Woody Harrelson
Birthday: 1961-07-23 | Place of Birth: Midland, Texas, USAWoodrow 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).
Known For
Acting
Role
as Boxer (voice)
as Duncan Allcock
as Eddie McCay
as Merritt McKinney
as Mr. Peanut (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Richard Moore
as Cameroon sals
as Moe Berkus
as Paul
as E. Howard Hunt
as Marcus
as Officer Tate
as Self
as The Captain
as The Man from Toronto
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
as Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Varrick
as Self
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
as Manny Gault
as Narrator (voice)
as Tallahassee
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
