Woody Harrelson
Acting
- Born:
- 1961-07-23
- Place of birth:
- 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
Robert Richardson: The White Devil
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Brothers
Full Phil
Groundswell
Animal Farm
Ella McCay
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Kuleana
Last Breath
The Electric State
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Fly Me to the Moon
Suncoast
Common Ground
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
White House Plumbers
Champions
The Man from Toronto
Triangle of Sadness
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
The Freak Brothers
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Kate
Kiss the Ground
The Men of Midway
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Midway
Zombieland: Double Tap
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
The Highwaymen
Breakthrough
Venom
Basketball: A Love Story
The Origins of Ebbing
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Shock and Awe
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
LBJ
The Glass Castle
War for the Planet of the Apes
The Nineties
Wilson
Lost in London
The Edge of Seventeen
The Duel
Now You See Me 2
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
Triple 9
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Hot Ones
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Late Night with Seth Meyers
True Detective
David Blaine: Real or Magic
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Out of the Furnace
Free Birds
Now You See Me
The Frame
Seven Psychopaths
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
The Hunger Games
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
Game Change
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
Rampart
Friends with Benefits
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique
Ethos
Bunraku
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
The Messenger
2012
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Zombieland
Defendor
Management
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
Seven Pounds
The Hempire Strikes Back
Surfer, Dude
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
Burma: It Can't Wait
Sleepwalking
Behind the Scenes of 'No Country for Old Men': An Incredibly Unauthorized Documentary
Semi-Pro
TransSiberian
No Country for Old Men
Raw for Life
Battle in Seattle
The Grand
The Graham Norton Show
The Walker
Nanking
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
A Scanner Darkly
A Prairie Home Companion
The Outsider
The Big White
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
North Country
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
After the Sunset
She Hate Me
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Celebrities Uncensored
Scorched
Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
Anger Management
Go Further
Real Time with Bill Maher
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
This So-Called Disaster
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
American Saint
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Directors: Milos Forman
Play It to the Bone
Grass
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
EDtv
Mark Twain Prize
The Hi-Lo Country
The Thin Red Line
Will & Grace
Palmetto
Wag the Dog
Welcome to Sarajevo
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Spin City
E! True Hollywood Story
The Daily Show
Kingpin
The Sunchaser
Money Train
Natural Born Killers
The Cowboy Way
I'll Do Anything
Frasier
Indecent Proposal
For Our Children
HBO First Look
MTV Movie & TV Awards
White Men Can't Jump
Ted & Venus
Doc Hollywood
L.A. Story
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
The Earth Day Special
Cool Blue
The Simpsons
True Believer
Killer Instinct
Mickey's 60th Birthday
Dear John
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
She's Having a Baby
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
Bay Coven
Wildcats
Cheers
The Kennedy Center Honors
Harper Valley P.T.A.
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Oscars
The Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Lips Like Sugar
Fruitloops
The Man with the Miraculous Hands
The Cackling of the Dodos
Summer of Roses