True Detective : Created by Nic Pizzolatto, Issa López. With Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Matthew McConaughey. Anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law. True Detective : Created by Nic Pizzolatto, Issa López. With Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Matthew McConaughey. Anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law. Find out who starred in the anthology crime drama series True Detective, created by Nic Pizzolatto and Issa López. See the full list of directors, writers, and actors who played detectives, suspects, and other roles in each season. Find out who starred in the anthology crime drama series True Detective, created by Nic Pizzolatto and Issa López. See the full list of directors, writers, and actors who played detectives, suspects, and other roles in each season. The first actor to be cast for True Detective was Matthew McConaughey, who acted as Detective Rustin "Rust" Cohle. McConaughey came to Pizzolatto's attention for his performance in the 2011 thriller film The Lincoln Lawyer, and was contracted before the series was commissioned by HBO. The first actor to be cast for True Detective was Matthew McConaughey, who acted as Detective Rustin "Rust" Cohle. McConaughey came to Pizzolatto's attention for his performance in the 2011 thriller film The Lincoln Lawyer, and was contracted before the series was commissioned by HBO. Framed as a nonlinear narrative, True Detective season one explores Cohle and Hart's recollection of their investigation of the murder of Dora Lange from 1995 to 2002.
