This article, Matthew Mcconaughey bio. highlights the existence of the renowned actor. This American actor of the films Dazed and Confused, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Time to Kill and Amistad was born in November 4th 1969 in Uvalde, Texas, USA. He was the youngest of his siblings to a substitute school teacher mother and a gas station owner dad. He grew up in Longview Texas where he graduated from high school in the year 1988. The 44 year old actor is 182 cm tall.
Matthew Mcconaughey bio: Career
After his high school, he showed a little interest in his father’s oil pipe supply business shortly after he thought he would use a change in the environment. He went to Australia for some time and returned to Texas to pursue a law degree. Before he would write his final exams though, he realized his real passion was in the film industry.
Having been voted the most handsome student back in his high school days, he got his breakthrough into the film industry quite easy. He had started by appearing in student movies and TV commercials until Dazed and Confused happened in 1993. Later in 1996, he was casted in yet another great film, A Time To Kill’ starring other popular actors like Sandra bullock, Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson.
More recently, the now famous Matthew Mcconaughey starred in The Wedding Planner ’ in the year 2001 alongside Jennifer Lopez and in 2003 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ’ alongside Kate Hudson. These films have yet proven that he made the king for the romantics. In 2005’s Two for the Money ’, he did his act as a con person. In 2008, there was both Failure to Launch ’ and Fool’s Gold ’, romantic comedies that featured Sarah Jessica Parker and Kate Hudson respectively.
Most recently, Matthew Mcconaughey’s romantic comedy prowess was demonstrated in the Tropic Thunder ’ featuring Ben Stiller and Jack Black in 2008. In the same year, the actor and his girlfriend Camila Alves welcomed their bundle of joy, a bouncing baby boy Levi Alves on 7th of July. Going on into 2009, he did the Ghosts of the Past Girlfriends ’ alongside Jennifer Garner and Michael Douglas. He then went to a break for one year and in 2011, come back with the Lincoln lawyer’ and consecutively in 2012 a drama film called Mud ’. His Magic Mike ’ where he played a male stripper also gained him media acclaim in 2012.
Matthew Mcconaughey bio: stardom
Not only is this successful actor known for his acting prowess but he was in 2005 voted as the sexiest man there ever was. This only propelled this popularity in Hollywood in addition to him gracing the covers of the Vanity Fair magazine back then in 1996. His award winning role in the Oscars came after he played Ron Woodruff, an activist who in the mid-1980 was diagnosed with AIDS. Left with only six weeks to live, Ron went into advocating and taking drugs which only made the situation worse. After losing 30 pounds to take the role in the 2013’s Dallas Buyers Club ’, he bagged the 2014 best actor at the academy awards and golden globes.
Still to Come
Matthew Mcconaughey was confirmed lead actor for “True Detective ’, a HBO series which is set to release in November 2014. This film by Christopher Nolan will be about time travel science fiction.
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