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, 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).
182 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 182
The Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Daily Show
1996
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Frasier
1993
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
Cheers
1982
True Detective
2014
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Will & Grace
1998
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Hot Ones
2015
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
Spin City
1996
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Animal Farm
2026
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
No Country for Old Men
2007
The Oscars
1953
Dear John
1988
2012
2009
Now You See Me
2013
Venom
2018
Now You See Me 2
2016
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
Basketball: A Love Story
2018
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021
Zombieland
2009
HBO First Look
1992
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018
The Hunger Games
2012
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
Midway
2019
The Electric State
2025
Indecent Proposal
1993
Zombieland: Double Tap
2019
Friends with Benefits
2011
The Nineties
2017
The Thin Red Line
1998
The Frame
2013
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999
White House Plumbers
2023
Natural Born Killers
1994
Triangle of Sadness
2022
Anger Management
2003
Ella McCay
2025
Last Breath
2025
Seven Pounds
2008
Fly Me to the Moon
2024
Triple 9
2016
Seven Psychopaths
2012
The Edge of Seventeen
2016
Money Train
1995
The Man from Toronto
2022
A Scanner Darkly
2006
Free Birds
2013
Wag the Dog
1997
Out of the Furnace
2013
After the Sunset
2004
North Country
2005
Kate
2021
The Glass Castle
2017
The Freak Brothers
2021
EDtv
1999
White Men Can't Jump
1992
The Highwaymen
2019
Semi-Pro
2008
Suncoast
2024
The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996
Kingpin
1996
Bunraku
2010
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016
Champions
2023
Doc Hollywood
1991
Management
2009
Rampart
2011
The Earth Day Special
1990
The Messenger
2009
Defendor
2009
Battle in Seattle
2007
L.A. Story
1991
TransSiberian
2008
Wildcats
1986
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019
She Hate Me
2004
The Sunchaser
1996
The Cowboy Way
1994
Palmetto
1998
Shock and Awe
2017
Wilson
2017
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
She's Having a Baby
1988
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
1990
The Grand
2007
Surfer, Dude
2008
Lost in London
2017
The Duel
2016
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013
The Big White
2005
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
I'll Do Anything
1994
Game Change
2012
LBJ
2017
Scorched
2003
Kiss the Ground
2020
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
2005
Brothers
—
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
Sleepwalking
2008
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
1987
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
Full Phil
2026
Ted & Venus
1991
True Believer
1989
The Walker
2007
Bay Coven
1987
Welcome to Sarajevo
1997
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
1990
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
2016
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2019
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988
Play It to the Bone
1999
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006
No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
2008
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
2023
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
2011
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
2022
Nanking
2007
Common Ground
2023
Lips Like Sugar
—
Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
2003
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
2012
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
2020
Grass
1999
The Outsider
2005
Girl from the North Country
—
Cool Blue
1990
Harper Valley P.T.A.
1978
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
2012
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006
The Men of Midway
2020
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
2004
Go Further
2003
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
The Origins of Ebbing
2018
The Man with the Miraculous Hands
—
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
2021
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
Killer Instinct
1988
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
2009
Ethos
2011
For Our Children
1993
Raw for Life
2007
Sailing
—
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
2008
Burma: It Can't Wait
2008
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique
2011
Fruitloops
—
This So-Called Disaster
2003
American Saint
2001
The Cackling of the Dodos
—
Kuleana
2025
Breakthrough
2019
The Hempire Strikes Back
2008