Matthew McConaughey
McConaughey (pronounced “ma-KON-a-hay”), the youngest of three boys, was born in Uvalde, Texas, son of Mary Kathlene “Kay” (McCabe), a substitute school teacher, and James Donald McConaughey, a gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business and once played football for the Green Bay Packers. McConaughey has Irish ancestry and had what he describes as a conservative Christian upbringing. McConaughey’s mother and late father divorced and re-married each other several times, in what McConaughey describes as a “loving, but unstable relationship”.
McConaughey moved to Longview, Texas in 1980 and graduated from Longview High School in 1988, where he was voted the “Most Handsome”. Matthew lived for a year in Warnervale, NSW, Australia as a Rotary exchange student. He studied film direction at the University of Texas at Austin and was a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, graduating in 1993.
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