Matthew McConaughey 1969 55
Matthew McConaughey 1969 55
Matthew David McConaughey (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. 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, 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).
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), Sing (2016), and Sing 2 (2021).
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2025 The Lost Bus as Kevin McKay
2025 The Rage
2025 The Rivals of Amziah King as Amziah King
2024 Sing: Thriller as Buster Moon (voice)
2024 Deadpool & Wolverine as Cowboypool (voice)
2024 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special as Self (archive footage)
2024 Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels as Narrator (voice)
2024 Nine Ball as Pool Shark Father
2023 Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy as Larry Dickens
2022 Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story as Narrator (voice)
2021 Sing 2 as Buster Moon (voice)
2021 Come Home as Buster Moon (voice)
2021 Roll Up Your Sleeves as Self
2020 Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read as Mike Damone
2020 Disclosure as Ron Woodroof (archive footage)
2020 One World: Together at Home as Self
2020 The Gentlemen as Michael Pearson Producer
2019 Between Two Ferns: The Movie as Matthew McConaughey
2019 The Beach Bum as Moondog
2019 Serenity as Baker Dill
2018 Friedkin Uncut as Self
2018 White Boy Rick as Richard Wershe Sr.
2017 U2 at The BBC as Self
2017 The Dark Tower as Walter O’Dim
2016 Sing as Buster Moon (voice)
2016 Kubo and the Two Strings as Beetle (voice)
2016 Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny as Self
2016 Free State of Jones as Newton Knight
2016 The Sea of Trees as Arthur Brennan
2016 Gold as Kenny Wells Producer
2015 Inside 'Interstellar' as Self - 'Cooper'
2014 The Science of Interstellar as Narrator (voice)
2014 21 Years: Richard Linklater as Self - Actor
2014 Interstellar as Cooper
2014 Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey as Self
2014 Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years as Self - Host
2014 I Am Evel Knievel as Self
2014 True Detective Executive Producer
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street as Mark Hanna
2013 Dallas Buyers Club as Ron Woodroof
2013 Synthesizers as Woodson
2013 Mud as Mud
2012 The Paperboy as Ward Jansen
2012 We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash as Self
2012 Magic Mike as Dallas
2012 Killer Joe as Killer Joe Cooper
2012 Man in the Glass: The Dale Brown Story as Self
2012 Bernie as Danny Buck Davidson
2011 The Lincoln Lawyer as Mickey Haller
2009 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past as Connor Mead
2008 Surfer, Dude as Steve Addington Producer
2008 Tropic Thunder as Rick Peck
2008 Fool's Gold as Ben 'Finn' Finnegan
2006 We Are Marshall as Jack Lengyel
2006 Failure to Launch as Tripp
2005 Two for the Money as Brandon Lang
2005 Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon as Al Bean (voice)
2005 Absolute Evel: The Evel Knievel Story as Narrator (voice)
2005 Sahara as Dirk Pitt Executive Producer
2005 Making Dazed as Self
2004 Paparazzi as Matthew McConaughey (uncredited)
2003 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days as Benjamin Barry
2002 Tiptoes as Steven
2002 Reign of Fire as Denton Van Zan
2002 Frailty as Meiks
2001 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing as Troy
2001 The Wedding Planner as Steve Edison
2000 Welcome to Hollywood as Matthew McConaughey
2000 U-571 as Lt. Andrew Tyler
1999 EDtv as Ed 'Eddie' Pekurny
1999 The Story of Darrell Royal as Narrator (voice)
1998 Making Sandwiches as Bud Hoagie
1998 The Newton Boys as Willis Newton
1997 Amistad as Roger Sherman Baldwin
1997 Contact as Palmer Joss
1996 Scorpion Spring as El Rojo
1996 Larger Than Life as Tip Tucker
1996 A Time to Kill as Jake Brigance
1996 Lone Star as Buddy Deeds
1996 The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Documentary as Self
1995 Judgement as Deputy Sam Taylor
1995 Glory Daze as Rental Truck Guy
1995 The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre as Vilmer
1995 Submission
1995 Boys on the Side as Abe Lincoln
1994 Angels in the Outfield as Ben Williams
1993 Dazed and Confused as Wooderson
1993 My Boyfriend's Back as Guy #2