Woody Harrelson
Known for Acting · 185 credits
- Born
- 1961-07-23 (age 64)
- Place of birth
- Midland, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- Woodrow Tracy 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).
Known For
TV Shows (33)
The Simpsons
1989
as Woody Boyd (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest / Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
Frasier
1993
as Woody Boyd
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited) / Self (uncredited)
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
as Woody Harrelson
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self / Self - Guest
True Detective
2014
as Martin Hart
Cheers
1982
as Woody Boyd
Hot Ones
2015
as Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self
Will & Grace
1998
as Nathan
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Spin City
1996
as Tommy Dugan
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
as Self - Presenter
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Basketball: A Love Story
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Dear John
1988
as Richard
HBO First Look
1992
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Woody Boyd
White House Plumbers
2023
as E. Howard Hunt
The Frame
2013
as Haymitch Abernathy
The Nineties
2017
as Self (archive footage)
The Freak Brothers
2021
as Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice)
Brothers
2026
as Woody Harrelson
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
as Self
Movies (152)
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
as Merritt McKinney
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
as Haymitch Abernathy
No Country for Old Men
2007
as Carson Wells
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
as Haymitch Abernathy
Now You See Me
2013
as Merritt McKinney
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017
as The Colonel
Now You See Me 2
2016
as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
Venom
2018
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2012
2009
as Charlie Frost
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
as Haymitch Abernathy
The Hunger Games
2012
as Haymitch Abernathy
The Electric State
2025
as Mr. Peanut (voice)
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018
as Tobias Beckett
Friends with Benefits
2011
as Tommy Bollinger
Zombieland
2009
as Tallahassee
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017
as Willoughby
Zombieland: Double Tap
2019
as Tallahassee
Indecent Proposal
1993
as David Murphy
Triangle of Sadness
2022
as The Captain
Midway
2019
as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
The Thin Red Line
1998
as Sgt. William Keck
The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996
as Larry Flynt
The Big White
2005
as Raymond Barnell
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999
as Woody Harrelson
The Edge of Seventeen
2016
as Mr. Bruner
Seven Pounds
2008
as Ezra Turner
Free Birds
2013
as Jake (voice)
Animal Farm
2026
as Boxer (voice)
Anger Management
2003
as Galaxia / Security Guard Gary
Natural Born Killers
1994
as Mickey Knox
The Highwaymen
2019
as Manny Gault
The Man from Toronto
2022
as The Man from Toronto
Seven Psychopaths
2012
as Charlie Costello
Kate
2021
as Varrick
Last Breath
2025
as Duncan Allcock
Fly Me to the Moon
2024
as Moe Berkus
Out of the Furnace
2013
as Harlan DeGroat
The Glass Castle
2017
as Rex Walls
Ella McCay
2025
as Eddie McCay
After the Sunset
2004
as Stan Lloyd
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
as Woody Harrelson
Triple 9
2016
as Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
White Men Can't Jump
1992
as Billy Hoyle
Kingpin
1996
as Roy Munson
TransSiberian
2008
as Roy
Money Train
1995
as Charlie
A Scanner Darkly
2006
as Ernie Luckman
Shock and Awe
2017
as Jonathan Landay
Champions
2023
as Marcus
Kiss the Ground
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
North Country
2005
as Bill White
Bunraku
2010
as The Bartender
The Earth Day Special
1990
as Woody Boyd
Semi-Pro
2008
as Monix
Burma: It Can't Wait
2008
as Divo
Doc Hollywood
1991
as Hank Gordon
Grass
1999
as Narrator (voice)
She's Having a Baby
1988
as Woody Harrelson (uncredited)
She Hate Me
2004
as Leland Powell
Wag the Dog
1997
as Sergeant William Schumann
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
as Self
The Cowboy Way
1994
as Pepper Lewis
Rampart
2011
as Dave Brown
LBJ
2017
as Lyndon B. Johnson
Surfer, Dude
2008
as Jack
Palmetto
1998
as Harry Barber
Game Change
2012
as Steve Schmidt
The Messenger
2009
as Tony Stone
Defendor
2009
as Arthur Poppington / Defendor
Wilson
2017
as Wilson
The Outsider
2005
as Self
Groundswell
2026
as Narrator (voice)
EDtv
1999
as Ray Pekurny
I'll Do Anything
1994
as Ground Zero Hero
Robert Richardson: The White Devil
2026
as Self
Wildcats
1986
as Krushinski
The Cackling of the Dodos
L.A. Story
1991
as Harris' Boss (uncredited)
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
as Dusty
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
2004
as Self
Scorched
2003
as Jason 'Woods' Valley
Play It to the Bone
1999
as Vince Boudreau
Lost in London
2017
as Woody Harrelson
The Duel
2016
as Abraham Brant
Suncoast
2024
as Paul
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988
as Woody Boyd
David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013
as Self
Battle in Seattle
2007
as Dale
True Believer
1989
as Man in Dodd's office
The Grand
2007
as One Eyed Jack Faro
Full Phil
2026
as Philip Doom
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
2005
as Kelly Ryan
Harper Valley P.T.A.
1978
as Extra (uncredited)
Welcome to Sarajevo
1997
as Flynn
Management
2009
as Jango
The Men of Midway
2020
as Self
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016
as Self
The Walker
2007
as Carter Page III
Lips Like Sugar
as John Carr
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
as Big Boy Matson
Nanking
2007
as Bob Wilson
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
2011
as Self
Common Ground
2023
as Self
The Sunchaser
1996
as Dr. Michael Reynolds
The Origins of Ebbing
2018
as Self
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
1990
as Woody Boyd
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
2012
as Self
For Our Children
1993
as Self
Cool Blue
1990
as Dustin
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019
as Archie Bunker
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
1990
as Lou the Lamb
This So-Called Disaster
2003
as Taxi Driver
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
as Self
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
2008
as Himself
Ted & Venus
1991
as Homeless Vietnam Veteran
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
as Narrator (voice)
Sailing
Bay Coven
1987
as Slater
About 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), Nat… With 185 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Woody Harrelson has appeared in 152 films and 33 TV shows.
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Most Popular Woody Harrelson Movies
- Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) — as Merritt McKinney
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) — as Haymitch Abernathy
- No Country for Old Men (2007) — as Carson Wells
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) — as Haymitch Abernathy
- Now You See Me (2013) — as Merritt McKinney
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