The Biography Channel - Matthew McConaughey Biography

The co-star dating Texan hit the Hollywood big time in A Time To Kill, but was Dazed And Confused when he was arrested for pot possession and naked bongo playing.

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Matthew McConaughey
born: 04-11-1969
birth place: Uvalde, Texas, USA

McConaughey then played protégé to Al Pacino’s mentor figure in ‘Two For The Money’ (2006), a film about sports gambling. This was a largely unchallenging role, the slick pace and script carried by Pacino in an altogether familiar role [see ‘Devil’s Advocate’ (1997) and ‘Any Given Sunday’ (1999)] and McConaughey as a fast talking, fast thinking betting prodigy. Another romantic comedy role opposite Sarah Jessica Parker kept him in the spotlight in ‘Failure to Launch’ (2006).

‘We Are Marshall’ (2006) was an inspirational, against-the-odds movie about the rebuilding of a university football team which lost almost all its members to a plane crash in 1970. McConaughey played a new coach who had to battle to keep the football team programme going. Teaming up with big names once more (Donald Sutherland, Kate Hudson, Ray Winstone), McConaughey echoed his role in ‘Sahara’ with ‘Fool’s Gold’ (2006), a high spirited adventure film with a romantic twist.

2008 saw McConaughey play a desperado personal agent to Ben Stiller’s mega film star in the hilarious post-modern spoof movie, ‘Tropic Thunder’ (2008). Although this was a supporting role, his character provided extra humour to an already magnificent comedy, with his screen time with Tom Cruise especially side-splitting. ‘Surfer, Dude’ (2008) gave McConaughey more hunk cred as evident in the title, bringing to mind his friend Matt Damon’s impression of a shirtless McConaughey on David Letterman. However, ‘Surfer, Dude’ brought up more socially relevant issues than many people gave it credit for.

Juan Hann Ng