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American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is of Irish, Scottish, English, German, and Swedish descent. Matthew grew up in Longview, Texas, where he graduated from the local High School (1988).

Showing little interest in his father's oil business, which his two brothers later joined, Matthew was longing for a change of scenery, and spent a year in Australia, washing dishes and shoveling chicken manure. Back to the States, he attended the University of Texas in Austin, originally wishing to be a lawyer. But, when he discovered an inspirational Og Mandino book 'The Greatest Salesman in the World' before one of his final exams, he suddenly knew he had to change his major from law to film. He began his acting career in 1991, appearing in student films and commercials in Texas and directed short films as (1992). Once, in his hotel bar in Austin, he met the casting director and producer, who introduced him to director for his next project. At first, Linklater thought Matthew was too handsome to play the role of a guy chasing high school girls in his coming-of-age drama (1993), but cast him after Matthew grew out his hair and mustache.

His character was initially in three scenes but the role grew to more than 300 lines as Linklater encouraged him to do some improvisations. In 1995, he starred in (1994), playing a mad bloodthirsty sadistic killer, opposite. Shortly thereafter, moving to L.A., Matthew became a sensation with his performances in two high-profile 1996 films (1996), where he portrayed killing suspected sheriff and in the film adaptation of 's novel (1996), where he played an idealistic young lawyer opposite. The actor was soon being hailed as one of the industry's hottest young leading man inspiring comparisons to actor. His following performances were ' (1997) with (the film was finished just before the death of the great astronomer and popularizer of space science ) and 's (1997), a fact-based 1839 story about the rebellious African slaves.

In 1998, he teamed again with as one of the bank-robbing brothers in (1998), set in Matthew's birthplace, Uvalde, Texas. During this time, he also wrote, directed and starred in the 20-minute short (1998). In 1999, he starred in the comedy (1999), about the rise of reality television, and in 2000, he headlined 's (2000), portraying officer Lt. Tyler, in a WW II story of the daring mission of American submariners trying to capture the Enigma cipher machine.

In the 2000s, he became known for starring in romantic comedies, such as (2001), opposite, and (2003), in which he co-starred with. He played Denton Van Zan, an American warrior and dragons hunter in the futuristic thriller (2002), where he co-starred with. In 2006, he starred in the romantic comedy (2006), and later as head coach Jack Lengyel in (2006), along with. In 2008, he played treasure hunter Benjamin 'Finn' Finnegan in (2008), again with. After playing Connor Mead in (2009), co-starring with, McConaughey took a two year hiatus to open different opportunities in his career. Since 2010, he has moved away from romantic comedies.

That change came in 2011, in his first movie after that pause, when he portrayed criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller in (2011), that operates mostly from the back seat of his Lincoln car. After this performance that was considered one of his best until then, Matthew played other iconic characters as district attorney Danny Buck Davidson in (2011), the wild private detective 'Killer' Joe Cooper in (2011), Mud in (2012), reporter Ward Jensen in (2012), male stripper club owner Dallas in (2012), starring. McConaughey's career certainly reached it's prime, when he played HIV carrier Ron Woodroof in the biographical drama (2013), shot in less than a month. For his portrayal of Ron, Matthew won the Best Actor in the 86th Academy Awards, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, among other awards and nominations. The same year, he also appeared in Martin Scorsese's (2013).

In 2014, he starred in HBO's (2014), as detective Rustin Cohle, whose job is to investigate with his partner Martin Hart, played by, a gruesome murder that happened in his little town in Louisiana. The series was highly acclaimed by critics winning 4 of the 7 categories it was nominated at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards; he also won a Critics' Choice Award for the role.

Also in 2014, Matthew starred in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi film (2014), playing Cooper, a former NASA pilot. IMDb Mini Biography By: Spouse (1) ( 2012 - present) ( 3 children) Trade Mark (4). His ancestry includes Irish, as well as English, German, Scottish and Swedish. On his father's side, he is related to Confederate Brigadier General Dandridge McRae, who was born in Baldwin County, Alabama. One of Matthew's paternal great-grandfathers, Robert Smith Maitland, was a Scottish immigrant, who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom; and one of Matthew's maternal great-grandmothers, Adele Selma Pack, was German, born in Elberfeld, Westphalia, Prussia, German Empire. The surname McConaughey is also of Scottish origin. One of his paternal ancestors, Confederate Brigadier General Dandridge McRae, who fought to keep slavery in the South, was born in Baldwin County, Alabama.

One of McConaughey's most famous early roles was portraying Roger Baldwin, one of the lawyers in (1997), a real life historical person, who fought to free captive slaves, and later became Governor of Connecticut and a US Senator. The lives of McRae (1829-1899) and Baldwin (1793-1863) overlapped in time from October 1829 when McRae was born, until February 1863, when Baldwin died, which was during the US Civil War, which McRae was fighting in at the time. I love taking advantage of my fame.

If I go to the airport and get taken to the front of the line, I'm not going to protest. When I show up to see a band and I get whisked backstage, I like it. If I'm offered the use of a private jet, bring it on. But I draw the line at playing the, 'Do you know who I am?' Card and I refuse to have every little thing done for me.

If you buy into all that, it will show up in your acting. The trick is to understand that being a good actor isn't playing a red-carpet celebrity. Fame is the by-product. If you don't see that, you'll be chasing your tail for a full decade? And that makes a man dizzy. It's important to realize that fame is a dance, and I'd like to think I've got my dance down better now. I'm a loner and proud of it.

I can be the world's most sociable guy and I love few things more than throwing a barbecue for my crowd. But being alone is where it's mostly at for me. Nothing beats the feeling of taking off on my own and driving to wherever the road takes me. I'll drive as far as I can drive, 1,700 miles in one stretch if the mood takes me.

