Woody Harrelson 1961 64

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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2025 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)

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6.40 Crime 22

6.39 Thriller 19

6.30 TV Movie 11

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