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 | |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1961 |
| From | Midland, Texas, USA |