Matthew McConaughey filmography

Matthew McConaughey is an American actor who made his breakthrough by starring in the Richard Linklater-directed coming of age comedy Dazed and Confused in 1993.[1][2] His first lead role was in the 1996 film adaptation of the John Grisham novel A Time to Kill.[3] The following year, McConaughey played the lawyer Roger Sherman Baldwin opposite Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins in the Steven Spielberg-directed historical drama Amistad, and also starred opposite Jodie Foster in the Robert Zemeckis-directed science fiction drama Contact. In 1998, he appeared in the Linklater-directed comedy-dramaThe Newton Boys. During the 2000s, McConaughey was typecast as a romantic comedy lead in the films The Wedding Planner (2001), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Failure to Launch (2006), and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009).[2][4]
In the early 2010s, McConaughey became better known for his dramatic roles. This reinvention was cited in the media as the "McConaissance" and started when he played Mickey Haller in the adaptation of the Michael Connelly novel of the same name The Lincoln Lawyer, and reunited with Linklater on the black comedy Bernie (both 2011).[2][4][5] In the same year he played the title role in the Southern Gothic crime film Killer Joe, for which he received the Saturn Award for Best Actor.[6] The following year he starred in the coming-of-age drama Mud(2012),[7] and also played a supporting role in the Steven Soderbergh-directed comedy-drama Magic Mike (2012).[8][9]
McConaughey's next role was as Ron Woodroof in the 2013 biographical drama Dallas Buyers Club. His performance garnered him the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor (Drama), and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.[10][11] He also appeared in the Martin Scorsese-directed The Wolf of Wall Street in 2013. In 2014, McConaughey played detective Rust Cohle in the television crime drama series True Detective and starred in the Christopher Nolan-directed science fiction film Interstellar. The former earned McConaughey a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.[12][13]
== Film ==
Title 	Year	Role 	Notes 	Ref(s)
Chicano Chariots 	1992	— 	Short film
Director 	[14]
My Boyfriend's Back 	1993	Guy #2 	 	[15][16]
Dazed and Confused 	1993	David Wooderson 	 	[2]
Angels in the Outfield 	1994	Ben Williams 	 	[17]
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation 	1994	Vilmer Slaughter 	 	[18]
Boys on the Side 	1995	Officer Abe Lincoln 	 	[19]
Glory Daze 	1995	Rental Truck Guy 	 	[20]
Lone Star 	1996	Buddy Deeds 	 	[21]
A Time to Kill 	1996	Jake Brigance 	 	[22]
Larger than Life 	1996	Tip Tucker 	 	[23]
Scorpion Spring 	1996	El Rojo 	 	[24][25]
Contact 	1997	Palmer Joss 	 	[26]
Amistad 	1997	Roger Sherman Baldwin	 	[27]
The Newton Boys 	1998	Willis Newton 	 	[28]
Making Sandwiches 	1998	Bud Hoagie 	Short film
Also producer	[29]
The Rebel 	1998	— 	Short film
Director, producer, and writer	[30]
EDtv 	1999	Ed Pekurny 	 	[31]
U-571 	2000	Lt. Andrew Tyler 	 	[32]
The Wedding Planner 	2001	Steve Edison 	 	[33]
Frailty 	2002	Fenton/Adam Meiks 	 	[34]
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 	2002	Troy 	 	[35]
Reign of Fire 	2002	Denton Van Zan 	 	[36]
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 	2003	Benjamin Barry 	 	[37]
Tiptoes 	2003	Steven 	 	[38]
Sahara 	2005	Dirk Pitt 	Also executive producer	[39]
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D	2005	Al Bean (voice) 	Documentary
IMAX only 	[40]
Two for the Money 	2005	Brandon Lang 	 	[41]
Failure to Launch 	2006	Tripp 	 	[42]
We Are Marshall 	2006	Jack Lengyel 	 	[43]
Fool's Gold 	2008	Ben "Finn" Finnegan 	 	[44]
Tropic Thunder 	2008	Rick Peck 	 	[45]
Surfer, Dude 	2008	Steve Addington 	Also producer 	[46]
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past 	2009	Connor Mead 	 	[47]
The Lincoln Lawyer 	2011	Mickey Haller 	 	[48]
Bernie 	2011	Danny Buck Davidson 	 	[49]
Killer Joe 	2011	"Killer" Joe Cooper 	 	[50][51]
Mud 	2012	Mud 	 	[52]
Magic Mike 	2012	Dallas 	 	[53]
The Paperboy 	2012	Ward Jansen 	 	[54][55]
Dallas Buyers Club 	2013	Ron Woodroof 	 	[56]
The Wolf of Wall Street 	2013	Mark Hanna 	 	[57]
Interstellar 	2014	Cooper 	 	[58]
The Sea of Trees 	2015	Arthur Brennan 	 	[59][60]
Free State of Jones 	2016	Newton Knight 	 	[61]
Kubo and the Two Strings 	2016	Beetle/Hanzo (voice) 	 	[62]
Sing 	2016	Buster Moon (voice) 	 	[63]
Gold 	2016	Kenny Wells 	 	[64][65]
The Dark Tower 	2017	Walter Padick 	 	[66][67]
White Boy Rick 	2018	Richard Wershe Sr. 	 	[68]
Zootopia 2 	2018	Buster MoonVoice 	 	[68]
== Television ==
Title 	Year(s) 	Role 	Network	Notes 	Ref.
Unsolved Mysteries 	1992 	Larry Dickens 	NBC 	Episode: #5.12 	[72]
King of the Hill 	1999 	Rad Thidbodeaux (voice) 	FOX 	Episode: "The Wedding of Bobby Hill" 	[73]
Sex and the City 	2000 	Himself 	HBO 	Episode: "Escape from New York" 	[74]
Saturday Night Live 	2003 	Host 	NBC 	Episode: "Matthew McConaughey/Dixie Chicks"	[75]
Freedom: A History of US	2003 	Charles Fenno Hoffman / Alexander H. Stephens / Captain W. W. Wood/ Andrew Johnson / John Swinton / Mark Twain	PBS 	6 episodes 	[76]
Eastbound & Down 	2010–2012	Roy McDaniel 	HBO 	3 episodes 	[77]
True Detective 	2014 	Rustin "Rust" Cohle 	HBO 	Season 1
Also executive producer 	[78]
Saturday Night Live 	2015 	Host 	NBC 	Episode: "Matthew McConaughey/Adele" 	[75]