Woody Harrelson
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1961-07-23 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Midland, Texas, USA
Woody Harrelson
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).
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Known For
Acting
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
as Self (archive footage)
The Man with the Miraculous Hands
as Felix Kersten
Lips Like Sugar
as John Carr
Girl from the North Country
as Nick Laine
(2025)
The Electric State
as Mr. Peanut (voice)
(2025)
Last Breath
as Duncan Allcock
(2025)
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
as Merritt McKinney
(2025)
(2025)
Animal Farm
as Boxer (voice)
(2025)
(2024)
Fly Me to the Moon
as Moe Berkus
(2024)
Suncoast
as Paul
(2023)
Champions
as Marcus
(2023)
Common Ground
as Self
(2023)
(2022)
Triangle of Sadness
as The Captain
(2022)
The Man from Toronto
as The Man From Toronto
(2022)
Breakthrough
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
(2021)
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
(2021)
Kate
as Varrick
(2021)
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
as Narrator (voice)
(2020)
Kiss the Ground
as Narrator (voice)
(2020)
(2020)
The Men of Midway
as Self
(2019)
Zombieland: Double Tap
as Tallahassee
(2019)
Midway
as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
(2019)
The Highwaymen
as Manny Gault
(2019)
(2019)
(2018)
Venom
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
(2018)
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Tobias Beckett
(2018)
The Origins of Ebbing
as Self
(2017)
War for the Planet of the Apes
as The Colonel
(2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Bill Willoughby
(2017)
The Glass Castle
as Rex Walls
(2017)
Wilson
as Wilson
(2017)
Shock and Awe
as Jonathan Landay
(2017)
Lost in London
as Woody Harrelson
(2017)
LBJ
as Lyndon B. Johnson
(2016)
Now You See Me 2
as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
(2016)
Triple 9
as Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
(2016)
The Edge of Seventeen
as Mr. Bruner
(2016)
The Duel
as Abraham Brant
(2016)
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
(2016)
(2015)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Haymitch Abernathy
(2015)
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
(2014)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
as Haymitch Abernathy
(2014)
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
(2013)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Haymitch Abernathy
(2013)
Now You See Me
as Merritt McKinney
(2013)
Free Birds
as Jake (voice)
(2013)
Out of the Furnace
as Harlan DeGroat
(2013)
David Blaine: Real or Magic
as Self
(2012)
The Hunger Games
as Haymitch Abernathy
(2012)
Seven Psychopaths
as Charlie Costello
(2012)
Game Change
as Steve Schmidt
(2012)
(2012)
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
(2012)
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2011)
Friends with Benefits
as Tommy Bollinger
(2011)
Ethos
as Host
(2011)
Rampart
as Dave Brown
(2011)
(2011)
(2010)
Bunraku
as The Bartender
(2010)
(2010)
(2009)
2012
as Charlie Frost
(2009)
Zombieland
as Tallahassee
(2009)
Defendor
as Arthur Poppington / Defendor
(2009)
The Messenger
as Tony Stone
(2009)
Management
as Jango
(2009)
(2009)
(2008)
Seven Pounds
as Ezra Turner
(2008)
Semi-Pro
as Monix
(2008)
TransSiberian
as Roy
(2008)
Surfer, Dude
as Jack
(2008)
Sleepwalking
as Randall
(2008)
(2008)
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
as Himself
(2008)
Burma: It Can't Wait
as Divo
(2007)
No Country for Old Men
as Carson Wells
(2007)
The Grand
as One Eyed Jack Faro
(2007)
Battle in Seattle
as Dale
(2007)
The Walker
as Carter Page III
(2007)
Nanking
as Bob Wilson
(2007)
Raw for Life
as Self
(2006)
A Scanner Darkly
as Ernie Luckman
(2006)
A Prairie Home Companion
as Dusty
(2006)
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
as Self / Luckman
(2006)
(2005)
North Country
as Bill White
(2005)
The Big White
as Raymond Barnell
(2005)
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
as Kelly Ryan
(2005)
The Outsider
as Self
(2004)
After the Sunset
as Stan Lloyd
(2004)
She Hate Me
as Leland Powell
(2004)
(2003)
Anger Management
as Galaxia / Security Guard Gary
(2003)
Scorched
as Jason 'Woods' Valley
(2003)
(2003)
Go Further
as Self
(2003)
This So-Called Disaster
as Taxi Driver
(2002)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Narrator (voice)
(2001)
American Saint
as Self
(2000)
The Directors: Milos Forman
as Self
(1999)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
as Woody Harrelson
(1999)
EDtv
as Ray Pekurny
(1999)
Play It to the Bone
as Vince Boudreau
(1999)
Grass
as Narrator (voice)
(1998)
The Thin Red Line
as Sgt. William Keck
(1998)
Palmetto
as Harry Barber
(1998)
Welcome to Hollywood
as Woody Harrelson
(1998)
The Hi-Lo Country
as Big Boy Matson
(1997)
Wag the Dog
as Sergeant William Schumann
(1997)
Welcome to Sarajevo
as Flynn
(1996)
Kingpin
as Roy Munson
(1996)
The People vs. Larry Flynt
as Larry Flynt
(1996)
The Sunchaser
as Dr. Michael Reynolds
(1995)
Money Train
as Charlie
(1994)
Natural Born Killers
as Mickey Knox
(1994)
The Cowboy Way
as Pepper Lewis
(1994)
I'll Do Anything
as Ground Zero Hero
(1993)
Indecent Proposal
as David Murphy
(1993)
For Our Children
as Self
(1992)
White Men Can't Jump
as Billy Hoyle
(1991)
Doc Hollywood
as Hank Gordon
(1991)
L.A. Story
as Harris' Boss (uncredited)
(1991)
Ted & Venus
as Homeless Vietnam Veteran
(1990)
The Earth Day Special
as Woody Boyd
(1990)
Cool Blue
as Dustin
(1990)
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
as Lou the Lamb
(1990)
(1990)
(1989)
True Believer
as Man in Dodd's office
(1988)
She's Having a Baby
as Woody Harrelson (uncredited)
(1988)
Mickey's 60th Birthday
as Woody Boyd
(1988)
Killer Instinct
as Charlie Long
(1987)
Bay Coven
as Slater
(1987)
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
as Self
(1986)
Wildcats
as Krushinski
(1978)
Harper Valley P.T.A.
as Extra (uncredited)
Crew
Lips Like Sugar
Producer
Sailing
Producer
(2025)
Animal Farm
Executive Producer
(2023)
Champions
Executive Producer
(2022)
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Executive Producer
(2019)
The Highwaymen
Executive Producer
(2017)
Lost in London
Director, Writer, Producer
(1992)
The Panama Deception
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