Birthday: Jul 23, 1961
Place of Birth: Midland, Texas, USA

Woody Harrelson

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor and playwright. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Harrelson 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 a total of five nominations. He went on to receive three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), and Best Supporting Actor for both The Messenger (2009) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). Harrelson was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Marty Hart in the crime anthology series True Detective (2014).

Filmography

Movie	Cast	Year
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games	Self (Haymitch Abernathy)	2012
Natural Born Killers	Mickey Knox	1994
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Self (Haymitch Abernathy)	2014
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2	Self (Haymitch Abernathy)	2016
The Hi-Lo Country	Big Boy Matson	1998
Wag the Dog	Sergeant William Schumann	1997
White Men Can't Jump	Billy Hoyle	1992
The People vs. Larry Flynt	Larry Flynt	1996
After the Sunset	Stan Lloyd	2004
A Scanner Darkly	Ernie Luckman	2006
Scorched	Jason 'Woods' Valley	2003
Indecent Proposal	David Murphy	1993
Bunraku	The Bartender	2010
Play It to the Bone	Vince Boudreau	1999
Money Train	Charlie	1995
Grass	Narrator (voice)	1999
EDtv	Ray Pekurny	1999
Kingpin	Roy Munson	1996
Management	Jango	2009
Girl from the North Country	Nick Laine	1970
Triangle of Sadness	The Captain	2022
Seven Pounds	Ezra Turner	2008
TransSiberian	Roy	2008
Doc Hollywood	Hank Gordon	1991
No Country for Old Men	Carson Wells	2007
Palmetto	Harry Barber	1998
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story	Narrator (voice)	2021
The Thin Red Line	Sgt. William Keck	1998
Anger Management	Galaxia / Security Guard Gary	2003
A Prairie Home Companion	Dusty	2006
The Walker	Carter Page III	2007
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio	Kelly Ryan	2005
The Big White	Raymond Barnell	2005
Semi-Pro	Monix	2008
Go Further	Self	2003
North Country	Bill White	2005
Battle in Seattle	Dale	2007
Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special	Host	2003
The Messenger	Tony Stone	2009
Defendor	Arthur Poppington / Defendor	2009
Surfer, Dude	Jack	2008
2012	Charlie Frost	2009
Wildcats	Krushinski	1986
Sleepwalking	Randall	2008
Welcome to Sarajevo	Flynn	1997
The Grand	One Eyed Jack Faro	2007
The Sunchaser	Dr. Michael Reynolds	1996
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme	Lou the Lamb	1990
Sailing		1970
Nanking	Bob Wilson	2007
Hempsters: Plant the Seed	Himself	2008
Zombieland	Tallahassee	2009
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie	Hank Gordon (archive footage) (uncredited)	2023
The Cowboy Way	Pepper Lewis	1994
The Hunger Games	Haymitch Abernathy	2012
Friends with Benefits	Tommy Bollinger	2011
Champions	Marcus	2023
Game Change	Steve Schmidt	2012
Cool Blue	Dustin	1990
Common Ground	Self	2023
Rampart	Dave Brown	2011
Now You See Me	Merritt McKinney	2013
Ethos	Host	2011
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim	Self	1987
Ted & Venus	Homeless Vietnam Veteran	1991
Seven Psychopaths	Charlie Costello	2012
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Haymitch Abernathy	2013
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days	Self	2009
Raw for Life	Self	2007
How to Make Money Selling Drugs	Self	2012
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique	Self	2011
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis	Self	2011
Lips Like Sugar	John Carr	1970
Bay Coven	Slater	1987
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	Haymitch Abernathy	2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	Haymitch Abernathy	2015
The Outsider	Self	2005
Out of the Furnace	Harlan DeGroat	2013
Last Breath	Duncan Allcock	2025
Free Birds	Jake (voice)	2013
David Blaine: Real or Magic	Self	2013
Ella McCay		1970
Suncoast	Paul	2024
Now You See Me 3	Merritt McKinney	2025
Triple 9	Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen	2016
