
Woody Harrelson
Known for Acting · 182 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 (32)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

The Simpsons
1989
as Woody Boyd (voice)

The Daily Show
1996
as Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest / Self - Guest

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited) / Self (uncredited)

Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self

Frasier
1993
as Woody Boyd

Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
as Woody Harrelson

Cheers
1982
as Woody Boyd

True Detective
2014
as Martin Hart

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee

Will & Grace
1998
as Nathan

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self / Self - Guest

Hot Ones
2015
as Self

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

Dear John
1988
as Richard

Basketball: A Love Story
2018
as Self (archive footage)

HBO First Look
1992

The Frame
2013
as Haymitch Abernathy

The Nineties
2017
as Self (archive footage)

White House Plumbers
2023
as E. Howard Hunt

The Freak Brothers
2021
as Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice)

E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Brothers
as Woody Harrelson

Celebrities Uncensored
2003
as Self
Movies (150)

Animal Farm
2026
as Boxer (voice)

Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
as Merritt McKinney

No Country for Old Men
2007
as Carson Wells

2012
2009
as Charlie Frost

Venom
2018
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
as Haymitch Abernathy

Now You See Me
2013
as Merritt McKinney

Now You See Me 2
2016
as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
as Haymitch Abernathy

War for the Planet of the Apes
2017
as The Colonel

Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage

Zombieland
2009
as Tallahassee

The Hunger Games
2012
as Haymitch Abernathy

Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018
as Tobias Beckett

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
as Haymitch Abernathy

Indecent Proposal
1993
as David Murphy

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017
as Willoughby

The Electric State
2025
as Mr. Peanut (voice)

Friends with Benefits
2011
as Tommy Bollinger

Midway
2019
as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

Natural Born Killers
1994
as Mickey Knox

The Thin Red Line
1998
as Sgt. William Keck

Zombieland: Double Tap
2019
as Tallahassee

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999
as Woody Harrelson

Seven Psychopaths
2012
as Charlie Costello

Fly Me to the Moon
2024
as Moe Berkus

Last Breath
2025
as Duncan Allcock

Ella McCay
2025
as Eddie McCay

Anger Management
2003
as Galaxia / Security Guard Gary

Triangle of Sadness
2022
as The Captain

Seven Pounds
2008
as Ezra Turner

Money Train
1995
as Charlie

Triple 9
2016
as Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen

North Country
2005
as Bill White

Free Birds
2013
as Jake (voice)

After the Sunset
2004
as Stan Lloyd

Out of the Furnace
2013
as Harlan DeGroat

Kingpin
1996
as Roy Munson

A Scanner Darkly
2006
as Ernie Luckman

Kate
2021
as Varrick

The Man from Toronto
2022
as The Man from Toronto

The Edge of Seventeen
2016
as Mr. Bruner

The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996
as Larry Flynt

Semi-Pro
2008
as Monix

The Messenger
2009
as Tony Stone

The Glass Castle
2017
as Rex Walls

The Highwaymen
2019
as Manny Gault

Defendor
2009
as Arthur Poppington / Defendor

Wag the Dog
1997
as Sergeant William Schumann

Champions
2023
as Marcus

The Duel
2016
as Abraham Brant

White Men Can't Jump
1992
as Billy Hoyle

EDtv
1999
as Ray Pekurny

Management
2009
as Jango

Bunraku
2010
as The Bartender

Suncoast
2024
as Paul

Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016
as Self

The Sunchaser
1996
as Dr. Michael Reynolds

Doc Hollywood
1991
as Hank Gordon

The Grand
2007
as One Eyed Jack Faro

Battle in Seattle
2007
as Dale

Rampart
2011
as Dave Brown

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
as Self

A Prairie Home Companion
2006
as Dusty

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy

The Earth Day Special
1990
as Woody Boyd

TransSiberian
2008
as Roy

Game Change
2012
as Steve Schmidt

The Outsider
2005
as Self

She's Having a Baby
1988
as Woody Harrelson (uncredited)

LBJ
2017
as Lyndon B. Johnson

Surfer, Dude
2008
as Jack

David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013
as Self

Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
1990
as Self

She Hate Me
2004
as Leland Powell

Kiss the Ground
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Palmetto
1998
as Harry Barber

L.A. Story
1991
as Harris' Boss (uncredited)

Sleepwalking
2008
as Randall

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019
as Archie Bunker

Wilson
2017
as Wilson

Lost in London
2017
as Woody Harrelson

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy

Wildcats
1986
as Krushinski

The Hi-Lo Country
1998
as Big Boy Matson

Shock and Awe
2017
as Jonathan Landay

True Believer
1989
as Man in Dodd's office

The Cowboy Way
1994
as Pepper Lewis

Scorched
2003
as Jason 'Woods' Valley

Welcome to Hollywood
2000
as Woody Harrelson

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
2005
as Kelly Ryan

The Big White
2005
as Raymond Barnell

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
as Self

Nanking
2007
as Bob Wilson

Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
1987
as Self

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2019
as Archie Bunker

Play It to the Bone
1999
as Vince Boudreau

Ted & Venus
1991
as Homeless Vietnam Veteran

Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988
as Woody Boyd

I'll Do Anything
1994
as Ground Zero Hero

One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006
as Self / Luckman

Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
2011
as Self

The Walker
2007
as Carter Page III

Common Ground
2023
as Self

Bay Coven
1987
as Slater

Welcome to Sarajevo
1997
as Flynn

Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
2016
as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)

Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
1990
as Lou the Lamb

Ethos
2011
as Host

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
as Self

No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
2008
as Self

Cool Blue
1990
as Dustin

Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
2023
as Self

For Our Children
1993
as Self

How to Make Money Selling Drugs
2012
as Self
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
2020
as Self

Full Phil
2026
as Philip Doom

Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
2003
as Self - Host
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
as Narrator (voice)
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 182 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Woody Harrelson has appeared in 150 films and 32 TV shows.
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Most Popular Woody Harrelson Movies
- Animal Farm (2026) — as Boxer (voice)
- Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) — as Merritt McKinney
- No Country for Old Men (2007) — as Carson Wells
- 2012 (2009) — as Charlie Frost
- Venom (2018) — as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
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