Matthew McConaughey parents-American actor, Matthew McConaughey was born on November 4th, 1969 in Uvalde, Texas in the United States of America.
After relocating to Longview, Texas, in 1980, McConaughey went on to enroll at Longview High School. He traveled to Australia in 1988 with the intention of attending a high school in Sydney.
As a Rotary Youth Exchange student, he spent a year living in Warnervale, New South Wales, where he attended Gorokan High School and worked as a bank teller for ANZ and an attorney’s assistant.
He enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), where he became a member of the fraternity Delta Tau Delta. He started in the fall of 1989 and finished with a Bachelor of Science in Radio-Television-Film in the spring of 1993.
Prior to learning that private school tuition would have put a strain on the family’s resources, one of his brothers, he had originally planned to attend Southern Methodist University.
After graduating from college, he had intended to enroll in law school, but he soon realized that he had no interest in practicing law.
Matthew McConaughey career
In a supporting part in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused, McConaughey made his acting debut (1993). His first triumph as a leading actor came in the legal drama A Time to Kill after playing a number of supporting roles (1996).
His acting career advanced with leading parts in the military movie U-571, the historical drama Amistad, and the science fiction movie Contact all released in 1997.
As a result of his roles in romantic comedies such as 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), McConaughey rose to fame in the 2000s and became a sex icon.
After taking a two-year break from appearing in movies, McConaughey returned to it in 2011, starting with the courtroom drama The Lincoln Lawyer.
He received more acclaim in 2012 for his performances as a stripper in Magic Mike and a fugitive in Mud. In the 2013 movie Dallas Buyers Club, McConaughey played Ron Woodroof, a cowboy stricken with AIDS. For this role, he received a lot of acclaim and awards, including the Oscar Award for Best Actor.
After that, he had supporting roles in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and the HBO crime anthology series True Detective (2014), for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series. In the latter role, he played Rust Cohle.
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 its sequel Sing 2 (2021).
Who are Matthew McConaughey’s parents?
McConaughey was born to Mary Kathleen McCabe and James Donald McConaughey. He shares the same parents with his two older brothers, Michael and Patrick.
His mother is a published author and a former kindergarten teacher. She was originally from Trenton, New Jersey and his father who was born in Mississippi in 1929 and raised in Louisiana ran an oil pipe supply business; he played for the Kentucky Wildcats and the Houston Cougars college football teams.
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