Acting
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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Also known as | Woodrow Tracy Harrelson |
Popular as | Acting |
Gender | MALE |
Birthday | July 23, 1961 (64 years old) |
Year | Movie & Role |
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2016 | Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 as Self (Haymitch Abernathy) |
2014 | Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self (Haymitch Abernathy) |
2012 | The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self (Haymitch Abernathy) |
2010 | Bunraku as The Bartender |
2009 | Management as Jango |
2006 | A Scanner Darkly as Ernie Luckman |
2004 | After the Sunset as Stan Lloyd |
2003 | Scorched as Jason 'Woods' Valley |
1999 | Play It to the Bone as Vince Boudreau |
1999 | Grass as Narrator (voice) |
1999 | EDtv as Ray Pekurny |
1998 | The Hi-Lo Country as Big Boy Matson |
1997 | Wag the Dog as Sergeant William Schumann |
1996 | The People vs. Larry Flynt as Larry Flynt |
1996 | Kingpin as Roy Munson |
1995 | Money Train as Charlie |
1994 | Natural Born Killers as Mickey Knox |
1993 | Indecent Proposal as David Murphy |
1992 | White Men Can't Jump as Billy Hoyle |
Girl from the North Country as Nick Laine |