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Acting

Birthdate

1961-07-23 (Age: 65)

Place of Birth

Midland, Texas, USA

Woody Harrelson

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).

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Woody Harrelson

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Filmography (145)

Full Phil

Animal Farm

Ella McCay

Now You See Me: Now You Don't

Kuleana

The Electric State

Last Breath

Saturday Night Live: 50th Anniversary Special

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Fly Me to the Moon

Suncoast

Common Ground

Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short

Champions

The Man from Toronto

Triangle of Sadness

Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon

Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Kate

Kiss the Ground

The Men of Midway

Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"

Midway

Zombieland: Double Tap

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"

The Highwaymen

Breakthrough

Venom

The Origins of Ebbing

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Shock and Awe

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

LBJ

The Glass Castle

War for the Planet of the Apes

Wilson

Lost in London

The Edge of Seventeen

The Duel

Now You See Me 2

Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows

Triple 9

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

David Blaine: Real or Magic

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Out of the Furnace

Free Birds

Now You See Me

Seven Psychopaths

How to Make Money Selling Drugs

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

Who Bombed Judi Bari?

Game Change

Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis

Rampart

Friends with Benefits

The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique

Ethos

Bunraku

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

The Messenger

2012

Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

Zombieland

Defendor

Management

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days

Seven Pounds