Woody Harrelson
Award-winning American actor celebrated for iconic roles across television, film, and prestige drama spanning four decades.
Woody Harrelson - Personal Information
- Name: Woody Harrelson
- Date of Birth: July 23, 1961
- Place of Birth: Midland, Texas, USA
- Gender: Male
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Executive Producer, Producer, Writer, Director, Thanks
Biography
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) 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).
Selected Filmography
A look at Woody Harrelson's most recent screen appearances across film and television.
- Animal Farm (2026) as Boxer (voice)
- Ella McCay (2025) as Eddie McCay
- Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) as Merritt McKinney
- Kuleana (2025) as Narrator (voice)
- The Electric State (2025) as Mr. Peanut (voice)
- Last Breath (2025) as Duncan Allcock
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025) as Self
- Fly Me to the Moon (2024) as Moe Berkus
- Suncoast (2024) as Paul
- Common Ground (2023) as Self
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