
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).
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Known For
Acting History
2026
Animal Farm as Boxer (voice)
2025Criminology as Richard Moore
2025Ella McCay as Eddie McCay
2025Now You See Me: Now You Don't as Merritt McKinney
2025Kuleana as Narrator (voice)
2025The Electric State as Mr. Peanut (voice)
2025Last Breath as Duncan Allcock
2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
2024Fly Me to the Moon as Moe Berkus
2024Suncoast as Paul
2023Common Ground as Self
2023Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short as Self
2023White House Plumbers as E. Howard Hunt
2023Champions as Marcus
2022The Man from Toronto as The Man from Toronto
2022Triangle of Sadness as The Captain
2022Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon as Self
2021The Freak Brothers as Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice)
2021Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story as Narrator (voice)
2021Venom: Let There Be Carnage as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2021Kate as Varrick
2020Kiss the Ground as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020The Men of Midway as Self
2020Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission as Self
2019Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" as Archie Bunker
2019Midway as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
2019Zombieland: Double Tap as Tallahassee
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" as Archie Bunker
2019The Highwaymen as Manny Gault
2019Breakthrough as Narrator (voice)
2018Venom as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2018Basketball: A Love Story as Self (archive footage)
2018The Origins of Ebbing as Self
2018Solo: A Star Wars Story as Tobias Beckett
2017Shock and Awe as Jonathan Landay
2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Bill Willoughby
2017LBJ as Lyndon B. Johnson
2017The Glass Castle as Rex Walls
2017War for the Planet of the Apes as The Colonel
2017The Nineties as Self (archive footage)
2017Wilson as Wilson
2017Lost in London as Woody Harrelson
2016The Edge of Seventeen as Mr. Bruner
2016The Duel as Abraham Brant
2016Now You See Me 2 as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
2016Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2016Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows as Self
2016Triple 9 as Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Haymitch Abernathy
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Hot Ones as Self
2015The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
2014The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Haymitch Abernathy
2014Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014True Detective as Martin Hart
2013David Blaine: Real or Magic as Self
2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Haymitch Abernathy
2013Out of the Furnace as Harlan DeGroat
2013Free Birds as Jake (voice)
2013Now You See Me as Merritt McKinney
2013The Frame as Haymitch Abernathy
2012Seven Psychopaths as Charlie Costello
2012How to Make Money Selling Drugs as Self
2012The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
2012The Hunger Games as Haymitch Abernathy
2012Who Bombed Judi Bari? as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012Game Change as Steve Schmidt
2011Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis as Self
2011Rampart as Dave Brown
2011Friends with Benefits as Tommy Bollinger
2011The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique as Self
2011Ethos as Host
2010Bunraku as The Bartender
20102012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic as Self
2010The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective as Self
2009The Messenger as Tony Stone
20092012 as Charlie Frost
2009Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
2009Zombieland as Tallahassee
2009Defendor as Arthur Poppington / Defendor
2009Management as Jango
2009Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days as Self
2008Seven Pounds as Ezra Turner
2008Surfer, Dude as Jack
2008Hempsters: Plant the Seed as Himself
2008Burma: It Can't Wait as Divo
2008Sleepwalking as Randall
2008No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes as Self
2008Semi-Pro as Monix
2008TransSiberian as Roy
2007No Country for Old Men as Carson Wells
2007Raw for Life as Self
2007Battle in Seattle as Dale
2007The Grand as One Eyed Jack Faro
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007The Walker as Carter Page III
2007Nanking as Bob Wilson
2006One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly' as Self / Luckman
2006The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales as Self
2006A Scanner Darkly as Ernie Luckman
2006A Prairie Home Companion as Dusty
2005The Outsider as Self
2005The Big White as Raymond Barnell
2005The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio as Kelly Ryan
2005North Country as Bill White
2004Linklater: St. Richard of Austin as Self
2004After the Sunset as Stan Lloyd
2004She Hate Me as Leland Powell
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003Celebrities Uncensored as Self
2003Scorched as Jason 'Woods' Valley
2003Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special as Self - Host
2003Anger Management as Galaxia / Security Guard Gary
2003Go Further as Self
2003Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2003This So-Called Disaster as Taxi Driver
2002Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film as Narrator (voice)
2001American Saint as Self
2000Welcome to Hollywood as Woody Harrelson
2000Curb Your Enthusiasm as Woody Harrelson
2000The Directors: Milos Forman as Self
1999Play It to the Bone as Vince Boudreau
1999Grass as Narrator (voice)
1999Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me as Woody Harrelson
1999EDtv as Ray Pekurny
1998The Hi-Lo Country as Big Boy Matson
1998The Thin Red Line as Sgt. William Keck
1998Will & Grace as Nathan
1998Palmetto as Harry Barber
1997Wag the Dog as Sergeant William Schumann
1997Welcome to Sarajevo as Flynn
1996The People vs. Larry Flynt as Larry Flynt
1996Spin City as Tommy Dugan
1996E! True Hollywood Story
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996Kingpin as Roy Munson
1996The Sunchaser as Dr. Michael Reynolds
1995Money Train as Charlie
1994Natural Born Killers as Mickey Knox
1994The Cowboy Way as Pepper Lewis
1994I'll Do Anything as Ground Zero Hero
1993Frasier as Woody Boyd
1993Indecent Proposal as David Murphy
1993For Our Children as Self
1992HBO First Look
1992MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self - Presenter
1992White Men Can't Jump as Billy Hoyle
1991Ted & Venus as Homeless Vietnam Veteran
1991Doc Hollywood as Hank Gordon
1991L.A. Story as Harris' Boss (uncredited)
1990The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special as Self
1990Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme as Lou the Lamb
1990The Earth Day Special as Woody Boyd
1990Cool Blue as Dustin
1989The Simpsons as Woody Boyd (voice)
1989True Believer as Man in Dodd's office
1988Killer Instinct as Charlie Long
1988Mickey's 60th Birthday as Woody Boyd
1988Dear John as Richard
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self
1988She's Having a Baby as Woody Harrelson (uncredited)
1987Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim as Self
1987Bay Coven as Slater
1986Wildcats as Krushinski
1982Cheers as Woody Boyd
1978Harper Valley P.T.A. as Extra (uncredited)
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975Saturday Night Live as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1953The Oscars as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
—The Man with the Miraculous Hands as Felix Kersten
—Girl from the North Country as Nick Laine
—Lips Like Sugar as John Carr
—Zombieland 3 as Tallahassee
—Brothers as Woody Harrelson
—Sailing
—Full Phil as Philip Doom
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