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Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

Acting
Born: Jul 23, 1961
From: Midland, Texas, USA
Credits: 30 titles

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).

Filmography

Title Character Year Rating
Triangle of Sadness The Captain 2022 7.019
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story Narrator (voice) 2021 6.0
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Self (Haymitch Abernathy) 2016 7.6
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Self - Haymitch Abernathy 2014 6.4
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games Self - Haymitch Abernathy 2012 8.5
Bunraku The Bartender 2010 5.792
Management Jango 2009 5.4
Seven Pounds Ezra Turner 2008 7.601
TransSiberian Roy 2008 6.398
No Country for Old Men Carson Wells 2007 7.951
A Scanner Darkly Ernie Luckman 2006 6.798
A Prairie Home Companion Dusty 2006 6.265
After the Sunset Stan Lloyd 2004 6.168
Scorched Jason 'Woods' Valley 2003 5.53
Anger Management Galaxia / Security Guard Gary 2003 6.2
Play It to the Bone Vince Boudreau 1999 5.446
Grass Narrator (voice) 1999 6.581
EDtv Ray Pekurny 1999 6.0
The Hi-Lo Country Big Boy Matson 1998 6.061
Palmetto Harry Barber 1998 5.981
The Thin Red Line Sgt. William Keck 1998 7.442
Wag the Dog Sergeant William Schumann 1997 6.941
The People vs. Larry Flynt Larry Flynt 1996 6.975
Kingpin Roy Munson 1996 6.5
Money Train Charlie 1995 5.86
Natural Born Killers Mickey Knox 1994 7.054
Indecent Proposal David Murphy 1993 6.398
White Men Can't Jump Billy Hoyle 1992 6.646
Doc Hollywood Hank Gordon 1991 6.354
Girl from the North Country Nick Laine 7.0
Quick Facts
Known forActing
Credits30
Born1961
FromMidland, Texas, USA