Woody Harrelson

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Woody Harrelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Self (Haymitch Abernathy)

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

Mickey Knox

Natural Born Killers

Self (Haymitch Abernathy)

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Self (Haymitch Abernathy)

Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

Big Boy Matson

The Hi-Lo Country

Sergeant William Schumann

Wag the Dog

Billy Hoyle

White Men Can't Jump

Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt

Stan Lloyd

After the Sunset

Ernie Luckman

A Scanner Darkly

Jason 'Woods' Valley

Scorched

David Murphy

Indecent Proposal

The Bartender

Bunraku

Vince Boudreau

Play It to the Bone

Charlie

Money Train

Narrator (voice)

Grass

Ray Pekurny

EDtv

Roy Munson

Kingpin

Jango

Management

Nick Laine

Girl from the North Country

The Captain

Triangle of Sadness

Ezra Turner

Seven Pounds

Roy

TransSiberian

Hank Gordon

Doc Hollywood

Carson Wells

No Country for Old Men

Harry Barber

Palmetto

Narrator (voice)

Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story

Sgt. William Keck

The Thin Red Line

Galaxia / Security Guard Gary

Anger Management

Dusty

A Prairie Home Companion

Kelly Ryan

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Carter Page III

The Walker

Raymond Barnell

The Big White

Monix

Semi-Pro

Self

Go Further

Bill White

North Country

Dale

Battle in Seattle

Host

Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special

Tony Stone

The Messenger

Arthur Poppington / Defendor

Defendor

Jack

Surfer, Dude

Charlie Frost

2012

Krushinski

Wildcats

Randall

Sleepwalking

Flynn

Welcome to Sarajevo

One Eyed Jack Faro

The Grand

Dr. Michael Reynolds

The Sunchaser

Lou the Lamb

Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme

Sailing

Bob Wilson

Nanking

Himself

Hempsters: Plant the Seed

Tallahassee

Zombieland

Pepper Lewis

The Cowboy Way

Haymitch Abernathy

The Hunger Games

Tommy Bollinger

Friends with Benefits

Marcus

Champions

Steve Schmidt

Game Change

Dustin

Cool Blue

Self

Common Ground

Dave Brown

Rampart

Merritt McKinney

Now You See Me

Host

Ethos

Self

Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim

Homeless Vietnam Veteran

Ted & Venus

Charlie Costello

Seven Psychopaths

Haymitch Abernathy

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Self

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days

Self

Raw for Life

Self

How to Make Money Selling Drugs

Self

The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique

Self

Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis

John Carr

Lips Like Sugar

Slater

Bay Coven

Haymitch Abernathy

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

Haymitch Abernathy

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

Self

The Outsider

Harlan DeGroat

Out of the Furnace

Duncan Allcock

Last Breath

Jake (voice)

Free Birds

Self

David Blaine: Real or Magic

Ella McCay

Paul

Suncoast

Merritt McKinney

Now You See Me 3

Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen

Triple 9

Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney

Now You See Me 2

Self

The Men of Midway

Self

Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission

Aaron Brown

Song for Someone

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

Abraham Brant

The Duel

Wilson

Wilson

Charlie Long

Killer Instinct

Lyndon B. Johnson

LBJ

Harris' Boss (uncredited)

L.A. Story

Self

Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon

Moe Berkus

Fly Me to the Moon

Mr. Bruner

The Edge of Seventeen

Self

Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows

Self

For Our Children

Self

Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short

Bill Willoughby

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Who Bombed Judi Bari?

Rex Walls

The Glass Castle

The Colonel

War for the Planet of the Apes

Woody Boyd

Mickey's 60th Birthday

Mr. Peanut (voice)

The Electric State

Tobias Beckett

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Woody Harrelson

Lost in London

Woody Harrelson

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Woody Harrelson (uncredited)

She's Having a Baby

Extra (uncredited)

Harper Valley P.T.A.

Taxi Driver

This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss"

Ground Zero Hero

I'll Do Anything

Man in Dodd's office

True Believer

Woody Harrelson

Welcome to Hollywood

Leland Powell

She Hate Me

Jonathan Landay

Shock and Awe

Manny Gault

The Highwaymen

Tallahassee

Zombieland: Double Tap

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

Midway

Self

Miloš Forman: Co tě nezabije…

Cletus Kasady / Carnage

Venom

Self

No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes

Narrator (voice)

Breakthrough

Cletus Kasady / Carnage

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Self / Luckman

One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'

Archie Bunker

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"

Self

The Origins of Ebbing

Fruitloops

Varrick

Kate

Self (Haymitch Abernathy)

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Archie Bunker

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"

Self

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

The Man From Toronto

The Man from Toronto

Self

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

Divo

Burma: It Can't Wait

Self

Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special

Narrator (voice)

Kiss the Ground

Felix Kersten

The Man with the Miraculous Hands

Self

American Saint

Woody Boyd

The Earth Day Special

Narrator (voice)

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Self

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

143

Gender

Male

Birthday

1961-07-23

Place of Birth

Midland, Texas, USA

Also Known As

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson