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-drama The 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]

McConaughey at the 2014 Goldene Kamera Awards

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]

In 2015, McConaughey starred alongside Ken Watanabe and Naomi Watts in the Gus Van Sant-directed film The Sea of Trees.^[14] A year later, he starred in the Gary Ross-directed historical war film, Free State of Jones, in which he appeared as Newton Knight, a Mississippi farmer.^[15] He was nominated for a Women Film Critics Circle for Best Actor.^[16] In the same year, he also starred in the Stephen Gaghan-directed crime adventure Gold, and won the Hollywood Ensemble Award at the 20th Hollywood Film Awards^[17][18] and a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actor.^[19] In 2019, McConaughey co-starred with Anne Hathaway in the neo-noir Thriller Serenity directed by Steven Knight, this film earned him a nomination for Worst Actor at the 40th Golden Raspberry Awards.^[20][21]

Film

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes	Ref(s)
1992	Chicano Chariots	—	Short film; Director only	[22]
1993	My Boyfriend's Back	Guy #2		[23][24]
	Dazed and Confused	David Wooderson		[2]
1994	Angels in the Outfield	Ben Williams		[25]
1995	The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre	Vilmer Slaughter	Also known as Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation	[26]
	Boys on the Side	Officer Abe Lincoln		[27]
	Glory Daze	Rental Truck Guy		[28]
	Scorpion Spring	El Rojo		[29][30]
1996	Lone Star	Buddy Deeds		[31]
	A Time to Kill	Jake Brigance		[32]
	Larger than Life	Tip Tucker		[33]
1997	Contact	Palmer Joss		[34]
	Amistad	Roger Sherman Baldwin		[35]
1998	The Newton Boys	Willis Newton		[36]
	Making Sandwiches	Bud Hoagie	Short film; Also producer	[37]
	The Rebel	—	Short film; Producer, writer, and director only	[38]
1999	EDtv	Ed Pekurny		[39]
2000	U-571	Lt. Andrew Tyler		[40]
2001	The Wedding Planner	Steve Edison		[41]
	Frailty	Fenton/Adam Meiks		[42]
2002	Thirteen Conversations About One Thing	Troy		[43]
	Reign of Fire	Denton Van Zan		[44]
2003	How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days	Benjamin Barry		[45]
	Tiptoes	Steven		[46]
2005	Sahara	Dirk Pitt	Also executive producer	[47]
	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D	Al Bean	Documentary; Voice role	[48]
	Two for the Money	Brandon Lang		[49]
2006	Failure to Launch	Tripp		[50]
	We Are Marshall	Jack Lengyel		[51]
2008	Fool's Gold	Ben "Finn" Finnegan		[52]
	Tropic Thunder	Rick Peck		[53]
	Surfer, Dude	Steve Addington	Also producer	[54]
2009	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	Connor Mead		[55]
2011	The Lincoln Lawyer	Mickey Haller		[56]
	Bernie	Danny Buck Davidson		[57]
	Killer Joe	"Killer" Joe Cooper		[58][59]
2012	Mud	Mud		[60]
	Magic Mike	Dallas		[61]
	The Paperboy	Ward Jansen		[62][63]
2013	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof	Academy Award for Best Actor	[64]
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Mark Hanna	Extended cameo	[65]
2014	Interstellar	Cooper		[66]
2015	The Sea of Trees	Arthur Brennan		[67][68]
2016	Free State of Jones	Newton Knight		[69]
	Kubo and the Two Strings	Beetle	Voice role	[70]
	Sing	Buster Moon		[71]
	Gold	Kenny Wells	Also producer	[72][73]
2017	The Dark Tower	Walter Padick		[74][75]
2018	White Boy Rick	Richard Wershe Sr.		[76]
2019	Serenity	Baker Dill		[77]
	The Beach Bum	Moondog		[78]
	Between Two Ferns: The Movie	Himself	Cameo	[79]
	The Gentlemen	Mickey Pearson	Also co-producer	[80]
2021	Sing 2	Buster Moon	Voice role	[81]
2022	Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story	Narrator	Documentary	[82]
2024	Deadpool & Wolverine	Cowboypool	Voice cameo	[83]
	Sing: Thriller	Buster Moon	Voice role; short film	[84]
2025	The Rivals of Amziah King †	Amziah King	Post-production	[85]
TBA	The Lost Bus †	Kevin McKay	Post-production	[86]

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

McConaughey (right) with True Detective co-star Woody Harrelson (left) at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2014

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1992	Unsolved Mysteries	Larry Dickens	Episode: #5.12	[87]
1999	King of the Hill	Rad Thidbodeaux	Episode: "The Wedding of Bobby Hill" Voice role	[88]
2000	Sex and the City	Himself	Episode: "Escape from New York"	[89]
2003	Saturday Night Live	Host	Episode: "Matthew McConaughey/Dixie Chicks"	[90]
	Freedom: A History of US	Charles Fenno Hoffman Alexander H. Stephens Captain W. W. Wood Andrew Johnson John Swinton Mark Twain	6 episodes	[91]
2010–2012	Eastbound & Down	Roy McDaniel	3 episodes	[92]
2014	True Detective	Rustin "Rust" Cohle	Season 1 Also executive producer	[93]
2015	Saturday Night Live	Host	Episode: "Matthew McConaughey/Adele"	[90]
2023	Agent Elvis	Elvis Presley	Voice role; lead actor; also executive producer	[94]
TBA	Brothers	Himself	Main role; also executive producer	[95]

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Role	Ref.
1992	Walkaway Joe	Trisha Yearwood ft. Don Henley	Walkaway Joe	[96]
1996	Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)	John Mellencamp	Male lead	[97]
2012	Synthesizers	Butch Walker and The Black Widows	David Wooderson	[98]
2024	Nine Ball	Zach Bryan	Male lead	[99]

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
TBA	Exodus	C.C. Orlev	Voice	[100]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Matthew McConaughey