Woody Harrelson

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).

Filmography (180 Appearances)

Animal Farm

Upcoming (2026)

Brothers

TBA

Fruitloops

TBA

Full Phil

TBA

Girl from the North Country

TBA

Lips Like Sugar

TBA

Sailing

TBA

The Cackling of the Dodos

TBA

The Man with the Miraculous Hands

TBA

Ella McCay

2025

Now You See Me: Now You Don't

2025

Kuleana

2025

The Electric State

2025

Last Breath

2025

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

2025

Fly Me to the Moon

2024

Suncoast

2024

Common Ground

2023

Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short

2023

White House Plumbers

2023

Champions

2023

The Man from Toronto

2022

Triangle of Sadness

2022

Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon

2022

The Freak Brothers

2021

Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story

2021

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

2021

Kate

2021

Kiss the Ground

2020

The Men of Midway

2020

Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission

2020

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"

2019

Midway

2019

Zombieland: Double Tap

2019

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"

2019

The Highwaymen

2019

Breakthrough

2019

Venom

2018

Basketball: A Love Story

2018

The Origins of Ebbing

2018

Solo: A Star Wars Story

2018

Shock and Awe

2017

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

2017

LBJ

2017

The Glass Castle

2017

War for the Planet of the Apes

2017

The Nineties

2017

Wilson

2017

Lost in London

2017

The Edge of Seventeen

2016

The Duel

2016

Now You See Me 2

2016

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

2016

Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows

2016

Triple 9

2016

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

Hot Ones

2015

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

2015

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

2014

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

True Detective

2014

Making True Detective

2013

David Blaine: Real or Magic

2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2013

Out of the Furnace

2013

Free Birds

2013

Now You See Me

2013

The Frame

2013

Seven Psychopaths

2012

How to Make Money Selling Drugs

2012

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

2012

The Hunger Games

2012

Who Bombed Judi Bari?

2012

Game Change

2012

Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis

2011

Rampart

2011

Friends with Benefits

2011

The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique

2011

Ethos

2011

Bunraku

2010

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

2010

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

2010

The Messenger

2009

2012

2009

Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

2009

Zombieland

2009

Defendor

2009

Management

2009

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days

2009

Seven Pounds

2008

Surfer, Dude

2008

Hempsters: Plant the Seed

2008

Burma: It Can't Wait

2008

Sleepwalking

2008

No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes

2008

Semi-Pro

2008

TransSiberian

2008

No Country for Old Men

2007

Raw for Life

2007

Battle in Seattle

2007

The Grand

2007

The Graham Norton Show

2007

The Walker

2007

Nanking

2007

The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales

2006

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

2006

A Scanner Darkly

2006

A Prairie Home Companion

2006

The Outsider

2005

The Big White

2005

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

2005

North Country

2005

Linklater: St. Richard of Austin

2004

After the Sunset

2004

She Hate Me

2004

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

2003

Celebrities Uncensored

2003

Scorched

2003

Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special

2003

Anger Management

2003

Go Further

2003

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003

This So-Called Disaster

2003

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

2002

American Saint

2001

Welcome to Hollywood

2000

Curb Your Enthusiasm

2000

The Directors: Milos Forman

2000

Play It to the Bone

1999

Grass

1999

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

1999

EDtv

1999

The Hi-Lo Country

1998

The Thin Red Line

1998

Will & Grace

1998

Palmetto

1998

Wag the Dog

1997

Welcome to Sarajevo

1997

The People vs. Larry Flynt

1996

Spin City

1996

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

The Daily Show

1996

Kingpin

1996

The Sunchaser

1996

Money Train

1995

Natural Born Killers

1994

The Cowboy Way

1994

I'll Do Anything

1994

Frasier

1993

Indecent Proposal

1993

For Our Children

1993

HBO First Look

1992

MTV Movie & TV Awards

1992

White Men Can't Jump

1992

Ted & Venus

1991

Doc Hollywood

1991

L.A. Story

1991

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

1990

Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special

1990

Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme

1990

The Earth Day Special

1990

Cool Blue

1990

The Simpsons

1989

True Believer

1989

Killer Instinct

1988

Mickey's 60th Birthday

1988

Dear John

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988

She's Having a Baby

1988

Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim

1987

Bay Coven

1987

Wildcats

1986

Cheers

1982

Harper Valley P.T.A.

1978 Debut

Saturday Night Live

1975

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962
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