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.
88 movies · 50 shows
A CNN & Variety Town Hall Event: Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey
2026·0.0
The Lost Bus
2025·7.0
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
2025·0.0
Sing: Thriller
2024·7.1
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024·7.6
Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels
2024·2.0
Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy
2023·9.0
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
2023·0.0
Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story
2022·8.8
Sing 2
2021·7.8
Come Home
2021·7.5
Roll Up Your Sleeves
2021·7.5
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
2020·5.4
Disclosure
2020·7.8
One World: Together at Home
2020·7.1
The Gentlemen
2020·7.7
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
2019·5.9
The Beach Bum
2019·5.7
Serenity
2019·5.5
Friedkin Uncut
2018·7.1
White Boy Rick
2018·6.3
U2 at The BBC
2017·8.0
The Dark Tower
2017·5.8
Sing
2016·7.1
Kubo and the Two Strings
2016·7.6
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016·6.8
Free State of Jones
2016·6.8
The Sea of Trees
2016·6.2
Gold
2016·6.6
Inside 'Interstellar'
2015·6.9
The Science of Interstellar
2014·6.9
21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014·6.3
Interstellar
2014·8.5
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
2014·7.8
Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years
2014·0.0
I Am Evel Knievel
2014·6.1
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013·8.0
Dallas Buyers Club
2013·7.9
Synthesizers
2013·7.0
Mud
2013·7.1
The Paperboy
2012·5.5
We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash
2012·7.1
Magic Mike
2012·6.2
Killer Joe
2012·6.5
Man in the Glass: The Dale Brown Story
2012·2.0
Bernie
2012·6.6
The Lincoln Lawyer
2011·7.2
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009·6.0
Surfer, Dude
2008·4.6
Tropic Thunder
2008·6.7
Fool's Gold
2008·5.8
We Are Marshall
2006·6.9
Failure to Launch
2006·5.8
Two for the Money
2005·6.1
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005·5.8
Absolute Evel: The Evel Knievel Story
2005·10.0
Sahara
2005·5.9
Making Dazed
2005·9.0
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
2004·0.0
Paparazzi
2004·5.3
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
2003·6.9
Tiptoes
2002·3.9
Reign of Fire
2002·6.2
Frailty
2002·6.9
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001·6.3
The Wedding Planner
2001·5.9
Welcome to Hollywood
2000·4.2
Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth
2000·6.9
U-571
2000·6.5
EDtv
1999·6.0
The Story of Darrell Royal
1999·10.0
Making Sandwiches
1998·6.3
The Newton Boys
1998·6.1
Amistad
1997·7.0
Contact
1997·7.4
Scorpion Spring
1996·6.7
Larger Than Life
1996·5.5
A Time to Kill
1996·7.4
Lone Star
1996·7.0
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Documentary
1996·6.2
Judgement
1995·7.8
Glory Daze
1995·5.2
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1995·4.6
Submission
1995·8.5
Boys on the Side
1995·6.4
Angels in the Outfield
1994·6.0
Dazed and Confused
1993·7.3
My Boyfriend's Back
1993·5.7