Woody Harrelson
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).
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Now You See Me: Now You Don't as Merritt McKinney
- 2025 · Animal Farm as Boxer (voice)
- 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 · White House Plumbers as E. Howard Hunt
- 2023 · Champions as Marcus
- 2022 · The Man from Toronto as The Man From Toronto
- 2022 · Triangle of Sadness as The Captain
- 2021 · The Freak Brothers as Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice)
- 2021 · Venom: Let There Be Carnage as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
- 2021 · Kate as Varrick
- 2019 · Midway as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
- 2019 · Zombieland: Double Tap as Tallahassee
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2019 · The Highwaymen as Manny Gault
- 2018 · Venom as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
- 2018 · Basketball: A Love Story as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Solo: A Star Wars Story as Tobias Beckett
- 2017 · Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Bill Willoughby
- 2017 · The Glass Castle as Rex Walls
- 2017 · War for the Planet of the Apes as The Colonel
- 2017 · The Nineties as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Wilson as Wilson
- 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 · Triple 9 as Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
- 2015 · The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Haymitch Abernathy
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2014 · The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Haymitch Abernathy
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · True Detective as Martin Hart
- 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
- 2013 · The Frame as Haymitch Abernathy
- 2012 · Seven Psychopaths as Charlie Costello
- 2012 · The Hunger Games as Haymitch Abernathy
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Haymitch Abernathy (archive footage)
- 2011 · Rampart as Dave Brown
- 2011 · Friends with Benefits as Tommy Bollinger
- 2009 · 2012 as Charlie Frost
- 2009 · Zombieland as Tallahassee
- 2008 · Seven Pounds as Ezra Turner
- 2008 · Semi-Pro as Monix
- 2007 · No Country for Old Men as Carson Wells
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · A Scanner Darkly as Ernie Luckman
- 2005 · The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio as Kelly Ryan
- 2005 · North Country as Bill White
- 2004 · After the Sunset as Stan Lloyd
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Celebrities Uncensored as Self
- 2003 · Anger Management as Galaxia / Security Guard Gary
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as
- 2000 · Curb Your Enthusiasm as Woody Harrelson
- 1999 · Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me as Woody Harrelson
- 1999 · EDtv as Ray Pekurny
- 1998 · The Thin Red Line as Sgt. William Keck
- 1998 · Will & Grace as Nathan
- 1997 · Wag the Dog as Sergeant William Schumann
- 1996 · The People vs. Larry Flynt as Larry Flynt
- 1996 · Spin City as Tommy Dugan
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · Kingpin as Roy Munson
- 1995 · Money Train as Charlie
- 1994 · Natural Born Killers as Mickey Knox
- 1993 · Frasier as Woody Boyd
- 1993 · Indecent Proposal as David Murphy
- 1992 · HBO First Look as
- 1992 · MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1992 · White Men Can't Jump as Billy Hoyle
- 1991 · Doc Hollywood as Hank Gordon
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Woody Boyd (voice)
- 1988 · Dear John as Richard
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1982 · Cheers as Woody Boyd
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- Future · Brothers as Woody Harrelson
- 2025 · Ella McCay as
- 2023 · Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short as Self
- 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)
- 2020 · Kiss the Ground as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · The Men of Midway as Self
- 2020 · Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission as Self
- 2019 · Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" as Archie Bunker
- 2019 · Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" as Archie Bunker
- 2018 · The Origins of Ebbing as Self
- 2017 · Shock and Awe as Jonathan Landay
- 2017 · LBJ as Lyndon B. Johnson
- 2017 · Lost in London as Woody Harrelson
- 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
- 2015 · The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
- 2014 · Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
- 2013 · David Blaine: Real or Magic as Self
- 2012 · How to Make Money Selling Drugs as Self
- 2012 · The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self (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 · The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique as Self
- 2011 · Ethos as Host
- 2010 · Bunraku as The Bartender
- 2010 · The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective as Self
- 2010 · 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic as Self
- 2009 · The Messenger as Tony Stone
- 2009 · Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
- 2009 · Defendor as Arthur Poppington / Defendor
- 2009 · Management as Jango
- 2009 · Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days as Self
- 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 · TransSiberian as Roy
- 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 · The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales as Self
- 2006 · A Prairie Home Companion as Dusty
- 2005 · The Outsider as Self
- 2005 · The Big White as Raymond Barnell
- 2004 · Linklater: St. Richard of Austin as Self
- 2004 · She Hate Me as Leland Powell
- 2003 · Scorched as Jason 'Woods' Valley
- 2003 · Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special as Host
- 2003 · Go Further as Self
- 2002 · Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film as Narrator (voice)
- 1994 · I'll Do Anything as Ground Zero Hero
- 1991 · Ted & Venus as Homeless Vietnam Veteran
- 1990 · Cool Blue as Dustin
- Future · Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · This So-Called Disaster as Taxi Driver
- 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)
- 1998 · The Hi-Lo Country as Big Boy Matson
- 1998 · Palmetto as Harry Barber
- 1997 · Welcome to Sarajevo as Flynn
- 1996 · The Sunchaser as Dr. Michael Reynolds
- 1994 · The Cowboy Way as Pepper Lewis
- 1993 · For Our Children as Self
- 1991 · L.A. Story as Harris' Boss (uncredited)
- 1990 · The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? as
- 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
- 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)
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Lips Like Sugar as John Carr
- Future · Girl from the North Country as Nick Laine
- Future · Sailing as
- Future · The Man with the Miraculous Hands as Felix Kersten
- Future · Fruitloops as