Full name: Matthew David
McConaughey
Born: 4 november 1969
Birthplace: Uvalde, Texas
Height: 5' 11 3/4"
Education: University of Texas at Austin (Film)
Facts about Matthew McConaughey:
Lived briefly in Australia following high school and adopted an Australian accent
for awhile after returning to the USA
He won MTV movie award for Best Breakthrough Performance for his role in A
Time to Kill in 1997.
He has had continued success over the past years, with movies such as
Boys
on the Side (1995), Contact
(1997, opposite Jodie Foster),
Steven Spielberg's Amistad
(1997), 
The
Newton Boys (1998), EdTv
(also starring Elizabeth
Hurley and Woody Harrelson), U-571
(with Jon Bon Jovi),
The
Wedding Planner (with Jennifer
Lopez), the horror movie Frailty
and more.
Graduated 1988 from Longview High
School, Longview, Texas
Police responded to a disturbance call at Matthew's home in Austin, Tx. in October.
When they arrived, the music was blaring and he was playing bongo drums in the
nude. He was with an unknown man and police attempted to arrest him after spotting
illegal drugs. He resisted arrest.
Member of Delta Tau Delta Internation Fraternity.
Was the first choice to play the lead in
Titanic (1997)
Dated Ashley
Judd.
(1996)
Travelled around Peru after filming A
Time To Kill.
Dated actress Sandra
Bullock, his co-star in A Time To Kill.
He has credited as
a producer of "Last Flight of the Raven (2000)" and "Hands
on a Hardbody, the Documentary (1997)". He also directed a couple of movies,
"The Rebel (1998) " and " Chicano Chariots (1992) ". Wrote
the script of The Rebel himself as well.
Salary
for "Amistad":
$ 1,000,000.
Salary for "The
Wedding Planner": $ 5,000,000
Personal quotes:
"It's important, though, never
to grow too long for your cot. Look on everything with a little bit of ignorance
and innocence."
- Matthew McConaughey, Vanity Fair,
August 1996.
"I'm sitting here thinking
I feel real solid in my shoes. I'm crazy, but I'm not reckless. I'm a bit weird,
but I'm not clinically insane."
- Matthew McConaughey, Rolling Stone,
August 1996.
"The fun part is going to embody
someone else -- another man's mind and gut and usually taking my heart with
me and giving the man my heart somehow. That's about the only constant."
- Matthew McConaughey on acting, December
1997.
"I look at life like a freeway.
You get yourself your seven lanes, enough room to go right and left, and your
direction -- but then don't be afriad to take the exits. It's fun to get lost
along the way, as long as you remember which direction you're going."
- Matthew McConaughey, GQ, July
1997.
"His secret is that he's this
wild Texas boy who looks likes the boy next door. It's the danger lurking behind
those good looks that makes him so appealing."
- Joel Schumacher, on the subject of McConaughey's
undeniable charm
