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Woody Harrelson Biography and Full Filmography - MovieWise

Quick Facts

Born:
1961-07-23

Birthplace:
Midland, Texas, USA

Credits:
186 Total Roles

Woody Harrelson

Acting

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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).

Known For

Full Filmography

Year Title Role
2026 Animal Farm MOVIE Boxer (voice)
2025 Ella McCay MOVIE Eddie McCay
2025 Now You See Me: Now You Don't MOVIE Merritt McKinney
2025 Kuleana MOVIE Narrator (voice)
2025 The Electric State MOVIE Mr. Peanut (voice)
2025 Last Breath MOVIE Duncan Allcock
2025 Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music MOVIE Self
2024 Fly Me to the Moon MOVIE Moe Berkus
2024 Suncoast MOVIE Paul
2023 Common Ground MOVIE Self

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