To understand me, you need to understand Texan logic. https://www.biography.com/actor/matthew-mcconaughey. I can go anywhere in the world but my spirit is still Texan and I recognize my own kind. He then opened 2019 alongside Anne Hathaway in the thriller Serenity, before returning to a patented stoner-type role for The Beach Bum, and portraying cannabis kingpin Mickey Pearson in Guy Ritchie's action comedy The Gentlemen. He was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 10, 2006 in Austin, Texas. Whoopi Goldberg/Christian Slater/Of Monsters and Men, Derek Jeter/James Marsden/5 Seconds of Summer, Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth.

How cool is that? Matthew McConaughey was born on the 4th of November 1969, in Uvalde, Texas, United States of America. - IMDb Mini Biography By:

Tried for Herd Immunity, Jennifer Aniston, Sean Penn, Julia Roberts Team for, Matthew McConaughey on His Memoir Writing Process: 52 Days Alone in the Desert (Without Electricity! He starred in The Wedding Planner (2001) with Jennifer Lopez and then in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) with Kate Hudson.

His endlessly quotable David Wooderson character would help define the actor going forward, and the role represents a touchstone comedic performance in his oeuvre. The trick is to understand that being a good actor isn't playing a red-carpet celebrity. He had spent a year in Warnervale, New South Wales, Australia as a Rotary exchange student in 1988.

After playing Connor Mead in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), co-starring with Jennifer Garner, McConaughey took a two year hiatus to open different opportunities in his career.

When they arrived, the music was blaring and Matthew was playing bongo drums in the nude. And you're like, "Man, look at you go!

I go do this film, [on the reaction to his dieting, losing 47 pounds for his role in, [on his catchphrase] Those were actually the very first words I ever said on screen (in, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, Tzvetislav Samardjiev, tzvetislav@abv.bg, Marcelo Gaia, and Pedro Borges, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Fame is the by-product. My worst quality is selfishness, although everyone is guilty of that to an extent. The following year, he took on the role of real-life Confederate army deserter Newton Knight in Free State of Jones and voiced the character Beetle in the animated film Kubo and the Two Strings. Has his own line of clothing, called "j.k. livin", named for his life's motto, "Just keep living", which is also the name of his charitable foundation. I grabbed the next guy and put him in the corner, grabbed like a spoon or something.

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When I show up to see a band and I get whisked backstage, I like it.

Mathew is good friends with Lance Armstrong, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Reese Witherspoon. Also in 2012, McConaughey gained some commercial acclaim for his performance in the comedic film Magic Mike; he played Dallas, a male stripper who mentors a younger performer known as Magic Mike (Channing Tatum). 2010).

At first, Linklater thought Matthew was too handsome to play the role of a guy chasing high school girls in his coming-of-age drama Dazed and Confused (1993), but cast him after Matthew grew out his hair and mustache.

His first professional acting job was in a beer commercial. Hollywood is a pleasant place, when you are hip to the game and you enjoy it for what it is really.

It's just me and my backpack. He was an athlete at a young age, playing golf and tennis at Longview High School, and was voted "Most Handsome Student." He was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 10, 2006, in Austin, Texas. He has appeared in a number of TV commercials, including Stetson cologne, US Peace Corps, Dolce and Gabbana, and Lincoln MKC luxury utility.

and that makes a man dizzy. He played Denton Van Zan, an American warrior and dragons hunter in the futuristic thriller Reign of Fire (2002), where he co-starred with Christian Bale. It was legitimate but I was tired of it. Matthew McConaughey dated – Ashley Judd (1996) – In 1996, Matthew and Ashley played in the same movie “A Time to Kill” as husband and wife. In 1998, he teamed again with Richard Linklater as one of the bank-robbing brothers in The Newton Boys (1998), set in Matthew's birthplace, Uvalde, Texas. [10][11] He also appeared in the Martin Scorsese-directed The Wolf of Wall Street in 2013. McConaughey was on the sidelines with the Texas Longhorns football team during the 2006 Rose Bowl, when the Longhorns beat the USC Trojans 41-38.

He is of Irish, Scottish, English, German, and Swedish descent. For his efforts, McConaughey was nominated for an Emmy and was also named to Time magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People in the World. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. Returning to his comedic roots, McConaughey starred in 1999's EdTV as a lowly clerk who becomes the star of his own reality show.

