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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Gender
Male
Birthday
1961-07-23
Place of birth
Midland, Texas, USA
Natural Born Killers
1994
7.06
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
6.20
Wag the Dog
1997
6.96
White Men Can't Jump
1992
6.63
The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996
6.97
After the Sunset
2004
6.20
A Scanner Darkly
2006
6.80
Scorched
2003
5.52
Indecent Proposal
1993
6.38
Bunraku
2010
5.86
Play It to the Bone
1999
5.60
Money Train
1995
5.85
Grass
1999
6.50
EDtv
1999
5.96
Kingpin
1996
6.50
Management
2009
5.38
Triangle of Sadness
2022
7.06
Seven Pounds
2008
7.60
TransSiberian
2008
6.40
Doc Hollywood
1991
6.40
No Country for Old Men
2007
7.94
Palmetto
1998
5.90
The Thin Red Line
1998
7.45
Anger Management
2003
6.15
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
6.30
The Walker
2007
5.30
The Big White
2005
6.20
Semi-Pro
2008
5.63
Go Further
2003
6.00
North Country
2005
7.20
Battle in Seattle
2007
6.30
The Messenger
2009
6.74
Defendor
2009
6.39
Surfer, Dude
2008
4.60
2012
2009
5.85
Wildcats
1986
6.20
Sleepwalking
2008
6.07
Welcome to Sarajevo
1997
6.40
The Grand
2007
5.96
The Sunchaser
1996
6.20
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
1990
4.80
Sailing
0.00
Nanking
2007
7.20
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
2008
5.20
Zombieland
2009
7.26
The Cowboy Way
1994
5.70
The Hunger Games
2012
7.21
Friends with Benefits
2011
6.66
Champions
2023
6.72
Game Change
2012
6.90
Cool Blue
1990
4.30
Common Ground
2023
7.80
Rampart
2011
5.46
Now You See Me
2013
7.33
Ethos
2011
7.07
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
1987
0.00
Ted & Venus
1991
4.71
Seven Psychopaths
2012
6.82
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
7.40
Raw for Life
2007
0.00
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
2012
7.08
Lips Like Sugar
0.00
Bay Coven
1987
4.20
The Outsider
2005
6.20
Out of the Furnace
2013
6.60
Last Breath
2025
6.88
Free Birds
2013
5.88
David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013
6.68
Ella McCay
2025
0.00
Suncoast
2024
6.72
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
0.00
Triple 9
2016
5.98
Now You See Me 2
2016
6.82
The Men of Midway
2020
0.00
Song for Someone
2015
0.00
The Duel
2016
5.40
Wilson
2017
5.99
Killer Instinct
1988
6.50
LBJ
2017
6.40
L.A. Story
1991
6.48
Fly Me to the Moon
2024
6.84
The Edge of Seventeen
2016
7.16
For Our Children
1993
7.00
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
2012
0.00
The Glass Castle
2017
7.14
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017
7.21
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988
6.80
The Electric State
2025
6.58
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018
6.56
Lost in London
2017
5.92
Harper Valley P.T.A.
1978
7.10
She's Having a Baby
1988
5.90
I'll Do Anything
1994
5.60
This So-Called Disaster
2003
4.20
True Believer
1989
6.16
Welcome to Hollywood
1998
3.90
She Hate Me
2004
5.10
Shock and Awe
2017
6.40
The Highwaymen
2019
6.75
Zombieland: Double Tap
2019
6.92
Midway
2019
7.12
Venom
2018
6.83
Breakthrough
2022
0.00
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021
6.78
The Origins of Ebbing
2018
6.00
Fruitloops
0.00
Kate
2021
6.64
The Man from Toronto
2022
6.39
Burma: It Can't Wait
2008
0.00
Kiss the Ground
2020
7.80
American Saint
2001
6.00
The Earth Day Special
1990
8.00
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
0.00
Animal Farm
2025
0.00