Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

July 22, 1961 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Midland, Texas, USA

Woody Harrelson

Biography

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Woody Harrelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon

Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss"

No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes

One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

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