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1 | He has worked with 6 directors who have won a Best Director Oscar: Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, William Friedkin, Steven Soderbergh, and Martin Scorsese. |
2 | Has played characters named Joseph Cooper in both Killer Joe (2011) and Interstellar (2014). |
3 | He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6931 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 17, 2014. |
4 | The marriage between Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves was a private, Catholic Church ceremony, which took place in Austin, Texas, where they maintain a family residence for part of each year. |
5 | One of his paternal ancestors, Confederate Brigadier General Dandridge McRae, who fought to keep slavery in the South, was born in Baldwin County, Alabama. One of McConaughey's most famous early roles was portraying Roger Baldwin, one of the lawyers in Amistad (1997), a real life historical person, who fought to free captive slaves, and later became Governor of Connecticut and a US Senator. The lives of McRae (1829-1899) and Baldwin (1793-1863) overlapped in time from October 1829 when McRae was born, until February 1863, when Baldwin died, which was during the US Civil War, which McRae was fighting in at the time. |
6 | One of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014] |
7 | He lost 47 pounds to play Ron Woodruff in his Oscar award winning role in Dallas Buyers Club (2013). |
8 | One of his first acting jobs was in a music video for country music star Trisha Yearwood's song with Don Henley, "Walkaway Joe". |
9 | He is from the same small Texas town, Uvalde (2010 census population of 15,751), from which the late, former three-term Governor of Texas, Dolph Briscoe (after whom the post office is named); singer/actress Dale Evans; former Speaker of the US House of Representatives and former Vice President of the United States John Nance Garner; Grammy winning Tejano group Los Palominos; and long time NFL safety Vann McElroy call(ed) home. |
10 | His mother Kay McConaughey appeared in Bernie (2011). |
11 | Became a father for the 3rd time at age 43, when his wife Camila Alves gave birth to their son Livingston Alves McConaughey on December 28, 2012. |
12 | Became a father for the 2nd time at age 40, when his girlfriend [now wife] Camila Alves gave birth to their daughter Vida Alves McConaughey on January 3, 2010. |
13 | Became a father for the 1st time at age 38, when his girlfriend [now wife] Camila Alves gave birth to their son Levi Alves McConaughey on July 7, 2008. |
14 | Is a huge fan of English rock band, The Cult. On March 17, 2012, at one of The Cult's performances in Austin, Texas, he even went onstage and played bongo drums with them during two songs. |
15 | (December 26, 2011) Engaged to Camila Alves. |
16 | His first two L.A. auditions were for Angels in the Outfield (1994) and Boys on the Side (1995), in that order... both of which he landed, learning about being cast in Boys on the Side while physically on the set. |
17 | In Michael Connelly's novel "Nine Dragons", in which Micky Haller, the character McConaughey plays in The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), makes an appearance, a suspect claims that McConaughey is his alibi. |
18 | His original career plan in college was to graduate with studies in pre-law, and then graduate law school, with the goal of becoming a criminal defense attorney, something he'd end up portraying in A Time to Kill (1996) and The Lincoln Lawyer (2011). |
19 | (March 26, 2011) Was in attendance at the wedding of Reese Witherspoon to Jim Toth. |
20 | Good friends with singer-songwriter Jamey Johnson. |
21 | Traveled to France to support his good buddy, Lance Armstrong, during the 2009 Tour De France. [July 2009] |
22 | Has played Brazilian music for eight straight hours in the operating room to help his then girlfriend, Camila Alves (now wife) Camila Alves, give birth to their first child, Levi. |
23 | Attended Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with his girlfriend, Camilla Alves (now Camila Alves). [February 2008] |
24 | His favorite actor is Paul Newman. |
25 | In 2006, he did an interview with Barbara Walters and was very happy with the way it was conducted. As a 'thank you', he gave Walters a foot-rub. |
26 | He chews tobacco. |
27 | Had a dog named "Mrs. Hud", named in appreciation of the movie Hud (1963), which starred his favorite actor, Paul Newman. |
28 | Has his own line of clothing, called "j.k. livin", named for his life's motto, "Just keep living", which is also the name of his charitable foundation. |
29 | Is a huge fan of Willie Nelson. |
30 | He has said that the superhero he would most like to play is The Hulk, but he doubts that it will happen since both Edward Norton and Eric Bana have played him. When someone asked him if he would consider playing Captain America he said that he thinks "Captain America is an awesome name". |
31 | His childhood hero was Evel Knievel, and he has said that he would like to star in a movie based on Knievel's life. |
