Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor and producer. He is born in November 4, 1969. McConaughey recognized that his "lifestyle, living on the beach, running with my shirt off, doing romantic comedies" had caused him to be typecast for certain roles, and he sought dramatic work with other themes. In 2019, McConaughey officially became a professor of practice for the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the Moody College of Communication in his alma mater, UT-Austin; he had served as a visiting instructor since 2015.The first two sessions were about the filming of the movie Free State of Jones. In 2019, he became a minority owner of Austin FC, a team in Major League Soccer scheduled to begin play in 2021.