Woody Harrelson

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1961-07-23

Place of Birth

Midland, Texas, USA

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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Acting History

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