Woody Harrelson
  • Known for: Acting
  • Born: 23 July 1961 (age 65)
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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).

Acting

Animal Farm 2026Boxer (voice)
Triangle of Sadness 2022The Captain
The Edge of Seventeen 2016Mr. Bruner
Triple 9 2016Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
True Detective 2014Martin Hart
The Hunger Games 2012Haymitch Abernathy
No Country for Old Men 2007Carson Wells
The Thin Red Line 1998Sgt. William Keck
Indecent Proposal 1993David Murphy
White Men Can't Jump 1992Billy Hoyle
Cool Blue 1990Dustin

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