Woody Harrelson

Known for ActingBorn 1961-07-23 (age 65)Midland, Texas, USA

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Brothers

The Frame

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special

True Detective

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

E! True Hollywood Story

Curb Your Enthusiasm

No Country for Old Men

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

The Simpsons

Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

Kiss the Ground

Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim

Seven Pounds

Frasier

For Our Children

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

American Saint

Basketball: A Love Story

The Wonderful World of Disney

Now You See Me

The Thin Red Line

War for the Planet of the Apes

The Emmy Awards

Cheers

Zombieland

The Hunger Games

The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

The Edge of Seventeen

North Country

The Graham Norton Show

Midway

The Glass Castle

Groundswell

Hot Ones

Triangle of Sadness

How to Make Money Selling Drugs

The Kennedy Center Honors

Nanking

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Last Breath