Matthew David McConaughey (pronounced /məˈkÉ‘nəˌheɪ/; born November 4, 1969) is an American actor. After a series of minor roles in the early 1990s (including his breakout role in Dazed and Confused (1993), director Richard Linklater's second feature film), he appeared in films such as A Time to Kill (1996), Contact (1997), U-571 (2000), Sahara (2005), and We Are Marshall (2007). Read more...

On October 24, 1999, McConaughey was arrested at his home in Austin, Texas on charges of possession of marijuana and resisting arrest. The police were responding to a 2:30 a.m. noise disturbance call. According to police reports, McConaughey was dancing around naked and playing bongo drums with a friend, actor Cole Hauser, a co-actor in Dazed and Confused (1993). The drug charges were dropped, but Read more...

McConaughey began his acting career in 1991, appearing in student films and television commercials while attending the College of Communication at the University of Texas in Austin before being cast in Richard Linklater's film Dazed and Confused (1993). Also, during this period he played the neglectful boyfriend in country singer Trisha Yearwood's video "Walkaway Joe". After appearing in some additional Read more...