{"id":5691,"count":2,"description":"Matthew David McConaughey\u00a0(\/m\u0259\u02c8k\u0252n\u0259he\u026a\/\u00a0m\u0259-KON-\u0259-hay; born November 4, 1969) is an American actor. He achieved his breakthrough with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy\u00a0Dazed and Confused\u00a0(1993). After several supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama\u00a0A Time to Kill (1996). His career progressed with lead roles in the science fiction film\u00a0Contact\u00a0(1997), the historical drama\u00a0Amistad\u00a0(1997), and the war film\u00a0U-571 (2000).\n\nIn the 2000s, McConaughey became known for starring in romantic comedies, including\u00a0The Wedding Planner\u00a0(2001),\u00a0How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days\u00a0(2003),\u00a0Failure to Launch\u00a0(2006),\u00a0Fool's Gold (2008), and\u00a0Ghosts of Girlfriends Past\u00a0(2009), establishing him as a\u00a0sex symbol. In 2011, after a two-year hiatus from film acting, McConaughey began appearing in more dramatic roles, starting with the legal drama\u00a0The Lincoln Lawyer. In 2012, he gained wider praise for his roles as a stripper in\u00a0Magic Mike\u00a0and a fugitive in\u00a0Mud.\n\nMcConaughey's portrayal of\u00a0Ron Woodroof, a cowboy diagnosed with\u00a0AIDS, in the biopic\u00a0Dallas Buyers Club\u00a0(2013) earned him widespread critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Actor. He followed it with a supporting role in\u00a0The Wolf of Wall Street\u00a0(2013), and a starring role as\u00a0Rust Cohle\u00a0in the\u00a0first season\u00a0of\u00a0HBO's crime anthology series\u00a0True Detective\u00a0(2014), for which he was nominated for the\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. His subsequent film roles include starring in\u00a0Interstellar\u00a0(2014) and\u00a0The Gentlemen\u00a0(2019), as well as voice work in\u00a0Kubo and the Two Strings\u00a0(2016),\u00a0Sing\u00a0(2016), and\u00a0Sing 2\u00a0(2021).\n\nDescription above from the Wikipedia article Matthew McConaughey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/actor\/matthew-mcconaughey\/","name":"Matthew McConaughey","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey","taxonomy":"actor","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor\/5691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/actor"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movie?actor=5691"},{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?actor=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}