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
Darius Rucker: They Called Me Hootie
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 Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
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