Woody Harrelson
- Acting
- July 23, 1961 · Midland, Texas, USA
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).
Known for
Filmography
- Brothers · Woody Harrelson, Executive producer
- Robert Richardson: The White Devil · Self
- Full Phil · Philip Doom
- Groundswell · Narrator (Voice)
- Animal Farm · Boxer (Voice), Executive producer
- Ella McCay · Eddie McCay
- Now You See Me: Now You Don't · Merritt McKinney
- Kuleana · Narrator (Voice)
- Last Breath · Duncan Allcock
- The Electric State · Mr. Peanut (Voice)
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music · Self
- Fly Me to the Moon · Moe Berkus
- Suncoast · Paul
- Common Ground · Self
- Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short · Self
- White House Plumbers · E. Howard Hunt, Executive producer
- Champions · Marcus, Executive producer
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse · Executive producer
- The Man from Toronto · The Man from Toronto
- Triangle of Sadness · The Captain
- Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon · Self
- The Freak Brothers · Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (Voice)
- Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story · Narrator (Voice)
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage · Cletus Kasady / Carnage
- Kate · Varrick
- Kiss the Ground · Self
- The Men of Midway · Self
- Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission · Self
- Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" · Archie Bunker
- Midway · Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
- Zombieland: Double Tap · Tallahassee
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" · Archie Bunker
- The Highwaymen · Manny Gault, Executive producer
- Breakthrough · Narrator (Voice)
- Venom · Cletus Kasady / Carnage
- Basketball: A Love Story · Self
- The Origins of Ebbing · Self
- Solo: A Star Wars Story · Tobias Beckett
- Shock and Awe · Jonathan Landay
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri · Willoughby
- LBJ · Lyndon B. Johnson
- The Glass Castle · Rex Walls
- War for the Planet of the Apes · The Colonel
- The Nineties · Self
- Wilson · Wilson
- Lost in London · Woody Harrelson, Producer
- The Edge of Seventeen · Mr. Bruner
- The Duel · Abraham Brant
- Now You See Me 2 · Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
- Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 · Self
- Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows · Self
- Triple 9 · Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 · Haymitch Abernathy
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Hot Ones · Self
- The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 · Self
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 · Haymitch Abernathy
- Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire · Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- True Detective · Martin Hart, Executive producer
- David Blaine: Real or Magic · Self
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire · Haymitch Abernathy
- Out of the Furnace · Harlan DeGroat
- Free Birds · Jake (Voice)
- Now You See Me · Merritt McKinney
- The Frame · Haymitch Abernathy
- Seven Psychopaths · Charlie Costello
- How to Make Money Selling Drugs · Self
- The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games · Self
- The Hunger Games · Haymitch Abernathy
- Who Bombed Judi Bari? · Self
- Game Change · Steve Schmidt
- Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis · Self
- Rampart · Dave Brown
- Friends with Benefits · Tommy Bollinger
- The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique · Self
- Ethos · Host
- Bunraku · The Bartender
- 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic · Self