Woody Harrelson
Acting • Born 1961-07-23
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).
Filmography
185 credits
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Movie • 2012
Self - Haymitch Abernathy
Natural Born Killers
Movie • 1994
Mickey Knox
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Movie • 2014
Self - Haymitch Abernathy
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
Movie • 2016
Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
The Hi-Lo Country
Movie • 1998
Big Boy Matson
Wag the Dog
Movie • 1997
Sergeant William Schumann
White Men Can't Jump
Movie • 1992
Billy Hoyle
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Movie • 1996
Larry Flynt
After the Sunset
Movie • 2004
Stan Lloyd
A Scanner Darkly
Movie • 2006
Ernie Luckman
Scorched
Movie • 2003
Jason 'Woods' Valley
Indecent Proposal
Movie • 1993
David Murphy
Bunraku
Movie • 2010
The Bartender
Play It to the Bone
Movie • 1999
Vince Boudreau
Money Train
Movie • 1995
Charlie
Grass
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
EDtv
Movie • 1999
Ray Pekurny
Kingpin
Movie • 1996
Roy Munson
Management
Movie • 2009
Jango
Girl from the North Country
Movie
Nick Laine
Triangle of Sadness
Movie • 2022
The Captain
Seven Pounds
Movie • 2008
Ezra Turner
TransSiberian
Movie • 2008
Roy
Doc Hollywood
Movie • 1991
Hank Gordon
No Country for Old Men
Movie • 2007
Carson Wells
Palmetto
Movie • 1998
Harry Barber
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
Movie • 2021
Narrator (voice)
The Thin Red Line
Movie • 1998
Sgt. William Keck
Anger Management
Movie • 2003
Galaxia / Security Guard Gary
A Prairie Home Companion
Movie • 2006
Dusty
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Movie • 2005
Kelly Ryan
The Walker
Movie • 2007
Carter Page III
The Big White
Movie • 2005
Raymond Barnell
Semi-Pro
Movie • 2008
Monix
Go Further
Movie • 2003
Self
North Country
Movie • 2005
Bill White
Battle in Seattle
Movie • 2007
Dale
Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
Movie • 2003
Self - Host
The Messenger
Movie • 2009
Tony Stone
Defendor
Movie • 2009
Arthur Poppington / Defendor
Surfer, Dude
Movie • 2008
Jack
2012
Movie • 2009
Charlie Frost
Wildcats
Movie • 1986
Krushinski
Sleepwalking
Movie • 2008
Randall
Welcome to Sarajevo
Movie • 1997
Flynn
The Grand
Movie • 2007
One Eyed Jack Faro
The Sunchaser
Movie • 1996
Dr. Michael Reynolds
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
Movie • 1990
Lou the Lamb
Sailing
Movie
Nanking
Movie • 2007
Bob Wilson
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
Movie • 2008
Himself
Zombieland
Movie • 2009
Tallahassee
The Cowboy Way
Movie • 1994
Pepper Lewis
The Hunger Games
Movie • 2012
Haymitch Abernathy
Friends with Benefits
Movie • 2011
Tommy Bollinger
Champions
Movie • 2023
Marcus
Game Change
Movie • 2012
Steve Schmidt
Cool Blue
Movie • 1990
Dustin
Common Ground
Movie • 2023
Self
Rampart
Movie • 2011
Dave Brown
Now You See Me
Movie • 2013
Merritt McKinney
Ethos
Movie • 2011
Host
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
Movie • 1987
Self
Ted & Venus
Movie • 1991
Homeless Vietnam Veteran
Seven Psychopaths
Movie • 2012
Charlie Costello
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Movie • 2013
Haymitch Abernathy
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
Movie • 2009
Self
Raw for Life
Movie • 2007
Self
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
Movie • 2012
Self
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique
Movie • 2011
Self
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
Movie • 2011
Self
Lips Like Sugar
Movie
John Carr
Bay Coven
Movie • 1987
Slater
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Movie • 2015
Haymitch Abernathy
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Movie • 2014
Haymitch Abernathy
The Outsider
Movie • 2005
Self
Out of the Furnace
Movie • 2013
Harlan DeGroat
Last Breath
Movie • 2025
Duncan Allcock
Free Birds
Movie • 2013
Jake (voice)
David Blaine: Real or Magic
Movie • 2013
Self
Ella McCay
Movie • 2025
Eddie McCay
Suncoast
Movie • 2024
Paul
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Movie • 2025
Merritt McKinney
Triple 9
Movie • 2016
Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
Now You See Me 2
Movie • 2016
Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
The Men of Midway
Movie • 2020
Self
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
Movie • 2020
Self
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Movie • 1990
The Duel
