Puzzle #771: Matthew McConaughey → Keira Knightley

Friday, September 25, 2026

On Friday, September 25, 2026, the daily puzzle asked players to link Matthew McConaughey and Keira Knightley. The two have never been credited in the same movie, so there's no one-move answer. But 28 actors have worked with both of them in their best-known films, so it can be done in just 2 moves.

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The shortest solution

Show the 2-move answer (spoiler)

Matthew McConaughey as Jake Brigance in A Time to Kill (1996), which also stars Samuel L. Jackson as Carl Lee Hailey.
Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), alongside Keira Knightley as Sabé.

The full chain: Matthew McConaughey → A Time to Kill (1996) → Samuel L. Jackson → Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) → Keira Knightley.

Other ways to solve it

Show 3 more 2-move routes (spoilers)

Matthew McConaughey → Contact (1997) → Jena Malone → Pride & Prejudice (2005) → Keira Knightley
Matthew McConaughey → Interstellar (2014) → Mackenzie Foy → The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) → Keira Knightley
Matthew McConaughey → Tropic Thunder (2008) → Reggie Lee → Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) → Keira Knightley

About Matthew McConaughey

Born: November 4, 1969 in Uvalde, Texas, USA
Film career: 1993–2026
Widely seen films: 48 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:

Interstellar (2014) as Cooper
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) as Mark Hanna
Dallas Buyers Club (2013) as Ron Woodroof
Tropic Thunder (2008) as Rick Peck
The Gentlemen (2020) as Michael Pearson
The Dark Tower (2017) as Walter O’Dim

About Keira Knightley

Born: March 26, 1985 in Teddington, London, England, UK
Film career: 1999–2025
Widely seen films: 41 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) as Elizabeth Swann
The Imitation Game (2014) as Joan Clarke
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) as Elizabeth Swann
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) as Sabé
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) as Elizabeth Swann
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) as Elizabeth Swann