His mother, Mary Kathleen “Kay” (née McCabe), was a kindergarten teacher, and his father, James Donald McConaughey, was a gas-station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business and once played football for the Green Bay Packers. McConaughey began his acting career in 1991, appearing in television commercials, before being cast in Richard Linklater’s film Dazed and Confused, which became a critical success, garnering largely positive reviews. McConaughey was cast in leading roles in many more movies: Contact, Amistad, The Newton Boys, EDtv, and U-571. On September 10, 2000, he appears as himself on the show Sex and the City on HBO, talking with Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) about optioning her columns to make a movie. That same year, McConaughey was named People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for 2005.

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He lived for a year in Warnervale, New South Wales, Australia, as a Rotary exchange student in 1988. He began in fall of 1989 and graduated in the spring of 1993 with a B.S. degree in Radio-Television-Film. McConaughey began his acting career in 1991, appearing in television commercials, before being cast in Richard Linklater’s film Dazed and Confused, which became a critical success, garnering largely positive reviews. McConaughey was cast in leading roles in many more movies: Contact, Amistad, The Newton Boys, EDtv, and U-571. By the early 2000s, he was frequently cast in romantic comedies, including The Wedding Planner and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, both of which were successful at the box office. During this period, he appeared as a firefighter in the low-budget film Tiptoes, opposite Rene Russo, in Two For The Money as a protege to Al Pacino’s gambling mogul, and in Frailty, cast against type as a serial killer, opposite Bill Paxton. Matthew’s production company, j.k. livin, is currently in development on projects with Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. He also appeared in Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder, replacing Owen Wilson after Wilson’s suicide attempt.