Matthew McConaughey Biography

Matthew McConaughey is an American actor known for roles in films like Dazed and Confused and Dallas Buyers Club, for which he won the Academy Award for best actor, and the TV series True Detective.

Matthew McConaughey was born on November 4, 1969, in Uvalde, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and got his first big break with the 1993 film Dazed and Confused. He later starred in A Time to Kill (1996) and Amistad (1997), among many others. Named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2005, McConaughey more recently starred in Mud (2012) and Dallas Buyers Club (2013), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. McConaughey came on strong in 2014 with his starring role on the HBO series True Detective, a project that propelled him even further on his star trajectory.