Woody Harrelson

American actor

Photo by: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin R. Pacheco · Public Domain · Wikimedia Commons

Born:July 23, 1961

Age:65

Zodiac Sign:Leo

Children:4

Born in:Midland, United States

Languages:English

Television Actor Screenwriter Film Actor Theatre Director Film Director Stage Actor Voice Actor Actor Film Producer

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Famous For

Movies & TV

No Country for Old Men2012The Hunger GamesVenomThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Awards

Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male (2009)Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (2008)Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (1989)

Woody Harrelson

American actor

Biography

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor. He first became known for his role as charmingly naive 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 has received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), and 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), 2012 (2009), Seven Psychopaths (2012), The Edge of Seventeen (2016), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), Triangle of Sadness (2022), and Suncoast (2024). He also played Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), Chase McKinney / Merritt McKinney in the Now You See Me film series (2013–), and Tobias Beckett in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). Harrelson received further Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayal of Steve Schmidt in the HBO film Game Change (2012) and detective Marty Hart 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) and a fictionalized version of himself in the Apple TV comedy series Brothers (2026).

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Photos

191020-N-NU281-1028 PEARL HARBOR (Oct. 20, 2019) Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Devin M. Langer, left, interviews actor Woody Harrelson at the red-carpet premiere of the film "Midway" onboard Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH). The stars of the film visited JBPHH Sailors and Airmen before a special screening of the movie.The production aims to remind viewers just how precariously America’s future teetered in the early 1940s, and what cost, sacrifice and luck were required to achieve a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin R. Pacheco/Released)

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Actor Woody Harrelson at a red carpet at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.

Woody Harrelson at the Toronto International Film Festival 2012.

1988 Emmy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. Scanned from the original 35MM film negative.

Sergeant Major of the Army, Gene McKinney, meets with actor Woody Harrelson. (Released to Public)

Actor Woody Harrelson talks to the Austin media before a screening of his new movie, LBJ, at the LBJ Presidential Library. On Saturday evening October 22, 2016, the LBJ Presidential Library held a sneak peek of Rob Reiner's new film LBJ, starring Woody Harrelson as the 36th president. The film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, chronicles the life and times of Lyndon Johnson who would inherit the presidency at one of the most fraught moments in American history. Following the screening, director Rob Reiner, actor Woody Harrelson, and writer Joey Hartstone joined LBJ Library Director Mark Updegrove on stage for a conversation about the film.