When I left Ireland after filming (2002), I went backpacking on my own in Africa for 26 days. I floated on the Niger River, raced camels in the Sahara Desert, had myself a blast. It's amazing how quickly you shower when you think there might be a python in your room. There were heaps of weird creatures around in Queensland when we were shooting my latest film, (2008). I had an 8 foot python in the coconut tree in my backyard and a 6 foot python in my shed.

When I returned after three weeks, they'd gone. It's one thing having pythons in your garden and knowing they're there; it's a lot more unsettling knowing they're somewhere about but you don't know where. So I was going through every closet and checking under the bed.

Every time I took a bath I got nervous. I'd be washing my hair with my eyes closed and be thinking 'What am I not seeing right now?' With pythons about, you quickly get used to sleeping with one eye open. Who needs a house when you can live in a trailer? People tell me it's not a very Hollywood way to live but it happens to be my preference.

I've lived in big houses and a big space gave me too many options. I had this amazing chair that I loved but I'd go months without sitting on it. I had some nice paintings on the walls but I'd hardly ever look at them. I realized I didn't need those things.

So I went minimalist. My Airstream trailer is 28 feet by 7 feet and it's got everything I need, including TV and wireless Internet. It's stress-free living because my choices are limited. My living space is so small that I can sit on the toilet and scramble eggs at the same time. How cool is that? (2011) I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

And quite a few of them have been real successful. I like to think that they're not shallow-they're light. And it's hard work to keep them light, to keep the comedy buoyant.

If you dig too deep in those, you kill them. In some ways, it's a lot easier to do something like (2011). The punches hit, the bullets land and the consequences are life and death.

I can click into that. (2011, on sudden fame after (1996)) The Friday before it came out, you could have shown my picture to 100 people and asked if they knew who I was and you'd have gotten 99 no's and one yes', he says. 'And the next week, it flipped in the opposite direction. I remember walking down the street in Los Angeles the weekend the movie came out and all these people were looking at me. I remember checking my fly. There was a tremendous amount of frequency cast on me.

The shift was so dramatic that, at times, it was overwhelming. Once the movie had opened, what I did to maintain my sanity was pack a backpack and get a one-way ticket to Peru. I checked out for 19 days and just hiked, anonymously, with no plan. I hiked Macchu Picchu and canoed the Amazon. I just needed to let time catch up with me. (2011, on dealing with the paparazzi) I was tired of getting pissed off.

It was legitimate but I was tired of it. I thought, well, am I ready to move to a place where they weren't?

No, not for good. Was I ready to build fences or tall walls around my house? So I just shook hands with it and dealt with it. So, say I'm taking my kids to the beach. And the photographers are there. I just talk to them and say, 'Okay, go ahead and take your picture.

And then move on.' How many pictures do they need of me running on the beach?

So far, they've mostly respected that. But you've got to have a relationship with that kind of thing if you go out in public because that check's already been written. Sure, I feel intruded upon. But I don't feel it's unfair.

I can't do anything about it unless I move on or imprison myself, and I don't want to live like that. on playing AIDS-challenged Ron Woodroof in (2013) Stay with the anarchy of this guy. Stay with the bigoted bastard. Stay with the guy who's out for self-preservation. Stay with the guy who's a business man.

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The guy wants to be Scarface, man - the cause, and the crusader - and the activist will be revealed. Whether you like him or not, you respect him at the end of the story because you're like, 'I can't believe someone has the courage to be that much of an ass and can still sleep at night.' This is a character who, like him or not, you're like, 'Well that's just who he is.'

And if you can go 'That's who he is', then you get the human. And if you've got the human, he can be a bastard, a homophobe, a bigot, whatever. a memorable audition Worst for me was a Lee Tamahori film. Went for a read for the part of a heavy.

I knew going out, 'Man, you kind of gave 80 percent'. So I got in my truck and turned around - U-turn - came back in, walked right past the secretary, knocked the casting director out of the way, went right up to Tamahori and weight-nailed him against the wall.

I grabbed the next guy and put him in the corner, grabbed like a spoon or something. I just wrecked the room and then left. I didn't hear back from 'em. I didn't study acting before I got my first job. And I thought, 'Hey, maybe you're not the kind of actor that needs to study lines - you just know your man, and you show up and you just do it'. I go do this film (1995), and I get this idea.

'I'm not gonna look at anything. I know what I am - the drug lord on the Mexican border in Texas. I'll just show up on the set, stay fresh and loose.' Well I get down there and I pick this scene, and it's a page-and-a-half monologue in Spanish. I felt this trickle of sweat. 'Um, can you give me twelve minutes?' And I said, 'Never again, man.'

on the reaction to his dieting, losing 47 pounds for his role in (2013) My daughter was looking at me, and she said, 'Why is your neck long like a giraffe?' The giraffe's neck was the only comment I got from them. They saw the transformation day to day.

Now when I went to see someone who I hadn't seen in months, that's the people who would go crazy. It went from 'Is everything alright?' Fathom 2 for mac.

And then it got to 'Are you okay?' And the last one was, 'Oh my God, you're sick.'

At that point, I thought Ron was just the weight he needed to be. on his catchphrase Those were actually the very first words I ever said on screen (in (1993)). 'Alright, alright, alright.' And do you know why I said 'alright' three times? I'm going to give you a callback to something I said five minutes ago.

Because I'm in my car, I'm high, I've got my rock 'n' roll, but I don't have the chick. So I got three out of four that matter to me. So it's just alright, alright, alright! There's no fourth 'alright'.

I gotta pull into the top notch and pick up the fourth.