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