Net Worth: | $160 Million |
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Date of Birth: | November 4, 1969 (55 years old) |
Gender: | Male |
Height: | 5 ft 11 in (1.82 m) |
Profession: | Actor, Voice Actor, Film Producer, Film director, Television producer |
Nationality: | United States of America |
What is Matthew McConaughey’s Net Worth?
Matthew McConaughey is an American actor and producer who has a net worth of $160 million. Following his breakout role in Dazed and Confused, Matthew McConaughey gained popularity as a leading actor in a number of romantic comedies.
McConaughey is currently one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces, and he has won countless awards for his performances in both comedic and tragic roles.
Childhood
Matthew David McConaughey was born on November 4th of 1969 in Uvalde, Texas. His parents were an oil sector businessman and a former kindergarten teacher, respectively. Over the course of their marriages, McConaughey’s parents got divorced two times altogether and three times each. The brothers of Matthew are two.
McConaughey participated in an exchange program as a high school student and spent a year living there. After graduating from high school, he enrolled in U-T Austin. He eventually graduated from college in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in radio, television, and film. Despite his initial interest, McConaughey ultimately decided to pursue acting rather than law.
Career
McConaughey first appeared in ads for television, but his big break came in 1993 when he played a supporting role in Dazed and Confused. His performance made him a fan favorite right away, and the statement “All okay all right all right” has since become a well-known passage in popular culture.
In the years that followed, McConaughey made several minor supporting appearances in films like Boys on the Side, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The New Generation, and Angels in the Outfield. He also appeared on the television program Unsolved Mysteries. He played the first major leading man role in A Time To Kill, released in 1996.
McConaughey’s performance unquestionably showed his ability to carry a major Hollywood film, despite the courtroom drama’s varied (but mainly positive) reviews. Around $152 million was made globally from the success of A Time To Kill at the box office.
In other films, including Contact, Amistad, and EDtv, McConaughey played the lead role in the 1990s. The Newton Boys was a 1998 movie in which McConaughey starred. A group of brothers from McConaughey’s hometown of Ulvade who turned into bank robbers was the subject of the movie.
A box office failure, the movie only made slightly more than $10 million on a $27 million budget, despite the generally positive reviews it garnered. In the 2000 film U-571 about World War II, McConaughey portrayed the title character.
The movie earned a respectable $127 million at the box office and was well-reviewed by critics, however, later research revealed the picture to include significant factual mistakes.
In the 2000s, McConaughey predominantly starred in romantic comedies. He appeared in a number of films during the course of the decade, including The Wedding Planner, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Fool’s Gold, and Failure to Launch.
Despite the fact that all of the films were box office hits, only How to Love a Guy in 10 Days received particularly positive reviews. Later, McConaughey said that he wasn’t a fan of romantic comedies.
Nonetheless, during the decade, McConaughey managed to fit in a lot of other projects. In the 2002 film Reign of Fire, he shared the screen alongside Christian Bale. McConaughey plays a futuristic dragon hunter in this dismal depiction of the future of Britain.
2014 was an eventful year for McConaughey. He additionally made a cameo in the psychological science fiction thriller Interstellar. With The Sea of Trees (2015) and Free State of Jones and Gold (2016), McConaughey made his acting debut in movies. In the critically criticized 2017 film The Dark Tower, he played the lead role.
He performed marginally better in a supporting capacity in the 2018 movie White Boy Rick. The Matias McConaughey-starring 2019 film Serenity received yet another negative review. McConaughey won praise from critics all over the world for his portrayal of a stoner, despite the fact that Beach Bum was seen as a failure.
Accolades
Throughout the course of his acting career, Matthew McConaughey has received a number of accolades and awards. He earned a People’s Choice Award in 2006 for his performance in Sahara.
For his work in Dallas Buyers Club in 2014, McConaughey received a variety of honors, including the Oscar Award for Best Actor, the Critics’ Choice Movie Award, the Golden Globe Award, and the Independent Spirit Award.
He was also honored with a Critics’ Choice Television Award in that same year for his performance on True Detective. McConaughey concluded 2014 by receiving a star of his own on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Philanthropy
Matthew McConaughey has gotten deeply involved in charitable activity throughout the years. He established the Just Keep Livin’ foundation, which inspires kids and teens to lead fulfilling lives. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he also assisted in the rescue of other animals that had become stranded.
Real Estate
In 2007 Matthew spent $10 million buying a house in Malibu, California’s Point Dume neighborhood. In July 2020, he agreed to an off-market agreement in which he sold the house to movie producer and director Phil Lord for $15 million.
In addition, he has long maintained a 10,000-square-foot property in Austin, Texas, and continues to maintain many Airstream trailers in a neighboring affluent mobile home park.
Relationship
McConaughey first met Camila Alves, the woman who would become his wife, in 2006. Alves is a Brazilian-American model and fashion designer. The couple got hitched in 2012. The McConaughey and Alves family resides in Austin, Texas, and they are the parents of three kids in all. McConaughey is a Christian, and he wed in a Catholic ceremony.
McConaughey enjoys athletics a lot as well. His favorite team is the Washington Redskins, and he also cheers for the Texas Longhorns. Moreover, McConaughey has a small stake in the Major League Soccer franchise Austin FC (MLS).
Since 2015, McConaughey has been a guest instructor for their radio-television-film department.
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