Matthew McConaughey filmography

McConaughey at the Goldene Kamera awards in 2014

Matthew McConaughey is an American actor who made his breakthrough by starring in the Richard Linklater-directed coming of age comedy Dazed and Confused in 1993.^[1][2] His first lead role was in the 1996 film adaptation of the John Grisham novel A Time to Kill.^[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. In 1998, he appeared in the Linklater-directed comedy-drama The Newton Boys. During the 2000s, McConaughey was typecast as a romantic comedy lead in the films The Wedding Planner (2001), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Failure to Launch (2006), and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009).^[2][4]

In the early 2010s, McConaughey became better known for his dramatic roles. 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).^[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.^[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).^[8][9]

McConaughey's next role was as Ron Woodroof in the 2013 biographical drama Dallas Buyers Club. His performance garnered him the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor (Drama), and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.^[10][11] He also appeared in the Martin Scorsese-directed The Wolf of Wall Street in 2013. In 2014, McConaughey played detective Rust Cohle in the television crime drama series True Detective and starred in the Christopher Nolan-directed science fiction film Interstellar. The former earned McConaughey a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.^[12][13]

Film

McConaughey at the March 2005 premiere of his film, Sahara in Austin, Texas

McConaughey attending the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011

Title	Year	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
Chicano Chariots	1992	—	Short film Director	[14]
My Boyfriend's Back	1993	Guy #2		[15][16]
Dazed and Confused	1993	David Wooderson		[2]
Angels in the Outfield	1994	Ben Williams		[17]
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation	1994	Vilmer Slaughter		[18]
Boys on the Side	1995	Officer Abe Lincoln		[19]
Glory Daze	1995	Rental Truck Guy		[20]
Lone Star	1996	Buddy Deeds		[21]
A Time to Kill	1996	Jake Brigance		[22]
Larger than Life	1996	Tip Tucker		[23]
Scorpion Spring	1996	El Rojo		[24][25]
Contact	1997	Palmer Joss		[26]
Amistad	1997	Roger Sherman Baldwin		[27]
The Newton Boys	1998	Willis Newton		[28]
Making Sandwiches	1998	Bud Hoagie	Short film Also producer	[29]
The Rebel	1998	—	Short film Director, producer, and writer	[30]
EDtv	1999	Ed Pekurny		[31]
U-571	2000	Lt. Andrew Tyler		[32]
The Wedding Planner	2001	Steve Edison		[33]
Frailty	2002	Fenton/Adam Meiks		[34]
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing	2002	Troy		[35]
Reign of Fire	2002	Denton Van Zan		[36]
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days	2003	Benjamin Barry		[37]
Tiptoes	2003	Steven		[38]
Sahara	2005	Dirk Pitt	Also executive producer	[39]
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D	2005	Al Bean (voice)	Documentary IMAX only	[40]
Two for the Money	2005	Brandon Lang		[41]
Failure to Launch	2006	Tripp		[42]
We Are Marshall	2006	Jack Lengyel		[43]
Fool's Gold	2008	Ben "Finn" Finnegan		[44]
Tropic Thunder	2008	Rick Peck		[45]
Surfer, Dude	2008	Steve Addington	Also producer	[46]
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	2009	Connor Mead		[47]
The Lincoln Lawyer	2011	Mickey Haller		[48]
Bernie	2011	Danny Buck Davidson		[49]
Killer Joe	2011	"Killer" Joe Cooper		[50][51]
Mud	2012	Mud		[52]
Magic Mike	2012	Dallas		[53]
The Paperboy	2012	Ward Jansen		[54][55]
Dallas Buyers Club	2013	Ron Woodroof		[56]
The Wolf of Wall Street	2013	Mark Hanna		[57]
Interstellar	2014	Cooper		[58]
The Sea of Trees	2015	Arthur Brennan		[59][60]
Free State of Jones	2016	Newton Knight		[61]
Kubo and the Two Strings	2016	Beetle/Hanzo (voice)		[62]
Sing	2016	Buster Moon (voice)		[63]
Gold	2016	Kenny Wells		[64][65]
The Dark Tower	2017	Walter Padick	Post-production	[66][67]

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

McConaughey (right) with True Detective co-star Woody Harrelson (left) at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2014

Title	Year	Role	Network	Notes	Ref.
Unsolved Mysteries	1992	Larry Dickens	NBC	Episode: #5.12	[68]
King of the Hill	1999	Rad Thidbodeaux (voice)	FOX	Episode: "The Wedding of Bobby Hill"	[69]
Sex and the City	2000	Himself	HBO	Episode: "Escape from New York"	[70]
Saturday Night Live	2003	Host	NBC	Episode: "Matthew McConaughey/Dixie Chicks"	[71]
Freedom: A History of US	2003	Charles Fenno Hoffman / Alexander H. Stephens / Captain W. W. Wood / Andrew Johnson / John Swinton / Mark Twain	PBS	6 episodes	[72]
Eastbound & Down	2010–12	Roy McDaniel	HBO	3 episodes	[73]
True Detective	2014–present	Rustin "Rust" Cohle	HBO	Season 1 only Also executive producer	[74]
Saturday Night Live	2015	Host	NBC	Episode: "Matthew McConaughey/Adele"	[71]

Music videos

Title	Year	Artist	Role	Ref.
Walkaway Joe	1992	Trisha Yearwood ft. Don Henley	Walkaway Joe	[75]
Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)	1996	John Mellencamp	Unnamed male lead	[76]
Synthesizers	2012	Butch Walker and The Black Widows	David Wooderson	[77]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Matthew McConaughey

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External links

• Matthew McConaughey at the Internet Movie Database