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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).
Known For
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Saturday Night Live
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
The Electric State
Cheers
Venom
2012
Triangle of Sadness
The Outsider
A Prairie Home Companion
Friends with Benefits
Triple 9
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Surfer, Dude
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
No Country for Old Men
Wag the Dog
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Out of the Furnace
Indecent Proposal
Suncoast
Seven Pounds
Kate
After the Sunset
Now You See Me 2
Bunraku
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Midway
Fly Me to the Moon
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Money Train
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
Now You See Me
The Highwaymen
The Glass Castle
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
War for the Planet of the Apes
The Edge of Seventeen
Brothers
Zombieland
The Man from Toronto
The Messenger
Zombieland: Double Tap
The Cowboy Way
White House Plumbers
Free Jimmy
Champions
Natural Born Killers
Kingpin
Last Breath
Production Credits
White House Plumbers
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
True Detective
The Highwaymen
Champions
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