Cast & creator
Matthew McConaughey
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Matthew David McConaughey (/məˈkɒnəheɪ/ mə-KON-ə-hay; born November 4, 1969) is an American actor. He achieved his breakthrough with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993). After several 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 appearing in more dramatic roles, starting 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 critical acclaim 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 Sing 2 (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew McConaughey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Matthew David McConaughey
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film credits
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television credits
149
1949–2026 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (158)
Showing 158 of 158 credits
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014
The Daily Show
Self
1996
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The View
Self
1997
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
King of the Hill
Rad Thibodeaux (voice)
1997
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
1992
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
The Tamron Hall Show
Self - Guest
2019
True Detective
Rust Cohle
2014True Detective
Executive Producer
2014
Hot Ones
Self
2015
Sex and the City
Matthew McConaughey
1998
Deadpool & Wolverine
Cowboypool (voice)
2024
Interstellar
Cooper
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
The Last Leg
Self
2013
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Self
2007
Last Meals
Self
2021
Brothers
Matthew McConaughey
2026Brothers
Executive Producer
2026Brothers
Story
2026Brothers
Creator
2026
The Wolf of Wall Street
Mark Hanna
2013
Behind the Music
Self
1997
The Oscars
Self
1953
The Gentlemen
Michael Pearson
2020The Gentlemen
Producer
2020
Today
Self
1952
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Self
2017
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
Self
2019
Eastbound & Down
Roy McDaniel
2009
Sing
Buster Moon (voice)
2016
Best Week Ever
Self
2004Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
The Dark Tower
Walter O’Dim
2017
Sing 2
Buster Moon (voice)
2021
TRL
Self
1998
The Rivals of Amziah King
Amziah King
2026
Tropic Thunder
Rick Peck
2008
Unsolved Mysteries
Larry Dickens (uncredited)
1988
The Russell Howard Hour
Self
2017
The Lost Bus
Kevin McKay
2025
Red Table Talk
Self
2018
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Benjamin Barry
2003
Kubo and the Two Strings
Beetle / Hanzo (voice)
2016
The Men in Blazers Show
Self
2014
A Time to Kill
Jake Brigance
1996
Contact
Palmer Joss
1997
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
Team Martha
2016
Dallas Buyers Club
Ron Woodroof
2013
Failure to Launch
Tripp
2006
Reign of Fire
Denton Van Zan
2002
Dazed and Confused
Wooderson
1993
Agent Elvis
Elvis (voice)
2023Agent Elvis
Executive Producer
2023
The Wedding Planner
Steve Edison
2001
Fool's Gold
Ben 'Finn' Finnegan
2008
Free State of Jones
Newton Knight
2016
Sing: Thriller
Buster Moon (voice)
2024
The Lincoln Lawyer
Mickey Haller
2011
Magic Mike
Dallas
2012
Serenity
Baker Dill
2019
Frailty
Meiks
2002
Gold
Kenny Wells
2016Gold
Producer
2016
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Vilmer
1995
The Sea of Trees
Arthur Brennan
2016
Killer Joe
Killer Joe Cooper
2012
The Emmy Awards
Self
1949
The Oprah Conversation
Self
2020
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Connor Mead
2009
Boys on the Side
Abe Lincoln
1995
Two for the Money
Brandon Lang
2005
Sahara
Dirk Pitt
2005Sahara
Executive Producer
2005
White Boy Rick
Richard Wershe Sr.
2018
Mud
Mud
2013
The Paperboy
Ward Jansen
2012
The Beach Bum
Moondog
2019
U-571
Lt. Andrew Tyler
2000
Thanks a Million
Self
2020
Angels in the Outfield
Ben Williams
1994
We Are Marshall
Jack Lengyel
2006
Cup of Joe
Self
2020
Bear Grylls is Running Wild
Self
2026
Larger Than Life
Tip Tucker
1996
EDtv
Ed 'Eddie' Pekurny
1999
Glory Daze
Rental Truck Guy
1995
Surfer, Dude
Steve Addington
2008Surfer, Dude
Producer
2008
Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years
Self - Host
2014
Paparazzi
Matthew McConaughey (uncredited)
2004
Tiptoes
Steven
2002
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Matthew McConaughey
2019
Lone Star
Buddy Deeds
1996
Welcome to Hollywood
Matthew McConaughey
2000
The Newton Boys
Willis Newton
1998
My Boyfriend's Back
Guy #2
1993
One World: Together at Home
Self
2020My Crazy Life
2005
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Troy
2001
Inside 'Interstellar'
Self - 'Cooper'
2015
21 Years: Richard Linklater
Self - Actor
2014
Making Dazed
Self
2005
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
Self
2014
Scorpion Spring
El Rojo
1996
CMT Insider
Self
2004
The Science of Interstellar
Narrator (voice)
2014
Bernie
Danny Buck Davidson
2012
Roll Up Your Sleeves
Self
2021
Disclosure
Ron Woodroof (archive footage)
2020Positano
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
Self
2025
Come Home
Buster Moon (voice)
2021
I Am Evel Knievel
Self
2014
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
Mike Damone
2020
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
Self
2023
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
Al Bean (voice)
2005
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
Self
2016
Friedkin Uncut
Self
2018
The Brigands of Rattlecreek
Abraham Weiss
Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth
Self (archive footage)
2000
U2 at The BBC
Self
2017
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
Self
2004A CNN & Variety Town Hall Event: Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey
Self
2026Submission
1995
Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story
Narrator (voice)
2022
Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy
Larry Dickens
2023
We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash
Self
2012
Synthesizers
Woodson
2013
05
Self
2021
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Documentary
Self
1996Untitled Mike Hammer Film
Mike Hammer
Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels
Self - Narrator (voice)
2024A Football Life:2006 Rose Bowl
Matthew McConaughey
Abby's Places
Self
2021Making Sandwiches
Bud Hoagie
1998The Story of Darrell Royal
Narrator (voice)
1999
Man in the Glass: The Dale Brown Story
Self
2012
Amistad
Roger Sherman Baldwin
1997
Teen Choice Awards
Self
1999
Absolute Evel: The Evel Knievel Story
Narrator (voice)
2005Dazed and Confused: Behind the Scenes
Celebrities Uncensored
Self
2003
Judgement
Deputy Sam Taylor
1995