Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey
	File:Matthew McConaughey 2019 (48648344772).jpg McConaughey in 2019
Born	November 4, 1969 (age 55); Uvalde, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin (BS)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1991–present
Works	Full list
Spouse(s)	Camila Alves; (m. 2012)
Children	3
Awards	Full list

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Matthew David McConaughey (/məˈkɒnəheɪ/; 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.^[1]^[2]^[3] 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,^[4] 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).^[5]

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) as well as Sing (2016) and Sing 2 (2021).

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↑ Halperin, Shirley (January 20, 2012). "Matthew McConaughey Reprises 'Dazed and Confused' Breakout Role for Music Video" (in en). The Hollywood Reporter. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/matthew-mcconaughey-wooderson-dazed-confused-butch-walker-283627. "McConaughey is reprising his breakout role of Wooderson, the iconic stoner from Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused, who famously demured, “That's what I love about them high school girls... I get older, they stay the same age." ... "When it comes to classic characters, Matthew McConaughey's Wooderson took the cake... and the high school girls with him," says Walker, who also released his first book this fall, Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons From a Teenage Bullet Belt."
↑ Grossman, Samantha (January 13, 2015). "Treat Yourself to Matthew McConaughey's Dazed and Confused Audition Tape". TIME. https://time.com/3665375/matthew-mcconaughey-dazed-and-confused-audition-tape/. "Sometimes it’s easy to forget that before he was a serious actor with a serious actor Oscar and a serious actor beard, Matthew McConaughey was just another handsome twenty-something from Texas. Of course, everything changed once he landed his breakout role in Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused, in which he played slightly-creepy stoner David Wooderson."
↑ Ihnat, Gwen (June 29, 2017). "Matthew McConaughey deconstructs his signature phrase in this exclusive clip". The AV Club. Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2020. The Linklater segment, entitled "Dream Is Destiny," will feature conversations with the director's favorite actors like Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey, talking about Linklater's extensive cinematic history {{cite web}}:
↑ Pulver, Andrew (June 28, 2012). "Matthew McConaughey: from himbo to highbrow". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jun/28/matthew-mcconaughey-killer-joe. "Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them. I did a few romantic comedies. I enjoyed them. They paid well; they were fun. I didn't know if I wanted to do any more. I decided to sit out, and I had to endure for a while. Another one comes with a big old paycheck; I had to say no. I was looking for something to be turned on by."
↑ Syme, Rachel (January 16, 2014). "The McConaissance" (in en). The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-mcconaissance. Retrieved March 27, 2020. "This morning, Matthew McConaughey woke up to his first Oscar nomination. There’s no denying the McConaissance now, a bold second act in the American actor’s life which somehow feels as novel as it does deliberate. McConaughey’s return to the Hollywood firmament in the past two years has had an unusually organic quality to it, in that critics and audiences alike have quickly made room for his new oddball intensity and his desire to make interesting choices again after a decade of just livin’ and relying on his dimples and his baritone drawl."

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[halperin2012-1] Halperin, Shirley (January 20, 2012). "Matthew McConaughey Reprises 'Dazed and Confused' Breakout Role for Music Video" (in en). The Hollywood Reporter. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/matthew-mcconaughey-wooderson-dazed-confused-butch-walker-283627. "McConaughey is reprising his breakout role of Wooderson, the iconic stoner from Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused, who famously demured, “That's what I love about them high school girls... I get older, they stay the same age." ... "When it comes to classic characters, Matthew McConaughey's Wooderson took the cake... and the high school girls with him," says Walker, who also released his first book this fall, Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons From a Teenage Bullet Belt."

[grossman2015-2] Grossman, Samantha (January 13, 2015). "Treat Yourself to Matthew McConaughey's Dazed and Confused Audition Tape". TIME. https://time.com/3665375/matthew-mcconaughey-dazed-and-confused-audition-tape/. "Sometimes it’s easy to forget that before he was a serious actor with a serious actor Oscar and a serious actor beard, Matthew McConaughey was just another handsome twenty-something from Texas. Of course, everything changed once he landed his breakout role in Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused, in which he played slightly-creepy stoner David Wooderson."

[ihnat2017-3] Ihnat, Gwen (June 29, 2017). "Matthew McConaughey deconstructs his signature phrase in this exclusive clip". The AV Club. Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2020. The Linklater segment, entitled "Dream Is Destiny," will feature conversations with the director's favorite actors like Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey, talking about Linklater's extensive cinematic history {{cite web}}:

[pulver2013-4] Pulver, Andrew (June 28, 2012). "Matthew McConaughey: from himbo to highbrow". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jun/28/matthew-mcconaughey-killer-joe. "Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them. I did a few romantic comedies. I enjoyed them. They paid well; they were fun. I didn't know if I wanted to do any more. I decided to sit out, and I had to endure for a while. Another one comes with a big old paycheck; I had to say no. I was looking for something to be turned on by."

[syme2014-5] Syme, Rachel (January 16, 2014). "The McConaissance" (in en). The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-mcconaissance. Retrieved March 27, 2020. "This morning, Matthew McConaughey woke up to his first Oscar nomination. There’s no denying the McConaissance now, a bold second act in the American actor’s life which somehow feels as novel as it does deliberate. McConaughey’s return to the Hollywood firmament in the past two years has had an unusually organic quality to it, in that critics and audiences alike have quickly made room for his new oddball intensity and his desire to make interesting choices again after a decade of just livin’ and relying on his dimples and his baritone drawl."

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