Woody Harrelson
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson 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
CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Cheers
7.6
The Simpsons
8.013
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.531
The Daily Show
6.387
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
5.543
Spin City
7.072
E! True Hollywood Story
8.103
Frasier
7.681
Will & Grace
6.8
Celebrities Uncensored
4
Basketball: A Love Story
7
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
6.281
True Detective
8.28
The Freak Brothers
5.7
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.323
Curb Your Enthusiasm
8.015
MTV Movie & TV Awards
8.1
The Graham Norton Show
7.185
The Nineties
6.8
Saturday Night Live
7
The Frame
10
Honest Trailers
6.609
Dear John
5.528
Brothers
0
Saturday Night Live
7
White House Plumbers
6.282
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
5.711
Real Time with Bill Maher
6.029
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.459
HBO First Look
4.9
The Oscars
7.056
Saturday Night Live
7
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
6.281
The Kelly Clarkson Show
6.5
Movies
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
8.2
Natural Born Killers
7.1
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
6.1
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
7.6
The Hi-Lo Country
6.1
Wag the Dog
6.944
White Men Can't Jump
6.6
The People vs. Larry Flynt
7
After the Sunset
6.156
A Scanner Darkly
6.808
Scorched
5.524
Indecent Proposal
6.396
Bunraku
5.811
Play It to the Bone
5.53
Money Train
5.853
Grass
6.5
EDtv
5.956
Kingpin
6.504
Management
5.4
Girl from the North Country
0
Triangle of Sadness
7.052
Seven Pounds
7.604
TransSiberian
6.399
Doc Hollywood
6.362
No Country for Old Men
7.9
Palmetto
5.9
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
6
The Thin Red Line
7.5
Anger Management
6.154
A Prairie Home Companion
6.294
The Walker
5.275
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
6.7
The Big White
6.205
Semi-Pro
5.644
Go Further
6
North Country
7.253
Battle in Seattle
6.314
Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
10
The Messenger
6.757
Defendor
6.406
Surfer, Dude
4.607
2012
5.859
Wildcats
6.265
Sleepwalking
6.1
Welcome to Sarajevo
6.4
The Grand
5.9
The Sunchaser
6.183
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
4.6
Sailing
0
Nanking
7.2
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
5.2
Zombieland
7.259
The Cowboy Way
5.7
The Hunger Games
7.217
Friends with Benefits
6.653
Champions
6.739
Game Change
6.917
Cool Blue
4.091
Common Ground
5.417
Rampart
5.451
Now You See Me
7.333
Ethos
6.935
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
0
Ted & Venus
4.3
Seven Psychopaths
6.822
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
7.426
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
6.8
Raw for Life
0
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
7.069
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique
7.2
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
5.6
Lips Like Sugar
0
Bay Coven
4.026
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
6.815
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
6.898
The Outsider
6.2
Out of the Furnace
6.571
Last Breath
6.977
Free Birds
5.89
David Blaine: Real or Magic
6.724
Ella McCay
0
Suncoast
6.7
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
0
Triple 9
5.977
Now You See Me 2
6.825
The Men of Midway
0
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
0
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
0
The Duel
5.424
Wilson
6
Killer Instinct
6
LBJ
6.393
L.A. Story
6.486
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
0
Fly Me to the Moon
6.814
The Edge of Seventeen
7.16
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
4.115
For Our Children
7
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
0
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8.066
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
0
The Glass Castle
7.132
War for the Planet of the Apes
7.207
Mickey's 60th Birthday
6.8
The Electric State
6.54
Solo: A Star Wars Story
6.6
Lost in London
5.9
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
6.286
I'll Do Anything
5.588
Harper Valley P.T.A.
7.1
She's Having a Baby
5.925
This So-Called Disaster
4.2
True Believer
6.2
Welcome to Hollywood
3.6
She Hate Me
5.2
Shock and Awe
6.394
The Highwaymen
6.754
Zombieland: Double Tap
6.916
Midway
7.117
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
6.6
Venom
6.8
No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
6.9
Breakthrough
7
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
6.769
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
8.2
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
6.6
The Origins of Ebbing
6
Fruitloops
0
Kate
6.637
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
7.2
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
6.143
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
7
The Man from Toronto
6.366
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
7.8
Burma: It Can't Wait
0
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
6
Kiss the Ground
7.7
The Man with the Miraculous Hands
0
American Saint
6
The Earth Day Special
6.875
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
0
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
7.833
The Directors: Milos Forman
0
Animal Farm
5.4
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
7
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
0
Making True Detective
0