Birth Day: 1961-07-23
Place of birth: 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).
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As Eddie McCay -
As Narrator (voice) -
As Boxer (voice) -
As Self -
As Mr. Peanut (voice) -
As Merritt McKinney -
As Duncan Allcock -
As Paul -
As Moe Berkus -
As Marcus -
As Self -
As Self -
As The Captain -
As The Man from Toronto -
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As Cletus Kasady / Carnage -
As Varrick -
As Self
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As Self
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As Self - Narrator (voice) -
As Admiral Chester W. Nimitz -
As Tallahassee -
As Manny Gault -
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As Archie Bunker -
As Archie Bunker -
As Tobias Beckett -
As Cletus Kasady / Carnage -
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As Rex Walls -
As The Colonel -
As Woody Harrelson -
As Jonathan Landay -
As Lyndon B. Johnson -
As Wilson -
As Bill Willoughby -
As Self (Haymitch Abernathy) -
As Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen -
As Abraham Brant -
As Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney -
As Mr. Bruner -
As Self -
As Self - Haymitch Abernathy -
As Haymitch Abernathy -
As Haymitch Abernathy -
As Martin Hart -
As Self - Haymitch Abernathy -
As Jake (voice) -
As Harlan DeGroat -
As Self -
As Haymitch Abernathy -
As Merritt McKinney -
As Self -
As Charlie Costello -
As Self (archive footage) (uncredited) -
As Self - Haymitch Abernathy -
As Steve Schmidt -
As Haymitch Abernathy -
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As Dave Brown -
As Tommy Bollinger -
As Host -
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As The Bartender -
As Arthur Poppington / Defendor -
As Tony Stone -
As Jango -
As Tallahassee -
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As Charlie Frost -
As Randall -
As Divo
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As Ezra Turner -
As Roy -
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As Jack -
As Monix -
As Himself -
As Bob Wilson -
As One Eyed Jack Faro -
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As Dale -
As Carson Wells -
As Carter Page III -
As Ernie Luckman -
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As Dusty -
As Raymond Barnell -
As Kelly Ryan -
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As Bill White -
As Stan Lloyd -
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As Leland Powell -
As Jason 'Woods' Valley -
As Galaxia / Security Guard Gary -
As Self - Host -
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As Taxi Driver -
As Narrator (voice)
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As Self -
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As Woody Harrelson -
As Ray Pekurny -
As Woody Harrelson -
As Vince Boudreau -
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As Harry Barber -
As Big Boy Matson -
As Sgt. William Keck -
As Sergeant William Schumann -
As Flynn -
As Roy Munson -
As Dr. Michael Reynolds -
As Larry Flynt -
As Charlie -
As Mickey Knox -
As Ground Zero Hero -
As Pepper Lewis -
As David Murphy -
As Self -
As Billy Hoyle -
As Hank Gordon -
As Harris' Boss (uncredited) -
As Homeless Vietnam Veteran -
As Woody Boyd -
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As Dustin -
As Lou the Lamb -
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As Man in Dodd's office -
As Woody Boyd -
As Woody Harrelson (uncredited) -
As Charlie Long -
As Self -
As Slater -
As Krushinski -
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As Nick Laine -
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As John Carr -
As Felix Kersten
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As Philip Doom
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As Tallahassee
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