Movie • 2016
Abraham Brant
Wilson
Movie • 2017
Wilson
Killer Instinct
Movie • 1988
Charlie Long
LBJ
Movie • 2017
Lyndon B. Johnson
L.A. Story
Movie • 1991
Harris' Boss (uncredited)
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
Movie • 2022
Self
Fly Me to the Moon
Movie • 2024
Moe Berkus
The Edge of Seventeen
Movie • 2016
Mr. Bruner
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
Movie • 2016
Self
For Our Children
Movie • 1993
Self
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
Movie • 2023
Self
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Movie • 2017
Willoughby
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Glass Castle
Movie • 2017
Rex Walls
War for the Planet of the Apes
Movie • 2017
The Colonel
Mickey's 60th Birthday
Movie • 1988
Woody Boyd
The Electric State
Movie • 2025
Mr. Peanut (voice)
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Movie • 2018
Tobias Beckett
Lost in London
Movie • 2017
Woody Harrelson
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Movie • 1999
Woody Harrelson
She's Having a Baby
Movie • 1988
Woody Harrelson (uncredited)
Harper Valley P.T.A.
Movie • 1978
Extra (uncredited)
This So-Called Disaster
Movie • 2003
Taxi Driver
I'll Do Anything
Movie • 1994
Ground Zero Hero
True Believer
Movie • 1989
Man in Dodd's office
Welcome to Hollywood
Movie • 2000
Woody Harrelson
She Hate Me
Movie • 2004
Leland Powell
Shock and Awe
Movie • 2017
Jonathan Landay
The Highwaymen
Movie • 2019
Manny Gault
Zombieland: Double Tap
Movie • 2019
Tallahassee
Midway
Movie • 2019
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Movie • 2009
Self
Venom
Movie • 2018
Cletus Kasady / Carnage
No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
Movie • 2008
Self
Breakthrough
Movie • 2019
Narrator (voice)
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Movie • 2021
Cletus Kasady / Carnage
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
Movie • 2006
Self / Luckman
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
Movie • 2019
Archie Bunker
The Origins of Ebbing
Movie • 2018
Self
Fruitloops
Movie
Kate
Movie • 2021
Varrick
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Movie • 2015
Self - Haymitch Abernathy
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Movie • 2019
Archie Bunker
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
Movie • 2010
Self
The Man from Toronto
Movie • 2022
The Man from Toronto
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
Movie • 2010
Self
Burma: It Can't Wait
Movie • 2008
Divo
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
Movie • 1990
Self
Kiss the Ground
Movie • 2020
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Man with the Miraculous Hands
Movie
Felix Kersten
American Saint
Movie • 2001
Self
The Earth Day Special
Movie • 1990
Woody Boyd
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Movie • 2025
Self
The Directors: Milos Forman
Movie • 2000
Self
Animal Farm
Movie • 2026
Boxer (voice)
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
Movie • 2006
Self
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
Movie • 2004
Self
Kuleana
Movie • 2025
Narrator (voice)
Full Phil
Movie
Philip Doom
Making True Detective
Movie • 2013
Self / Martin Hart
Cheers
TV • 1982
Woody Boyd
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Woody Boyd (voice)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self
Spin City
TV • 1996
Tommy Dugan
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Frasier
TV • 1993
Woody Boyd
Will & Grace
TV • 1998
Nathan
Celebrities Uncensored
TV • 2003
Self
Basketball: A Love Story
TV • 2018
Self (archive footage)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
True Detective
TV • 2014
Martin Hart
The Freak Brothers
TV • 2021
Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Curb Your Enthusiasm
TV • 2000
Woody Harrelson
MTV Movie & TV Awards
TV • 1992
Self - Presenter
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Nineties
TV • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
The Frame
TV • 2013
Haymitch Abernathy
Dear John
TV • 1988
Richard
Brothers
TV
Woody Harrelson
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
White House Plumbers
TV • 2023
E. Howard Hunt
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV • 2003
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
HBO First Look
TV • 1992
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
Hot Ones
TV • 2015
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self (uncredited)