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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 23, 1961
Place of Birth
Midland, Texas, USA
Also Known As
- Woodrow Tracy Harrelson
Woody Harrelson
5.2 Popularity
Biography
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is a European-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
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Boxer (voice)
Animal Farm
2026
🎬
0.0
Richard Moore
Criminology
2025
5.1
Eddie McCay
Ella McCay
2025
6.5
Merritt McKinney
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
0.0
Narrator (voice)
Kuleana
2025
6.5
Mr. Peanut (voice)
The Electric State
2025
7.0
Duncan Allcock
Last Breath
2025
7.7
Self
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
6.8
Moe Berkus
Fly Me to the Moon
2024
6.7
Paul
Suncoast
2024
Credits
Animal Farm
as Boxer (voice)
2026
0.0
🎬
Criminology
as Richard Moore
2025
0.0
Ella McCay
as Eddie McCay
2025
5.1
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
as Merritt McKinney
2025
6.5
Kuleana
as Narrator (voice)
2025
0.0
The Electric State
as Mr. Peanut (voice)
2025
6.5
Last Breath
as Duncan Allcock
2025
7.0
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self
2025
7.7
Fly Me to the Moon
as Moe Berkus
2024
6.8
Suncoast
as Paul
2024
6.7
Common Ground
as Self
2023
6.1
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
as Self
2023
0.0
White House Plumbers
as E. Howard Hunt
2023
6.3
Champions
as Marcus
2023
6.7
The Man from Toronto
as The Man from Toronto
2022
6.4
Triangle of Sadness
as The Captain
2022
7.0
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
as Self
2022
0.0
The Freak Brothers
as Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice)
2021
5.6
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
as Narrator (voice)
2021
6.0
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2021
6.8
Kate
as Varrick
2021
6.6
Kiss the Ground
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
7.7
🎬
The Men of Midway
as Self
2020
0.0
🎬
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
as Self
2020
0.0
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Archie Bunker
2019
6.1
Midway
as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
2019
7.1
Zombieland: Double Tap
as Tallahassee
2019
6.9
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
as Archie Bunker
2019
6.6
The Highwaymen
as Manny Gault
2019
6.8
Breakthrough
as Narrator (voice)
2019
6.9
Venom
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2018
6.8
Basketball: A Love Story
as Self (archive footage)
2018
7.3
The Origins of Ebbing
as Self
2018
6.0
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Tobias Beckett
2018
6.6
Shock and Awe
as Jonathan Landay
2017
6.3
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Bill Willoughby
2017
8.1
LBJ
as Lyndon B. Johnson
2017
6.4
The Glass Castle
as Rex Walls
2017
7.1
War for the Planet of the Apes
as The Colonel
2017
7.2
The Nineties
as Self (archive footage)
2017
6.9
Wilson
as Wilson
2017
6.0
Lost in London
as Woody Harrelson
2017
5.9
The Edge of Seventeen
as Mr. Bruner
2016
7.2
The Duel
as Abraham Brant
2016
5.4
Now You See Me 2
as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
2016
6.8
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2016
7.6
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
as Self
2016
4.1
Triple 9
as Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
2016
6.0
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Haymitch Abernathy
2015
6.9
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Hot Ones
as Self
2015
7.2
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
2015
7.2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
as Haymitch Abernathy
2014
6.8
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
2014
6.4
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
True Detective
as Martin Hart
2014
8.3
David Blaine: Real or Magic
as Self
2013
6.7
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Haymitch Abernathy
2013
7.4
Out of the Furnace
as Harlan DeGroat
2013
6.6
Free Birds
as Jake (voice)
2013
5.9
Now You See Me
as Merritt McKinney
2013
7.3
The Frame
as Haymitch Abernathy
2013
10.0
Seven Psychopaths
as Charlie Costello
2012
6.8
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
as Self
2012
7.1
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
2012
8.2
The Hunger Games
as Haymitch Abernathy
2012
7.2
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012
0.0
Game Change
as Steve Schmidt
2012
6.9
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
as Self
2011
5.6
Rampart
as Dave Brown
2011
5.4
Friends with Benefits
as Tommy Bollinger
2011
6.7
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique
as Self
2011
7.2
Ethos
as Host
2011
6.9
Bunraku
as The Bartender
2010
5.8
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
