Woody Harrelson
Acting
Biography
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor. He first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from five nominations. Harrelson received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Best Supporting Actor for The Messenger (2009) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). Other notable films include White Men Can't Jump(1992), Natural Born Killers (1994), The Thin Red Line (1998), No Country for Old Men (2007), Seven Pounds (2008), Zombieland (2009), Seven Psychopaths (2012), Now You See Me (2013), The Edge of Seventeen (2016), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), and Triangle of Sadness (2022). He also played Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015). Harrelson received further Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayal of Steve Schmidt in the HBO film Game Change (2012) and a detective in the HBO crime anthology series True Detective (2014). He also portrayed E. Howard Hunt in the HBO political limited series White House Plumbers (2023).
Born: July 23, 1961
Place of Birth: Midland, Texas, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Eddie McCay
as Boxer (voice)
as Merritt McKinney
as Mr. Peanut (voice)
as Duncan Allcock
as Nick Laine
as Moe Berkus
as Paul
as Self
as E. Howard Hunt
as Marcus
as The Man from Toronto
as The Captain
as Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
as Varrick
as Narrator (voice)
as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
as Tallahassee
as Self
as Manny Gault
as Narrator (voice)
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Tobias Beckett
as Jonathan Landay
as Bill Willoughby
as Lyndon B. Johnson
as Rex Walls
as The Colonel
as Self (archive footage)
as Wilson
as Woody Harrelson
as Mr. Bruner
as Abraham Brant
as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
as Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
as Haymitch Abernathy
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
as Haymitch Abernathy
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
as Self
as Martin Hart
as Self
as Haymitch Abernathy
as Harlan DeGroat
as Jake (voice)
as Merritt McKinney
as Haymitch Abernathy
as Charlie Costello
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
as Haymitch Abernathy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Steve Schmidt
as Dave Brown
as Tommy Bollinger
as Host
as The Bartender
as Tony Stone
as Charlie Frost
as Tallahassee
as Arthur Poppington / Defendor
as Jango
as Ezra Turner
as Jack
as Himself
as Randall
as Monix
as Roy
as Carson Wells
as Self
as Dale
as One Eyed Jack Faro
as Self
as Carter Page III
as Bob Wilson
as Self / Luckman
as Ernie Luckman
as Dusty
as Self
as Raymond Barnell
as Kelly Ryan
as Bill White
as Stan Lloyd
as Leland Powell
as Self
as Self
as Jason 'Woods' Valley
as Self - Host
as Galaxia / Security Guard Gary
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Taxi Driver
as Self
as Woody Harrelson
as Woody Harrelson
as Self
as Vince Boudreau
as Narrator (voice)
as Woody Harrelson
as Ray Pekurny
as Big Boy Matson
as Sgt. William Keck
as Nathan
as Harry Barber
as Sergeant William Schumann
as Flynn
as Larry Flynt
as Tommy Dugan
as Self
as Roy Munson
as Dr. Michael Reynolds
as Charlie
as Mickey Knox
as Pepper Lewis
as Ground Zero Hero
as Woody Boyd
as David Murphy
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Billy Hoyle
as Homeless Vietnam Veteran
as Hank Gordon
as Harris' Boss (uncredited)
as Lou the Lamb
as Woody Boyd
as Dustin
as Woody Boyd (voice)
as Man in Dodd's office
as Charlie Long
as Woody Boyd
as Richard
as Self
as Woody Harrelson (uncredited)
as Self
as Slater
as Krushinski
as Woody Boyd
as Extra (uncredited)
as Self - Host
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
as Self
as Self
as John Carr