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 -
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As Paul -
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As Marcus -
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As The Captain -
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As Varrick -
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As Archie Bunker -
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As Wilson -
As Lyndon B. Johnson -
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As Merritt McKinney -
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As Harlan DeGroat -
As Self (archive footage) (uncredited) -
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As Charlie Costello -
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As Steve Schmidt -
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As Dave Brown -
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As Tommy Bollinger -
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As Tony Stone -
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As Charlie Frost -
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As Divo
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As Kelly Ryan -
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As Stan Lloyd -
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As Harry Barber -
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As Flynn -
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As Larry Flynt -
As Charlie -
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As Pepper Lewis -
As Mickey Knox -
As David Murphy -
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As Dustin -
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As Charlie Long -
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As John Carr
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As Felix Kersten