
Woody Harrelson
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Biography
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

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Saturday Night Live

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Oscars

E! True Hollywood Story

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Real Time with Bill Maher

Will & Grace

Frasier

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

MTV Movie & TV Awards

The Simpsons

The Graham Norton Show

Curb Your Enthusiasm

HBO First Look

The Daily Show

Dear John

Celebrities Uncensored

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

She's Having a Baby

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Wildcats

Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special

Anger Management

True Detective

The Thin Red Line

The Electric State

Cheers

Venom

2012

The Outsider

Friends with Benefits

Now You See Me: Now You Don't

Triple 9

A Prairie Home Companion

Triangle of Sadness

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

The Hunger Games

Wag the Dog

No Country for Old Men

Surfer, Dude

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Suncoast

After the Sunset

Out of the Furnace

Indecent Proposal

Fly Me to the Moon

Now You See Me

Kate

Now You See Me 2

Seven Pounds

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Bunraku

Midway

The Messenger

Zombieland

The Glass Castle

Money Train

Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Brothers

The Highwaymen

War for the Planet of the Apes

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Man from Toronto

The Edge of Seventeen

Zombieland: Double Tap

Natural Born Killers

Champions

White House Plumbers

The Cowboy Way

Last Breath

Kingpin

Free Jimmy
Production Credits
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