His character was initially in three scenes but the role grew to more than 300 lines as Linklater encouraged him to do some improvisations. [6] The following year he starred in the coming-of-age drama Mud (2012),[7] and also played a supporting role in the Steven Soderbergh-directed comedy-drama Magic Mike (2012).

(2011) I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. He is currently 50 years old. So I went minimalist. He is of Irish, Scottish, English, German, and Swedish ... Another [April 2014], One of his paternal ancestors, Confederate Brigadier General Dandridge McRae, who fought to keep slavery in the South, was born in Baldwin County, Alabama. [2][4][5] In the same year he played the title role in the Southern Gothic crime film Killer Joe, for which he received the Saturn Award for Best Actor. [on working with teenage actors Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland in, [on playing AIDS-challenged Ron Woodroof in. I can be the world's most sociable guy and I love few things more than throwing a barbecue for my crowd. [3] The following year, McConaughey played the lawyer Roger Sherman Baldwin opposite Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins in the Steven Spielberg-directed historical drama Amistad, and also starred opposite Jodie Foster in the Robert Zemeckis-directed science fiction drama Contact.

[February 2005], He traveled around the United States for a month in his personal Airsteam trailer promoting his movie. I just talk to them and say, "Okay, go ahead and take your picture. Announced that he would be auctioning his 1971 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray on eBay, with all of the proceeds of the sale earmarked for donation, Has worked with such well-known directors as. [on shapely women] I see it more with black women, who get dressed up and they're wearin' everything to fit snug, and they're walking the walk. On his father's side, he is related to Confederate Brigadier General Dandridge McRae, who was born in Baldwin County, Alabama. That same year, he starred in Steven Spielberg's Amistad, playing a lawyer involved in the trial of African slaves who staged a revolt on board the slave ship Amistad. 2012), and daughter Vida (b. It's good for getting away from the industry.

Making the cover of Vanity Fair in 1996, McConaughey was seen as a rising star in Hollywood, and he had several dramatic projects that helped further establish his talents as an actor. In November 2007, he bought a 3,500 square foot, four bed - three bath home in Malibu for $10 million. American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. He is a huge fan of the Washington Redskins NFL team. Matthew David McConaughey was born on November 4, 1969, in Uvalde, Texas. His popularity further propelled with his role on HBO’s True Detective, for which he won the Critics’ Choice Television Award and TCA Award. This reinvention was cited in the media as the "McConaissance" and started when he played Mickey Haller in the adaptation of the Michael Connelly novel of the same name The Lincoln Lawyer, and reunited with Linklater on the black comedy Bernie (both 2011). Matthew McConaughey, Actor: Dallas Buyers Club. [October 1999].

I thought, well, am I ready to move to a place where they weren't?

Is It Hot In Here, Or Is It Just These 50+ Shirtless Photos of Our Previous Sexiest Men Alive? I've had that motto since I was 21.

Where did you get that?". The complex role of Rust Cohle was dark and philosophical, and it gave the actor a whole new arena in which to stretch his legs. One of Matthew's paternal great-grandfathers, Robert Smith Maitland, was a Scottish emigrant, who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland; and one of Matthew's maternal great-grandmothers, Adele Selma Pack, was a German emigrant, born in Elberfeld, Westphalia, Prussia, German Empire. (on Hollywood) I love it. McConaughey's career certainly reached it's prime, when he played HIV carrier Ron Woodroof in the biographical drama Dallas Buyers Club (2013), shot in less than a month.

Matthew McConaughey Age 50 Years Old. Paternal great-grandson of James (May 24, 1867-September 1, 1922), born in Texas, and Frances (née King) McConaughey (June 28, 1876-April 15, 1969), born in Iowa.

Eventually, they broke up the same year after dating for a couple of months. And quite a few of them have been real successful.

If I go to the airport and get taken to the front of the line, I'm not going to protest. Matthew McConaughey is an Academy Award-winning actor known for roles in films like 'Dazed and Confused' and 'Dallas Buyers Club,' and the TV series 'True Detective.'.

I'm resilient, too. The film was both a critical and commercial disappointment. We're independent. There, they discovered a naked McConaughey playing the bongos and found a small amount of marijuana. Chosen by People Magazine as the Sexiest Man Alive in 2005.

I like to think that they're not shallow--they're light. Matthew Gray Gubler is best known for his portrayal of an FBI agent on the hit show 'Criminal Minds.'.

According to authoritative sources, Matthew McConaughey has a net worth of $95 million. His mother, Mary Kathleen "Kay" McCabe, is a schoolteacher. Voted "Most Handsome" in his senior year of high school.