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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Filmography (54)
Boxer (voice)
Merritt McKinney
Mr. Peanut (voice)
Duncan Allcock
Moe Berkus
The Captain
The Man from Toronto
Cletus Kasady / Carnage
Varrick
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
Tallahassee
Manny Gault
Cletus Kasady / Carnage
Tobias Beckett
The Colonel
Lyndon B. Johnson
Rex Walls
Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
Mr. Bruner
Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
Haymitch Abernathy
Martin Hart
Haymitch Abernathy
Haymitch Abernathy
Merritt McKinney
Jake (voice)
Harlan DeGroat
Haymitch Abernathy
Charlie Costello
Tommy Bollinger
The Bartender
Charlie Frost
Tallahassee
Arthur Poppington / Defendor
Tony Stone
Ezra Turner
Carson Wells
Ernie Luckman
Raymond Barnell
Bill White
Stan Lloyd
Sgt. William Keck
Sergeant William Schumann
Larry Flynt
Roy Munson
Charlie
Mickey Knox
David Murphy
Billy Hoyle
Hank Gordon
Woody Boyd