Now You See Me 2	Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney	2016
The Men of Midway	Self	2020
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission	Self	2020
Song for Someone	Aaron Brown	2015
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?		1990
The Duel	Abraham Brant	2016
Wilson	Wilson	2017
Killer Instinct	Charlie Long	1988
LBJ	Lyndon B. Johnson	2017
L.A. Story	Harris' Boss (uncredited)	1991
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon	Self	2022
Fly Me to the Moon	Moe Berkus	2024
The Edge of Seventeen	Mr. Bruner	2016
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows	Self	2016
For Our Children	Self	1993
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short	Self	2023
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Bill Willoughby	2017
Who Bombed Judi Bari?	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	2012
The Glass Castle	Rex Walls	2017
War for the Planet of the Apes	The Colonel	2017
Mickey's 60th Birthday	Woody Boyd	1988
The Electric State	Mr. Peanut (voice)	2025
Solo: A Star Wars Story	Tobias Beckett	2018
Lost in London	Woody Harrelson	2017
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	Woody Harrelson	1999
I'll Do Anything	Ground Zero Hero	1994
Harper Valley P.T.A.	Extra (uncredited)	1978
She's Having a Baby	Woody Harrelson (uncredited)	1988
This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss"	Taxi Driver	2003
True Believer	Man in Dodd's office	1989
Welcome to Hollywood	Woody Harrelson	1998
She Hate Me	Leland Powell	2004
Shock and Awe	Jonathan Landay	2018
Free Jimmy	Roy Arnie (voice)	2006
The Highwaymen	Manny Gault	2019
Zombieland: Double Tap	Tallahassee	2019
Midway	Admiral Chester W. Nimitz	2019
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…	Self	2009
Venom	Cletus Kasady / Carnage	2018
No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes	Self	2008
Breakthrough	Narrator (voice)	2022
Venom: Let There Be Carnage	Cletus Kasady / Carnage	2021
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'	Self / Luckman	2006
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"	Archie Bunker	2019
The Origins of Ebbing	Self	2018
Fruitloops		1970
Kate	Varrick	2021
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1	Self (Haymitch Abernathy)	2015
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"	Archie Bunker	2019
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic	Self	2010
The Man from Toronto	The Man From Toronto	2022
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective	Self	2010
Burma: It Can't Wait	Divo	2008
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special	Self	1990
Kiss the Ground	Narrator (voice)	2020
The Man with the Miraculous Hands	Felix Kersten	1970
American Saint	Self	2001
The Earth Day Special	Woody Boyd	1990
Series	Cast	Year
Cheers	Woody Boyd	1982
The Simpsons	Woody Boyd (voice)	1989
Jimmy Kimmel Live!		2003
The Daily Show	Self	1996
LIVE with Kelly and Mark		1988
Spin City	Tommy Dugan	1996
E! True Hollywood Story		1996
Frasier	Woody Boyd	1993
Will & Grace	Nathan	1998
Celebrities Uncensored	Self	2003
Basketball: A Love Story	Self (archive footage)	2018
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert		2015
True Detective	Martin Hart	2014
The Freak Brothers	Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice)	2021
Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	2014
Curb Your Enthusiasm	Woody Harrelson	2000
MTV Movie & TV Awards	Self / Presenter	1992
The Graham Norton Show	Self	2007
The Nineties	Self (archive footage)	2017
Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	1975
The Frame	Haymitch Abernathy	2013
Honest Trailers	Haymitch Abernathy (archive footage)	2012
Dear John	Richard	1988
Brother from Another Mother	Self	1970
Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	1975
White House Plumbers	E. Howard Hunt	2023
The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	2003
Real Time with Bill Maher	Self	2003
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	1962
HBO First Look		1992
The Oscars	Self	1953

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