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  1. May 8, 2024 · Updated on May 8, 2024 03:55PM EDT. Matthew McConaughey and his mother Mary Kathleen "Kay" McConaughey ; Matthew McConaughey and his father James McConaughey. Photo: Jon...

  2. Oct 17, 2020 · Matthew McConaughey reveals dad died of a heart attack during sex with mom. By. Jessica Bennett. Published Oct. 17, 2020, 11:41 a.m. ET. Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey is gearing up for the...

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    American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is of Irish, Scottish, English, German, and Swedish des...

    He began his acting career in 1991, appearing in student films and commercials in Texas and directed short films as Chicano Chariots (1992). Once, in his hotel bar in Austin, he met the casting director and producer Don Phillips, who introduced him to director Richard Linklater for his next project. At first, Linklater thought Matthew was too hands...

    Shortly thereafter, moving to L.A., Matthew became a sensation with his performances in two high-profile 1996 films Lone Star (1996), where he portrayed killing suspected sheriff and in the film adaptation of John Grisham's novel A Time to Kill (1996), where he played an idealistic young lawyer opposite Sandra Bullock and Kevin Spacey. The actor wa...

    In 1999, he starred in the comedy Edtv (1999), about the rise of reality television, and in 2000, he headlined Jonathan Mostow's U-571 (2000), portraying officer Lt. Tyler, in a WW II story of the daring mission of American submariners trying to capture the Enigma cipher machine.

    • November 4, 1969
  3. Jan 13, 2016 · Matthew McConaughey is synonymous with the South for many reasons—the drawl, the home in Austin, the iconic roles in True Detective and Dallas Buyers Club and even all the way back to A Time to ...

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  5. Nov 17, 2020 · Charles Trepany. USA TODAY. 0:00. 0:24. Matthew McConaughey 's mother is getting candid about the death of her husband and the actor's father, James Donald McConaughey. In a clip from Tuesday's ...

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  6. Nov 16, 2020 · McConaughey’s father died in 1993 when the actor was five days into shooting “Dazed and Confused.” He said he doesn’t classify any of the violence that took place between his parents as abuse.

  7. Matthew McConaughey is the product of a distinctive blend of creativity and hard work, characteristics inherited from his parents, Mary Kathleen “Kay” McCabe and James Donald McConaughey. Hailing from New Jersey, Mary forged a successful career as an author and was the heart and soul within the home. A former kindergarten teacher, she ...