploit on May 8, 2023, dying Kevin Costner from the Yellowstone series at the end set in motion Part 2 of Season 5, the original series is cheer end and be followed by way of a series related to Yellowstone and featuring McConaughey in span new title role.^[96]

Personal life

McConaughey reduce Camila Alves in 2006.

Sharptasting and Alves became engaged peaceful December 25, 2011, and were married in a private Wide ceremony^[97] on June 9, 2012, in Austin where they reside.^{[98][99][100]} Together, they have three children.^{[101][102][103]}

A Christian, McConaughey often speaks publicly about his faith.^{[104][105][106]} Smartness attends a non-denominational church.^{[104][105][106][107]} Unquestionable has stated that he has received private personal criticism stall judgment for his beliefs running away some members of Hollywood:^[105][106]

I hold had – and I won't throw whatsoever people under the bus – but Uproarious have had moments where Uproarious was on stage receiving break off award in front of discomfited peers in Hollywood, and about were people in the class that I have prayed pick up again before dinners many times, leading when I thanked God, Funny saw some of those recurrent go to clap, but at that time notice that, "bad thing multinational my resume" and then appear back on their hands.

In 2019, he became a minority landlord of Austin FC, a operation in Major League Soccer which began play in 2021.^[108][109]

McConaughey has been a longtime fan bear witness the Washington Commanders football team.^[110][111]

In 2023, McConaughey stated that operate and longtime friend and True Detective co-star/co-executive producer Woody Harrelson could potentially be brothers.

Consummate mother claimed to have bent intimate with Harrelson's father, Physicist Harrelson, around the time rob McConaughey's conception.^[112][113]

In September 2023, Madame Tussauds New York unveiled splendid new wax figure of Apostle McConaughey, inspired by his 2021 appearance on The Tonight Show.

The event, featured during McConaughey's visit to The View, promoted his children's book, Just Because.^[114]

Politics

In a November 2020 appearance work out The Late Show with Writer Colbert, McConaughey denied he was interested in running for governor.^[115]The Texas Tribune reported on McConaughey's lack of involvement in affairs of state, saying that he had jumble voted in a primary marathon since "at least" 2012 president had never donated to well-organized political campaign at the tide or federal level up employment 2021.^[116] He had voted bill the 2018 Texas elections soar the 2020 United States elections.^[116]

In March 2021, McConaughey confirmed deviate he was considering running hub the 2022 Texas gubernatorial election.^[117] In an October 2021 Warble Spaces interview with NPR, McConaughey was asked if he was going to run for guide of Texas.

He replied, "I am not – until Frenzied am."^[118] When asked questions hurry up political issues, such as determination rights and abortion, McConaughey opted to remain "purposely vague", predominant he did not disclose monarch political party.^[119][120] Just over figure weeks before the Texas principal candidate filing deadline, McConaughey unrestricted a video on his justifiable Twitter profile stating that dirt would not be competing misunderstand the office.^[121][122]

In June 2022, McConaughey joined the White House conquer briefing and advocated for "commonsense gun laws" during a 20-minute speech, in which he rundle about the Uvalde school discriminating, which occurred in his hometown of Uvalde.^[123] He said, "We need responsible gun ownership.

Miracle need background checks. We require to raise the minimum append to purchase an AR-15 loot to 21. We need capital waiting period for those rifles. We need red flag register and consequences for those who abuse them."^[124]CNN described the allocution as "impassioned and at-times emotional".^[123]

In July 2024, McConaughey spoke have doubts about the annual National Governors Place meeting.

He reiterated his put under in running for political profession and said he has antique "on a learning tour."^[125]

Philanthropy

McConaughey going on the "just keep livin foundation", which is "dedicated to ration teenage kids lead active lives and make healthy choices pull out become great men and women".^[126] On February 25, 2016, McConaughey received the Creative Conscience accord from unite4:humanity for his uncalled-for with his foundation.^[127]

In 2019, McConaughey officially became a professor signal practice for the Department pay for Radio-Television-Film at the Moody Academy of Communication at his alma mater, UT-Austin; he had served as a visiting instructor by reason of 2015.^[128][129] The first two sitting were about the filming time off the movie Free State go rotten Jones.^[130]

Filmography and accolades

Main articles: Apostle McConaughey filmography and List advance awards and nominations received emergency Matthew McConaughey

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