Woody Harrelson
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Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson 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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Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson 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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The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Oscars
E! True Hollywood Story
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Real Time with Bill Maher
Will & Grace
Frasier
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
MTV Movie & TV Awards
The Simpsons
The Graham Norton Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
HBO First Look
The Daily Show
Celebrities Uncensored
Dear John
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
She's Having a Baby
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Wildcats
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
Anger Management
True Detective
The Thin Red Line
Venom
The Electric State
Cheers
The Outsider
2012
Triple 9
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Friends with Benefits
A Prairie Home Companion
Surfer, Dude
No Country for Old Men
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Triangle of Sadness
Wag the Dog
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Bunraku
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Now You See Me 2
Suncoast
Fly Me to the Moon
Midway
Seven Pounds
Kate
Now You See Me
Out of the Furnace
Indecent Proposal
After the Sunset
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Money Train
Zombieland
The Highwaymen
The Messenger
The Man from Toronto
Brothers
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Glass Castle
The Edge of Seventeen
War for the Planet of the Apes
Zombieland: Double Tap
The Cowboy Way
White House Plumbers
Last Breath
Champions
Kingpin
Natural Born Killers
Free Jimmy
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