Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor and producer. He first gained notice for his supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused. His breakthrough performance as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill. In 2014, he starred as Rust Cohle in the first season of HBO’s crime anthology series True Detective. In 2013, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Ron Woodroof in the biopic Dallas Buyers Club.
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Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor and producer. He first gained notice for his supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused. His breakthrough performance as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill. 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. In the 2000s, he became best known for starring in romantic comedies, including The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Fool’s Gold, and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. In 2013, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Ron Woodroof, a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS, in the biopic Dallas Buyers Club. His film roles since have included Interstellar, The Sea of Trees, Free State of Jones, Gold, The Dark Tower, and The Gentlemen. He has two older brothers, Michael and Patrick. He also has a self-made millionaire who stars in the CNBC docu-series West Texas Investors Club, and as of 2018 stars on the A&E reality show Rooster & Butch with Wayne Gilliam. He is a relative of Confederate brigadier general Dandridge McRae. He had a Methodist upbringing. He lived in Australia for a year, in Warnervale, New South Wales, as a Rotary Youth Exchange student in 1988. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he joined Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
He began in the fall of 1989 and graduated in the spring of 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in Radio-Television-Film. In 1992, he was cast as boyfriend in Trisha Yearwood’s Walkaway Joe”, a collaboration with Don Henley. Also that year, he acted in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries’s My Boyfriend’s Back’s Back. He made his first big screen appearance as ”Guy 2”. On 23 September 2013, Mcconaughey played Wooderson in a large ensemble cast of actors who would later become stars, including Jason London, Adam Goldberg, Joey Parker, and Rory Cochrane. He was also cast as the boyfriend in a music video for WalkawayJoe’s song “Walkaway Joe” He has a brother, Michael, nicknamed ‘Rooster’, and a sister, Mary Kathleen ‘KMac’, who is a former kindergarten teacher and published author. His father, James Donald ‘Jim’, was born in Mississippi in 1929 and raised in Louisiana. He played for the Kentucky Wildcats and the Houston Cougars college football teams. In 1953, Jim was drafted in the 27th round by the Green Bay Packers, but was released before the season began and never played an official league game in the NFL. He is from the CavanMonaghan area. His ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Swedish, with some of his Irish roots.
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