Woody Harrelson
Acting
🎂 1961-07-23
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson 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).
Cast credits(179)
Woody Boyd (voice)
1989
Self
1996
Martin Hart
2014
Self
2007
Woody Boyd
1993
Self
2003
Self
1962
Woody Harrelson
2000
Self
2014
Self
2019
Self - Host
1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Self
1975
Woody Boyd
1982
2015
Self
2015
Nathan
1998
Carson Wells
2007
Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2018
Haymitch Abernathy
2014
Self
2003
Self
1988
Tommy Dugan
1996
Charlie Frost
2009
Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2021
Self
2003
Merritt McKinney
2013
Haymitch Abernathy
2013
Mr. Peanut (voice)
2025
The Colonel
2017
Woody Harrelson
1999
Merritt McKinney
2025
Self
1953
Haymitch Abernathy
2015
Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
2016
Tallahassee
2009
Tommy Bollinger
2011
Haymitch Abernathy
2012
David Murphy
1993
Tobias Beckett
2018
Duncan Allcock
2025
Richard
1988
Bill Willoughby
2017
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
2019
Self - Presenter
1992
Mickey Knox
1994
1992
Tallahassee
2019
Moe Berkus
2024
Galaxia / Security Guard Gary
2003
Self (archive footage)
2018
The Captain
2022
Ezra Turner
2008
Manny Gault
2019
Sgt. William Keck
1998
Charlie Costello
2012
Marcus
2023
Stan Lloyd
2004
Mr. Bruner
2016
The Man From Toronto
2022
Billy Hoyle
1992
Roy Munson
1996
E. Howard Hunt
2023
Jake (voice)
2013
Haymitch Abernathy
2013
Charlie
1995
Self (archive footage)
2017
Harlan DeGroat
2013
Dave Brown
2011
Varrick
2021
The Bartender
2010
Paul
2024
Bill White
2005
Monix
2008
Larry Flynt
1996
Randall
2008
One Eyed Jack Faro
2007
Abraham Brant
2016
Ernie Luckman
2006
Sergeant William Schumann
1997
Woody Harrelson
2017
Krushinski
1986
Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
2016
Dusty
2006
Rex Walls
2017
Self
2004
Tony Stone
2009
Roy
2008
Dale
2007
Harris' Boss (uncredited)
1991
Hank Gordon
1991
Self
2023
Ray Pekurny
1999
Self
2025
Dr. Michael Reynolds
1996
Self
2010
Eddie McCay
2025
Raymond Barnell
2005
Arthur Poppington / Defendor
2009
Steve Schmidt
2012
Narrator (voice)
2021
Self - Haymitch Abernathy
2015
Narrator (voice)
2020
Woody Harrelson (uncredited)
1988
Jonathan Landay
2017
Woody Boyd
1990
Self
2016
Jack
2008
Self / Luckman
2006
Self - Haymitch Abernathy
2012
Vince Boudreau
1999
Lyndon B. Johnson
2017
Kelly Ryan
2005
Boxer (voice)
2025
Self
2023
Leland Powell
2004
Self
2018
Bob Wilson
2007
Man in Dodd's office
1989
Flynn
1997
Self
2006
Pepper Lewis
1994
Woody Harrelson
2000
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012
Jango
2009
Self
1993
Wilson
2017
Self - Haymitch Abernathy
2014
Dustin
1990
Taxi Driver
2003
Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice)
2021
Self
2013
Carter Page III
2007
Ground Zero Hero
1994
Host
2011
Harry Barber
1998
Archie Bunker
2019
Self
2020
Charlie Long
1988
Jason 'Woods' Valley
2003
Self
2011
Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2016
Self
2022
Felix Kersten
Self
1987
Self
2010
1990
Narrator (voice)
1999
Divo
2008
Big Boy Matson
1998
Extra (uncredited)
1978
Nick Laine
2024
Woody Harrelson
Woody Boyd
1988
John Carr
Archie Bunker
2019
Homeless Vietnam Veteran
1991
Self
2020
Lou the Lamb
1990
Slater
1987
Self
2005
Narrator (voice)
2022
Himself
2008
Self
2000
Self
2011
Self
1990
Self - Host
2003
Self
2003
Self
2009
1996
Narrator (voice)
2002
Self
2001
Self
2008
Self
2009
Self
2007
Self
2012
Self
2003
