Woody Harrelson
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, Mis
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).
Born
Jul 23, 1961
Midland, Texas, USA
Known For
Acting
Movies
152 acting
12 crew
Popularity
6.0
Known For
No Country for Old Men
2007
as Carson Wells
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
as Haymitch Abernathy
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
as Haymitch Abernathy
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
as Merritt McKinney
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
as Haymitch Abernathy
Venom
2018
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
The Hunger Games
2012
as Haymitch Abernathy
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017
as The Colonel
Now You See Me
2013
as Merritt McKinney
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