Woody Harrelson
Acting
1961-07-23 · Midland, Texas, USA
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
Brothers
2026 · Series
Robert Richardson: The White Devil
2026 · Movie
Full Phil
2026 · Movie
Groundswell
2026 · Movie
Animal Farm
2026 · Movie
Ella McCay
2025 · Movie
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025 · Movie
Kuleana
2025 · Movie
The Electric State
2025 · Movie
Last Breath
2025 · Movie
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025 · Movie
Fly Me to the Moon
2024 · Movie
Suncoast
2024 · Movie
Common Ground
2023 · Movie
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
2023 · Movie
White House Plumbers
2023 · Series
Champions
2023 · Movie
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
2022 · Movie
The Man from Toronto
2022 · Movie
Triangle of Sadness
2022 · Movie
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
2022 · Movie
The Freak Brothers
2021 · Series
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
2021 · Movie
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021 · Movie
Kate
2021 · Movie
Kiss the Ground
2020 · Movie
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
2020 · Movie
The Men of Midway
2020 · Movie
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019 · Movie
Midway
2019 · Movie
Zombieland: Double Tap
2019 · Movie
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2019 · Movie
The Highwaymen
2019 · Movie
Breakthrough
2019 · Movie
Venom
2018 · Movie
Basketball: A Love Story
2018 · Series
The Origins of Ebbing
2018 · Movie
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018 · Movie
Shock and Awe
2017 · Movie
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 · Movie
LBJ
2017 · Movie
The Glass Castle
2017 · Movie
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017 · Movie
The Nineties
2017 · Series
Wilson
2017 · Movie
Lost in London
2017 · Movie
The Edge of Seventeen
2016 · Movie
The Duel
2016 · Movie
Now You See Me 2
2016 · Movie
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
2016 · Movie
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016 · Movie
Triple 9
2016 · Movie
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Hot Ones
2015 · Series
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015 · Movie
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 · Movie
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
True Detective
2014 · Series
David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013 · Movie
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 · Movie
Out of the Furnace
2013 · Movie
Free Birds
2013 · Movie
Now You See Me
2013 · Movie
The Frame
2013 · Series
Seven Psychopaths
2012 · Movie
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
2012 · Movie
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012 · Movie
The Hunger Games
2012 · Movie
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
2012 · Movie
Game Change
2012 · Movie
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
2011 · Movie
Rampart
2011 · Movie
Friends with Benefits
2011 · Movie
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique
2011 · Movie
Ethos
2011 · Movie
Bunraku
2010 · Movie
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010 · Movie
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010 · Movie
The Messenger
2009 · Movie
2012
2009 · Movie
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009 · Movie
Zombieland
2009 · Movie
Defendor
2009 · Movie
Management
2009 · Movie
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
2009 · Movie
Seven Pounds
2008 · Movie
The Hempire Strikes Back
2008 · Movie
Surfer, Dude
2008 · Movie
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
2008 · Movie
Burma: It Can't Wait
2008 · Movie
Sleepwalking
2008 · Movie
Behind the Scenes of 'No Country for Old Men': An Incredibly Unauthorized Documentary
2008 · Movie
Semi-Pro
2008 · Movie
TransSiberian
2008 · Movie
No Country for Old Men
2007 · Movie
Raw for Life
2007 · Movie
Battle in Seattle
2007 · Movie
The Grand
2007 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
The Walker
2007 · Movie
Nanking
2007 · Movie
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006 · Movie
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006 · Movie
A Scanner Darkly
2006 · Movie
A Prairie Home Companion
2006 · Movie
The Outsider
2005 · Movie
The Big White
2005 · Movie
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
2005 · Movie
North Country
2005 · Movie
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
2004 · Movie
After the Sunset
2004 · Movie
She Hate Me
2004 · Movie
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Series
Celebrities Uncensored
2003 · Series
Scorched
2003 · Movie
Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
2003 · Movie
Anger Management
2003 · Movie
Go Further
2003 · Movie
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
This So-Called Disaster
2003 · Movie
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002 · Movie
American Saint
2001 · Movie
Welcome to Hollywood
2000 · Movie
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000 · Series
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000 · Movie
Play It to the Bone
1999 · Movie
Grass
1999 · Movie
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999 · Movie
EDtv
1999 · Movie
Mark Twain Prize
1999 · Series
The Hi-Lo Country
1998 · Movie
The Thin Red Line
1998 · Movie
Will & Grace
1998 · Series
Palmetto
1998 · Movie
Wag the Dog
1997 · Movie
Welcome to Sarajevo
1997 · Movie
The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996 · Movie
Spin City
1996 · Series
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Series
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
Kingpin
1996 · Movie
The Sunchaser
1996 · Movie
Money Train
1995 · Movie
Natural Born Killers
1994 · Movie
The Cowboy Way
1994 · Movie
I'll Do Anything
1994 · Movie
Frasier
1993 · Series
Indecent Proposal
1993 · Movie
For Our Children
1993 · Movie
The Panama Deception
1992 · Movie
HBO First Look
1992 · Series
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992 · Series
White Men Can't Jump
1992 · Movie
Ted & Venus
1991 · Movie
Doc Hollywood
1991 · Movie
L.A. Story
1991 · Movie
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990 · Movie
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
1990 · Movie
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
1990 · Movie
The Earth Day Special
1990 · Movie
Cool Blue
1990 · Movie
The Simpsons
1989 · Series
True Believer
1989 · Movie
Killer Instinct
1988 · Movie
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988 · Movie
Dear John
1988 · Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
She's Having a Baby
1988 · Movie
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
1987 · Movie
Bay Coven
1987 · Movie
Wildcats
1986 · Movie
Cheers
1982 · Series
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Series
Harper Valley P.T.A.
1978 · Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
The Emmy Awards
1949 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
The Cackling of the Dodos
Movie
Lips Like Sugar
Movie
Summer of Roses
Movie
Armadillo World Headquarters
Movie
The Man with the Miraculous Hands
Movie
Fruitloops
Movie