|
A chance meeting with producer and casting director Don Phillips led to Matthew McConaughey's first film role, in Dazed and Confused, in 1993. At the time, McConaughey was a student at the University of Texas at Austin, working on a degree in film production. It was a line from that film — "You just gotta keep livin', man" — that gave McConaughey the name for the production company he would later form, "j.k. livin' ", short for "just keep livin' ".
Born on November 4, 1969, in Uvalde, TX, McConaughey has acted in dozens of films, including, A Time to Kill, Contact, Amistad, EdTV, U-571, The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Failure to Launch and Tropic Thunder. He has also appeared as a guest in several television programs, and has guest-hosted on Saturday Night Live.
Last updated: March 16, 2009.
© 1999-present by Answers Corporation. All rights reserved.
