
Woody Harrelson
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Biography
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).
Known For

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
Production Credits
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