Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

Born 1961-07-23 (age 64) Midland, Texas, USA
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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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Known For

Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Now You See Me: Now You Don't

2025

as Merritt McKinney

Animal Farm
Animal Farm

2026

as Boxer (voice)

No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men

2007

as Carson Wells

2012
2012

2009

as Charlie Frost

Venom
Venom

2018

as Cletus Kasady / Carnage

Now You See Me
Now You See Me

2013

as Merritt McKinney

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

2014

as Haymitch Abernathy

Now You See Me 2
Now You See Me 2

2016

as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney

Indecent Proposal
Indecent Proposal

1993

as David Murphy

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2013

as Haymitch Abernathy

Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Venom: Let There Be Carnage

2021

as Cletus Kasady / Carnage

War for the Planet of the Apes
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games

2012

as Haymitch Abernathy

Zombieland
Zombieland

2009

as Tallahassee

Solo: A Star Wars Story
Solo: A Star Wars Story

2018

as Tobias Beckett

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

2015

as Haymitch Abernathy

The Electric State
The Electric State

2025

as Mr. Peanut (voice)

Midway
Midway

2019

as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

Friends with Benefits
Friends with Benefits

2011

as Tommy Bollinger

Zombieland: Double Tap
Zombieland: Double Tap

2019

as Tallahassee