Matthew McConaughey

Acting

Born 1969-11-04 Uvalde, Texas, USA 147 credits Academy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 Saturn Awards 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor 1 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won

2014 Best Actor Won Dallas Buyers Club

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

2014 Golden Globe Awards Won Dallas Buyers Club

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 won

— Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Won

Saturn Awards 1 won

— Saturn Awards Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor 1 won

2013 Best Actor Won

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor 1 won

2012 Best Supporting Actor Won Bernie

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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.