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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Primarily2025 Ella McCay
2025 Now You See Me: Now You Don't as Merritt McKinney
2025 Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life as Self (archive footage)
2025 Animal Farm as Old Major (voice) Executive Producer
2025 Lips Like Sugar as John Carr Producer
2025 The Man with the Miraculous Hands as Felix Kersten
2025 Fruitloops
2025 Girl from the North Country as Nick Laine
2025 Sailing Producer
2025 The Electric State as Mr. Peanut (voice)
2025 Last Breath as Duncan Allcock
2025 Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
2024 Fly Me to the Moon as Moe Berkus
2024 Suncoast as Paul
2023 Common Ground as Self
2023 Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short as Self
2023 Champions as Marcus Executive Producer
2022 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Executive Producer
2022 The Man from Toronto as The Man From Toronto
2022 Triangle of Sadness as The Captain
2022 Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon as Self
2022 Breakthrough as Narrator (voice)
2021 Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story as Narrator (voice)
2021 Venom: Let There Be Carnage as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2021 Kate as Varrick
2020 Kiss the Ground as Narrator (voice)
2020 Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission as Self
2020 The Men of Midway as Self
2019 Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" as Archie Bunker
2019 Midway as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
2019 Zombieland: Double Tap as Tallahassee
2019 Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" as Archie Bunker
2019 The Highwaymen as Manny Gault Executive Producer
2018 Venom as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2018 The Origins of Ebbing as Self
2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story as Tobias Beckett
2017 Shock and Awe as Jonathan Landay
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Bill Willoughby
2017 LBJ as Lyndon B. Johnson
2017 The Glass Castle as Rex Walls
2017 War for the Planet of the Apes as The Colonel
2017 Wilson as Wilson
2017 Lost in London as Woody Harrelson Producer, Director, Writer
2016 The Edge of Seventeen as Mr. Bruner
2016 The Duel as Abraham Brant
2016 Now You See Me 2 as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
2016 Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2016 Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows as Self
2016 Triple 9 as Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Haymitch Abernathy
2015 Song for Someone as Aaron Brown
2015 The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Haymitch Abernathy
2014 Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2014 True Detective Executive Producer
2013 David Blaine: Real or Magic as Self
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Haymitch Abernathy
2013 Out of the Furnace as Harlan DeGroat
2013 Free Birds as Jake (voice)
2013 Now You See Me as Merritt McKinney
2012 Seven Psychopaths as Charlie Costello
2012 How to Make Money Selling Drugs as Self
2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2012 The Hunger Games as Haymitch Abernathy
2012 Who Bombed Judi Bari? as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012 Game Change as Steve Schmidt
2011 Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis as Self
2011 Rampart as Dave Brown
2011 Friends with Benefits as Tommy Bollinger
2011 The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique as Self
2011 Ethos as Host
2010 Bunraku as The Bartender
2010 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic as Self
2010 The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective as Self
2009 The Messenger as Tony Stone
2009 2012 as Charlie Frost
2009 Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
2009 Zombieland as Tallahassee
2009 Defendor as Arthur Poppington / Defendor
2009 Management as Jango
2009 Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days as Self
2008 Seven Pounds as Ezra Turner
2008 Surfer, Dude as Jack
2008 Hempsters: Plant the Seed as Himself
2008 Burma: It Can't Wait as Divo
2008 Sleepwalking as Randall
2008 No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes as Self
2008 Semi-Pro as Monix
2008 TransSiberian as Roy
2007 No Country for Old Men as Carson Wells
2007 Raw for Life as Self
2007 Battle in Seattle as Dale
2007 The Grand as One Eyed Jack Faro
2007 The Walker as Carter Page III
2007 Nanking as Bob Wilson
2006 One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly' as Self / Luckman
2006 A Scanner Darkly as Ernie Luckman
2006 A Prairie Home Companion as Dusty
2005 The Outsider as Self
2005 The Big White as Raymond Barnell
2005 The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio as Kelly Ryan
2005 North Country as Bill White
2004 After the Sunset as Stan Lloyd
2004 She Hate Me as Leland Powell
2003 Scorched as Jason 'Woods' Valley
2003 Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special as Host
2003 Anger Management as Galaxia / Security Guard Gary
2003 Go Further as Self
2003 This So-Called Disaster as Taxi Driver
2002 Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film as Narrator (voice)
2001 American Saint as Self
2000 Welcome to Hollywood as Woody Harrelson
2000 The Directors: Milos Forman as Self
1999 Play It to the Bone as Vince Boudreau
1999 Grass as Narrator (voice)
1999 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me as Woody Harrelson
1999 EDtv as Ray Pekurny
1998 The Hi-Lo Country as Big Boy Matson
1998 The Thin Red Line as Sgt. William Keck
1998 Palmetto as Harry Barber
1997 Wag the Dog as Sergeant William Schumann
1997 Welcome to Sarajevo as Flynn
1996 The People vs. Larry Flynt as Larry Flynt
1996 Kingpin as Roy Munson
1996 The Sunchaser as Dr. Michael Reynolds
1995 Money Train as Charlie
1994 Natural Born Killers as Mickey Knox
1994 The Cowboy Way as Pepper Lewis
1994 I'll Do Anything as Ground Zero Hero
1993 Indecent Proposal as David Murphy
1993 For Our Children as Self
1992 The Panama Deception Thanks
1992 White Men Can't Jump as Billy Hoyle
1991 Ted & Venus as Homeless Vietnam Veteran
1991 Doc Hollywood as Hank Gordon
1991 L.A. Story as Harris' Boss (uncredited)
1990 The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990 Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special as Self
1990 Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme as Lou the Lamb
1990 The Earth Day Special as Woody Boyd
1990 Cool Blue as Dustin
1989 True Believer as Man in Dodd's office
1988 Killer Instinct as Charlie Long
1988 Mickey's 60th Birthday as Woody Boyd
1988 She's Having a Baby as Woody Harrelson (uncredited)
1987 Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim as Self
1987 Bay Coven as Slater
1986 Wildcats as Krushinski
1978 Harper Valley P.T.A. as Extra (uncredited)
7.10 Music 2
7.02 War 5
6.95 Animation 5
6.85 Documentary 29
6.85 History 8
6.79 Science Fiction 13
6.63 Adventure 14
6.51 Fantasy 3
6.50 Action 19
6.49 Drama 50
6.47 Mystery 4
6.45 Family 8
6.40 Crime 22
6.39 Thriller 19
6.30 TV Movie 11
6.29 Western 4
6.16 Comedy 48
6.12 Horror 3
5.99 Romance 11