Woody Harrelson
Biography
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is a European-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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Movies (44)
Animal Farm
as Boxer (voice)
2026
Ella McCay
as Eddie McCay
2025
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
as Merritt McKinney
2025
Kuleana
as Narrator (voice)
2025
The Electric State
as Mr. Peanut (voice)
2025
Last Breath
as Duncan Allcock
2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self
2025
Fly Me to the Moon
as Moe Berkus
2024
Suncoast
as Paul
2024
Common Ground
as Self
2023
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
as Self
2023
Champions
as Marcus
2023
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Executive Producer (Production)
2022
The Man from Toronto
as The Man from Toronto
2022
Triangle of Sadness
as The Captain
2022
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
as Self
2022
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
as Narrator (voice)
2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2021
Kate
as Varrick
2021
Kiss the Ground
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
The Men of Midway
as Self
2020
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
as Self
2020
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Archie Bunker
2019
Midway
as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
2019
Zombieland: Double Tap
as Tallahassee
2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
as Archie Bunker
2019
The Highwaymen
as Manny Gault
2019
Breakthrough
as Narrator (voice)
2019
Venom
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2018
The Origins of Ebbing
as Self
2018
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Tobias Beckett
2018
Shock and Awe
as Jonathan Landay
2017
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Bill Willoughby
2017
LBJ
as Lyndon B. Johnson
2017
The Glass Castle
as Rex Walls
2017
War for the Planet of the Apes
as The Colonel
2017
Wilson
as Wilson
2017
Lost in London
as Woody Harrelson
2017
The Edge of Seventeen
as Mr. Bruner
2016
The Duel
as Abraham Brant
2016
Now You See Me 2
as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
2016
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2016
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
as Self
2016
Triple 9
as Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
2016