32 | He was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 10, 2006 in Austin, Texas. The other inductees were Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Cybill Shepherd and Lyle Lovett. |
33 | Afraid of revolving doors. |
34 | In November 2007, he bought a 3,500 square foot, four bed - three bath home in Malibu for $10 million. He was shopping for a home in the area and spotted the property - which was not on the market - and made an offer to the residents for the property, which was accepted. |
35 | He has traveled around Mali in western Africa. |
36 | He was considered for the role of Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997). He then played Dirk Pitt (in Sahara (2005)), who found the Titanic in another adventure. |
37 | Named one of People magazine's "Hottest Bachelors" in 2006. |
38 | Good friends with Lance Armstrong and Jake Gyllenhaal. |
39 | Has worked with such well-known directors as Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Richard Linklater and Jonathan Mostow. |
40 | Announced that he would be auctioning his 1971 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray on eBay, with all of the proceeds of the sale earmarked for donation Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network Hurricane Katrina and Rita relief funds (2005). |
41 | Has three bedrooms in his house and sleeps in all of them in turn. |
42 | He is well known as someone who almost never wears deodorant or cologne. |
43 | His brother, Michael McConaughey, aka Rooster McConaughey, had a son and named him Miller Lyte McConaughey. |
44 | His life motto is "Just keep living". |
45 | Was considered for a role in Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997). |
46 | Turned down a role in The Jackal (1997). |
47 | Chosen by People Magazine as the Sexiest Man Alive in 2005. |
48 | Despite being a native Texan, he is a huge fan of the Washington Redskins NFL team. |
49 | His ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Scottish and Swedish. On his father's side, he is related to Confederate Brigadier General Dandridge McRae, who was born in Baldwin County, Alabama, USA. One of Matthew's paternal great-grandfathers, Robert Smith Maitland, was a Scottish immigrant, who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom; and one of Matthew's maternal great-grandmothers, Adele Selma Pack, was German, born in Elberfeld, Westphalia, Prussia, German Empire. The surname McConaughey is also of Scottish origin. |
50 | During a guest appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), Leno surprised him with an old airline training tape he had acted in. McConaughey had no memory of being in the video. |
51 | He traveled around the United States for a month in his personal Airsteam trailer promoting his movie Sahara (2005). |
52 | Served as the Grand Marshall for the Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Florida. [February 2005] |
53 | Was accompanied by Penélope Cruz to the Grammy Awards in 2005. The couple met on the set of Sahara (2005). |
54 | McConaughey was on the sidelines with the Texas Longhorns football team during the 2006 Rose Bowl, when the Longhorns beat the USC Trojans 41-38. |
55 | Is a huge fan of John Mellencamp's music. Was seen wearing a T-shirt from Mellencamp's "Whenever We Wanted" tour in A Time to Kill (1996). |
56 | His first professional acting job was in a beer commercial. |
57 | His father, James Donald McConaughey, died of a heart attack in August 1992. He once played football for the Green Bay Packers. |
58 | He owns a 1,600-acre ranch in west Texas, which he purchased for $500,000. |
59 | Member of Delta Tau Delta, international college fraternity. |
60 | Voted "Most Handsome" in his senior year of high school. |
61 | Travelled around Peru after filming A Time to Kill (1996). |
62 | Was for some time strongly considered to play Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997), until Leonardo DiCaprio decided to accept the role. |
63 | Police responded to a disturbance call at Matthew's home in Austin, Texas in October 1999. When they arrived, the music was blaring and Matthew was playing bongo drums in the nude. He was with an unknown man and police attempted to arrest both of them after spotting illegal drugs. Matthew resisted arrest. |
64 | Arrested in Austin, Texas for "resisting transportation" after first being under suspicion for marijuana possession. [October 1999] |
65 | Attended and graduated from Longview High School in Longview, Texas in 1988. |
66 | Attended the University of Texas at Austin, College of Communication, where he majored in film, receiving his Bachelor's degree in Radio-Television-Film (1993). |
67 | He lived for a year in Warnervale, New South Wales, Australia, as a 1988 Rotary exchange student in 1988, returning with an adopted Australian accent which remained with him for awhile after returning to the United States. |
68 | His mother, Mary Kathleen "Kay" McCabe, is a schoolteacher. |
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