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