as Self
2010
7.8
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
as Self
2010
7.0
The Messenger
as Tony Stone
2009
6.8
2012
as Charlie Frost
2009
5.9
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
as Self
2009
6.6
Zombieland
as Tallahassee
2009
7.3
Defendor
as Arthur Poppington / Defendor
2009
6.4
Management
as Jango
2009
5.4
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
as Self
2009
6.8
Seven Pounds
as Ezra Turner
2008
7.6
Surfer, Dude
as Jack
2008
4.6
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
as Himself
2008
6.1
🎬
Burma: It Can't Wait
as Divo
2008
0.0
Sleepwalking
as Randall
2008
6.0
No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
as Self
2008
6.9
Semi-Pro
as Monix
2008
5.6
TransSiberian
as Roy
2008
6.4
No Country for Old Men
as Carson Wells
2007
7.9
Raw for Life
as Self
2007
0.0
Battle in Seattle
as Dale
2007
6.3
The Grand
as One Eyed Jack Faro
2007
5.8
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The Walker
as Carter Page III
2007
5.2
Nanking
as Bob Wilson
2007
7.1
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
as Self / Luckman
2006
8.2
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
as Self
2006
7.0
A Scanner Darkly
as Ernie Luckman
2006
6.8
A Prairie Home Companion
as Dusty
2006
6.3
The Outsider
as Self
2005
6.2
The Big White
as Raymond Barnell
2005
6.2
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
as Kelly Ryan
2005
6.6
North Country
as Bill White
2005
7.2
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
as Self
2004
0.0
After the Sunset
as Stan Lloyd
2004
6.2
She Hate Me
as Leland Powell
2004
5.1
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Celebrities Uncensored
as Self
2003
4.0
Scorched
as Jason 'Woods' Valley
2003
5.5
Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
as Self - Host
2003
10.0
Anger Management
as Galaxia / Security Guard Gary
2003
6.2
Go Further
as Self
2003
6.4
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
6.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
This So-Called Disaster
as Taxi Driver
2003
4.6
🎬
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Narrator (voice)
2002
0.0
American Saint
as Self
2001
6.0
Welcome to Hollywood
as Woody Harrelson
2000
3.8
Curb Your Enthusiasm
as Woody Harrelson
2000
8.0
The Directors: Milos Forman
as Self
2000
0.0
Play It to the Bone
as Vince Boudreau
1999
5.5
Grass
as Narrator (voice)
1999
6.5
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
as Woody Harrelson
1999
6.3
EDtv
as Ray Pekurny
1999
6.0
The Hi-Lo Country
as Big Boy Matson
1998
6.1
The Thin Red Line
as Sgt. William Keck
1998
7.4
Will & Grace
as Nathan
1998
6.8
Palmetto
as Harry Barber
1998
5.9
Wag the Dog
as Sergeant William Schumann
1997
6.9
Welcome to Sarajevo
as Flynn
1997
6.4
The People vs. Larry Flynt
as Larry Flynt
1996
7.0
Spin City
as Tommy Dugan
1996
7.0
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Kingpin
as Roy Munson
1996
6.5
The Sunchaser
as Dr. Michael Reynolds
1996
6.2
Money Train
as Charlie
1995
5.8
Natural Born Killers
as Mickey Knox
1994
7.1
The Cowboy Way
as Pepper Lewis
1994
5.7
I'll Do Anything
as Ground Zero Hero
1994
5.5
Frasier
as Woody Boyd
1993
7.7
Indecent Proposal
as David Murphy
1993
6.4
For Our Children
as Self
1993
7.0
HBO First Look
1992
4.9
MTV Movie & TV Awards
as Self - Presenter
1992
8.1
White Men Can't Jump
as Billy Hoyle
1992
6.6
Ted & Venus
as Homeless Vietnam Veteran
1991
4.0
Doc Hollywood
as Hank Gordon
1991
6.3
L.A. Story
as Harris' Boss (uncredited)
1991
6.5
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
0.0
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
as Self
1990
6.0
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
as Lou the Lamb
1990
4.6
The Earth Day Special
as Woody Boyd
1990
6.3
Cool Blue
as Dustin
1990
4.2
The Simpsons
as Woody Boyd (voice)
1989
8.0
True Believer
as Man in Dodd's office
1989
6.2
Killer Instinct
as Charlie Long
1988
6.0
Mickey's 60th Birthday
as Woody Boyd
1988
6.7
Dear John
as Richard
1988
5.5
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self
1988
5.4
She's Having a Baby
as Woody Harrelson (uncredited)
1988
5.9
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
as Self
1987
0.0
Bay Coven
as Slater
1987
4.0
Wildcats
as Krushinski
1986
6.3
Cheers
as Woody Boyd
1982
7.6
Harper Valley P.T.A.
as Extra (uncredited)
1978
7.1
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self
1975
7.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Lips Like Sugar
as John Carr
N/A
0.0
Girl from the North Country
as Nick Laine
N/A
7.0
🎬
Brothers
as Woody Harrelson
N/A
0.0
🎬
Fruitloops
N/A
0.0
🎬
Zombieland 3
as Tallahassee
N/A
0.0
🎬
Sailing
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Man with the Miraculous Hands
as Felix Kersten
N/A
0.0
🎬
Full Phil
as Philip Doom
N/A
0.0