Age, Biography and Wiki
Matthew McConaughey (Matthew David McConaughey) was born on 4 November, 1969 in Uvalde, Texas, U.S., is an American actor (born 1969). Discover Matthew McConaughey's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?
| Popular As |
Matthew David McConaughey |
| Occupation |
Actor |
| Age |
54 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
| Born |
4 November, 1969 |
| Birthday |
4 November |
| Birthplace |
Uvalde, Texas, U.S. |
| Nationality |
United States
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He is a member of famous Actor with the age 54 years old group.
Matthew McConaughey Height, Weight & Measurements
At 54 years old, Matthew McConaughey height is 6′ 0″ .
| Physical Status |
| Height |
6′ 0″ |
| Weight |
Not Available |
| Body Measurements |
Not Available |
| Eye Color |
Not Available |
| Hair Color |
Not Available |
Who Is Matthew McConaughey's Wife?
His wife is Camila Alves (m. 2012)
| Family |
| Parents |
Not Available |
| Wife |
Camila Alves (m. 2012) |
| Sibling |
Not Available |
| Children |
3 |
Matthew McConaughey Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Matthew McConaughey worth at the age of 54 years old? Matthew McConaughey’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated Matthew McConaughey's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| House |
Not Available |
| Cars |
Not Available |
| Source of Income |
Actor |
Matthew McConaughey Social Network
Timeline
His father, James Donald "Jim" McConaughey, was born in Mississippi in 1929 and raised in Louisiana where he ran an oil pipe supply business; he played for the Kentucky Wildcats and the Houston Cougars college football teams.
Jim was selected by the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) in the 27th round of the 1953 NFL draft.
He was released before the season began and never played an official league game in the NFL.
McConaughey's ancestry includes Irish roots, particularly from the County Cavan/County Monaghan area.
He is a relative of Confederate brigadier general Dandridge McRae.
He had a Methodist upbringing.
McConaughey's parents married each other three times, having divorced each other twice.
He has two older brothers, Michael and Patrick (who was adopted).
Matthew David McConaughey (born November 4, 1969) is an American actor.
McConaughey was born on November 4, 1969, in Uvalde, Texas.
His mother, Mary Kathleen (née McCabe), is a published author and a former kindergarten teacher.
She was originally from Trenton, New Jersey.
McConaughey moved to Longview, Texas, in 1980 and later attended Longview High School.
In 1988 he went to Australia thinking he would be attending a high school in Sydney.
Instead he lived in Warnervale, New South Wales for a year while he went to Gorokan High School (he was a Rotary Youth Exchange student) and worked as an assistant for an attorney and as a bank teller for ANZ.
He attended the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), where he joined the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
He began in the fall of 1989 and graduated in the spring of 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in Radio-Television-Film.
His original plan changed as he had wanted to attend Southern Methodist University until one of his brothers told him that private-school tuition would have been a burden on the family's finances.
He had planned to attend law school after graduation from college but discovered he did not have any interest in becoming a lawyer.
In the early 1990s McConaughey began working in television commercials.
In 1992, he was cast as the boyfriend in the music video for "Walkaway Joe", a song by Trisha Yearwood featuring Don Henley.
Also that year, he acted in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
He had his breakout role with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993).
Bob Balaban's My Boyfriend's Back premiered on August 6, 1993, where McConaughey made his first big screen appearance as Guy 2.
On September 24, Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused premiered.
McConaughey played Wooderson in a large ensemble cast of actors who would later become stars.
He was not originally cast in the film, as the role of Wooderson was originally small and meant to be cast locally for budget purposes.
At the time of casting, he was a film student at the University of Texas in Austin and went out with his girlfriend to the Hyatt hotel bar.
Phillips recalls, "The bartender says to him, 'See that guy down there? That's Don Phillips. He cast Sean Penn in Fast Times.' And Matthew goes, 'I'm gonna go down and talk to this guy.'" Phillips also recalls that Linklater didn't like McConaughey at first "because he was too handsome".
During production, another character named Pickford was meant to be a larger role.
After a number of supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996).
His career progressed with lead roles in the science fiction film Contact (1997), the historical drama Amistad (1997), and the war film U-571 (2000).
In the 2000s, McConaughey became known for starring in romantic comedies, including 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), establishing him as a sex symbol.
In 2011, after a two-year hiatus from film acting, McConaughey began to appear in more dramatic roles, beginning with the legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer.
In 2012, he gained wider praise for his roles as a stripper in Magic Mike and a fugitive in Mud.
McConaughey's portrayal of Ron Woodroof, a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS, in the biopic Dallas Buyers Club (2013) earned him widespread praise and numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor.
He followed it with a supporting role in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and a starring role as Rust Cohle in the first season of HBO's crime anthology series True Detective (2014), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
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).
Michael, nicknamed "Rooster", is a millionaire who starred in the CNBC docu-series West Texas Investors Club and the 2018 A&E reality show Rooster & Butch with Wayne (Butch) Gilliam.
