
Woody Harrelson
9 FOLLOWERS • 86 CREDITS • JUL 23, 1961 • 64
Biography
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson 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).
Known For

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Saturday Night Live

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Oscars

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

E! True Hollywood Story

Real Time with Bill Maher

Will & Grace

Frasier

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Honest Trailers

MTV Movie & TV Awards

The Simpsons

The Graham Norton Show

Curb Your Enthusiasm

HBO First Look

The Daily Show

Dear John

Celebrities Uncensored

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

She's Having a Baby

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Wildcats

Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special

Anger Management

True Detective

The Thin Red Line

Cheers

Venom

The Electric State

2012

The Outsider

A Prairie Home Companion

Triple 9

Friends with Benefits

Now You See Me: Now You Don't

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Surfer, Dude

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

Triangle of Sadness

The Hunger Games

No Country for Old Men

Wag the Dog

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

After the Sunset

Now You See Me 2

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Out of the Furnace

Suncoast

Now You See Me

Fly Me to the Moon

Indecent Proposal

Midway

Seven Pounds

Bunraku

Kate

Money Train

The Messenger

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Highwaymen

War for the Planet of the Apes

The Glass Castle

Brothers

The Edge of Seventeen

The Man from Toronto

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story

Zombieland

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Zombieland: Double Tap

Natural Born Killers

Champions

The Cowboy Way

Kingpin

White House Plumbers

Free Jimmy

Last Breath
Production Credits
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