Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 23, 1961
Place of Birth
Midland, Texas, USA
Credits
191 titles
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).
Known For
Filmography
Brothers
Woody Harrelson
Robert Richardson: The White Devil
Self
Full Phil
Philip Doom
Groundswell
Narrator (voice)
Animal Farm
Boxer (voice)
Ella McCay
Eddie McCay
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Merritt McKinney
Kuleana
Narrator (voice)
The Electric State
Mr. Peanut (voice)
Last Breath
Duncan Allcock
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Self
Girl from the North Country
Nick Laine
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
Champions
Marcus
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 - Narrator (voice)
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
Breakthrough
Narrator (voice)
Venom
Cletus Kasady / Carnage
Basketball: A Love Story
Self (archive footage)
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 (archive footage)
Wilson
Wilson
Lost in London
Woody Harrelson
The Edge of Seventeen
Mr. Bruner
The Duel
Abraham Brant