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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Known For

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

Real Time with Bill Maher

Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

The Graham Norton Show

Self

The Daily Show

Self

Will & Grace

Nathan

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Last Breath	Duncan Allcock
2025	Ella McCay
2025	Now You See Me: Now You Don't	Merritt McKinney
2025	The Electric State	Mr. Peanut (voice)
2025	Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music	Self
2025	Animal Farm	Boxer (voice)
2024	Suncoast	Paul
2024	Fly Me to the Moon	Moe Berkus
2023	Champions	Marcus
2023	Common Ground	Self
2023	Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short	Self
2022	Triangle of Sadness	The Captain
2022	Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon	Self
2022	Breakthrough	Narrator (voice)
2022	The Man from Toronto	The Man From Toronto
2021	Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story	Narrator (voice)
2021	Venom: Let There Be Carnage	Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2021	Kate	Varrick
2020	The Men of Midway	Self
2020	Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission	Self
2020	Kiss the Ground	Narrator (voice)
2019	The Highwaymen	Manny Gault
2019	Zombieland: Double Tap	Tallahassee
2019	Midway	Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
2019	Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"	Archie Bunker
2019	Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"	Archie Bunker
2018	Solo: A Star Wars Story	Tobias Beckett
2018	Venom	Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2018	The Origins of Ebbing	Self
2017	Wilson	Wilson
2017	LBJ	Lyndon B. Johnson
2017	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Bill Willoughby
2017	The Glass Castle	Rex Walls
2017	War for the Planet of the Apes	The Colonel
2017	Lost in London	Woody Harrelson
2017	Shock and Awe	Jonathan Landay
2016	Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2	Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2016	Triple 9	Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
2016	Now You See Me 2	Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
2016	The Duel	Abraham Brant
2016	The Edge of Seventeen	Mr. Bruner
2016	Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows	Self
2015	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	Haymitch Abernathy
2015	The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1	Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2014	Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2014	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	Haymitch Abernathy
2013	Now You See Me	Merritt McKinney
2013	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Haymitch Abernathy
2013	Out of the Furnace	Harlan DeGroat
2013	Free Birds	Jake (voice)
2013	David Blaine: Real or Magic	Self
2012	The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games	Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2012	The Hunger Games	Haymitch Abernathy
2012	Game Change	Steve Schmidt
2012	Seven Psychopaths	Charlie Costello
2012	How to Make Money Selling Drugs	Self
2012	Who Bombed Judi Bari?	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2011	Friends with Benefits	Tommy Bollinger
2011	Rampart	Dave Brown
2011	Ethos	Host
2011	The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique	Self
2011	Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis	Self
2010	Bunraku	The Bartender
2010	2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic	Self
2010	The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective	Self
2009	Management	Jango
2009	The Messenger	Tony Stone
2009	Defendor	Arthur Poppington / Defendor
2009	2012	Charlie Frost
2009	Zombieland	Tallahassee
2009	Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days	Self
2009	Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…	Self
2008	Seven Pounds	Ezra Turner
2008	TransSiberian	Roy
2008	Semi-Pro	Monix
2008	Surfer, Dude	Jack
2008	Sleepwalking	Randall
2008	Hempsters: Plant the Seed	Himself
2008	No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes	Self
2008	Burma: It Can't Wait	Divo
2007	No Country for Old Men	Carson Wells
2007	The Walker	Carter Page III
2007	Battle in Seattle	Dale
2007	The Grand	One Eyed Jack Faro
2007	Nanking	Bob Wilson
2007	Raw for Life	Self
2006	A Scanner Darkly	Ernie Luckman
2006	A Prairie Home Companion	Dusty
2006	One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'	Self / Luckman
2006	The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales	Self
2005	The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio	Kelly Ryan
2005	The Big White	Raymond Barnell
2005	North Country	Bill White
2005	The Outsider	Self
2004	After the Sunset	Stan Lloyd
2004	She Hate Me	Leland Powell
2003	Scorched	Jason 'Woods' Valley
2003	Anger Management	Galaxia / Security Guard Gary
2003	Go Further	Self
2003	Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special	Host
2003	This So-Called Disaster	Taxi Driver
2002	Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film	Narrator (voice)
2001	American Saint	Self
2000	The Directors: Milos Forman	Self
1999	Play It to the Bone	Vince Boudreau
1999	Grass	Narrator (voice)
1999	EDtv	Ray Pekurny
1999	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	Woody Harrelson
1998	The Hi-Lo Country	Big Boy Matson
1998	Palmetto	Harry Barber
1998	The Thin Red Line	Sgt. William Keck
1998	Welcome to Hollywood	Woody Harrelson
1997	Wag the Dog	Sergeant William Schumann
1997	Welcome to Sarajevo	Flynn
1996	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Larry Flynt
1996	Kingpin	Roy Munson
1996	The Sunchaser	Dr. Michael Reynolds
1995	Money Train	Charlie
1994	Natural Born Killers	Mickey Knox
1994	The Cowboy Way	Pepper Lewis
1994	I'll Do Anything	Ground Zero Hero
1993	Indecent Proposal	David Murphy
1993	For Our Children	Self
1992	White Men Can't Jump	Billy Hoyle
1991	Doc Hollywood	Hank Gordon
1991	Ted & Venus	Homeless Vietnam Veteran
1991	L.A. Story	Harris' Boss (uncredited)
1990	Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme	Lou the Lamb
1990	Cool Blue	Dustin
1990	The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990	Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special	Self
1990	The Earth Day Special	Woody Boyd
1989	True Believer	Man in Dodd's office
1988	Killer Instinct	Charlie Long
1988	Mickey's 60th Birthday	Woody Boyd
1988	She's Having a Baby	Woody Harrelson (uncredited)
1987	Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim	Self
1987	Bay Coven	Slater
1986	Wildcats	Krushinski
1978	Harper Valley P.T.A.	Extra (uncredited)
	Girl from the North Country	Nick Laine
	Sailing
	Lips Like Sugar	John Carr
	Fruitloops
	The Man with the Miraculous Hands	Felix Kersten
	Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life	Self (archive footage)

Year	TV Show	Role
2023	White House Plumbers	E. Howard Hunt
2021	The Freak Brothers	Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice)
2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show
2018	Basketball: A Love Story	Self (archive footage)
2017	The Nineties	Self (archive footage)
2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self
2014	True Detective	Martin Hart
2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self
2013	The Frame	Haymitch Abernathy
2012	Honest Trailers	Haymitch Abernathy (archive footage)
2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self
2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003	Celebrities Uncensored	Self
2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self
2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self
2000	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Woody Harrelson
1998	Will & Grace	Nathan
1996	The Daily Show	Self
1996	Spin City	Tommy Dugan
1996	E! True Hollywood Story
1993	Frasier	Woody Boyd
1992	MTV Movie & TV Awards	Self / Presenter
1992	HBO First Look
1989	The Simpsons	Woody Boyd (voice)
1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988	Dear John	Richard
1982	Cheers	Woody Boyd
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self
1953	The Oscars	Self
	Brothers	Woody Harrelson