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).
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
(Self - Haymitch Abernathy)
Natural Born Killers
(Mickey Knox)
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
(Self - Haymitch Abernathy)
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
(Self (Haymitch Abernathy))
The Hi-Lo Country
(Big Boy Matson)
Wag the Dog
(Sergeant William Schumann)
White Men Can't Jump
(Billy Hoyle)
The People vs. Larry Flynt
(Larry Flynt)
After the Sunset
(Stan Lloyd)
A Scanner Darkly
(Ernie Luckman)
Scorched
(Jason 'Woods' Valley)
Indecent Proposal
(David Murphy)
Bunraku
(The Bartender)
Play It to the Bone
(Vince Boudreau)
Money Train
(Charlie)
Grass
(Narrator (voice))
EDtv
(Ray Pekurny)
Kingpin
(Roy Munson)
Management
(Jango)
Girl from the North Country
(Nick Laine)
Triangle of Sadness
(The Captain)
Seven Pounds
(Ezra Turner)
TransSiberian
(Roy)
Doc Hollywood
(Hank Gordon)
No Country for Old Men
(Carson Wells)
Palmetto
(Harry Barber)
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
(Narrator (voice))
The Thin Red Line
(Sgt. William Keck)
Anger Management
(Galaxia / Security Guard Gary)
A Prairie Home Companion
(Dusty)
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
(Kelly Ryan)
The Walker
(Carter Page III)
The Big White
(Raymond Barnell)
Semi-Pro
(Monix)
Go Further
(Self)
North Country
(Bill White)
Battle in Seattle
(Dale)
Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
(Self - Host)
The Messenger
(Tony Stone)
Defendor
(Arthur Poppington / Defendor)
Surfer, Dude
(Jack)
2012
(Charlie Frost)
Wildcats
(Krushinski)
Sleepwalking
(Randall)
Welcome to Sarajevo
(Flynn)
The Grand
(One Eyed Jack Faro)
The Sunchaser
(Dr. Michael Reynolds)
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
(Lou the Lamb)
Sailing
Nanking
(Bob Wilson)
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
(Himself)
Zombieland
(Tallahassee)
The Cowboy Way
(Pepper Lewis)
The Hunger Games
(Haymitch Abernathy)
Friends with Benefits
(Tommy Bollinger)
Champions
(Marcus)
Game Change
(Steve Schmidt)
Cool Blue
(Dustin)
Common Ground
(Self)
Rampart
(Dave Brown)
Now You See Me
(Merritt McKinney)
Ethos
(Host)
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
(Self)
Ted & Venus
(Homeless Vietnam Veteran)
Seven Psychopaths
(Charlie Costello)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
(Haymitch Abernathy)
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
(Self)
Raw for Life
(Self)
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
(Self)
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique
(Self)
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
(Self)
Lips Like Sugar
(John Carr)
Bay Coven
(Slater)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
(Haymitch Abernathy)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
(Haymitch Abernathy)
The Outsider
(Self)
Out of the Furnace
(Harlan DeGroat)
Last Breath
(Duncan Allcock)
Free Birds
(Jake (voice))
David Blaine: Real or Magic
(Self)
Ella McCay
(Eddie McCay)
Suncoast
(Paul)
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
(Merritt McKinney)
Triple 9
(Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen)
Now You See Me 2
(Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney)
The Men of Midway
(Self)
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
(Self)
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
The Duel
(Abraham Brant)
Wilson
(Wilson)
Killer Instinct
(Charlie Long)
LBJ
(Lyndon B. Johnson)
L.A. Story
(Harris' Boss (uncredited))
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
(Self)
Fly Me to the Moon
(Moe Berkus)
The Edge of Seventeen
(Mr. Bruner)
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
(Self)
For Our Children
(Self)
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
(Self)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(Bill Willoughby)
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
The Glass Castle
(Rex Walls)
War for the Planet of the Apes
(The Colonel)
Mickey's 60th Birthday
(Woody Boyd)
The Electric State
(Mr. Peanut (voice))
Solo: A Star Wars Story
(Tobias Beckett)
Lost in London
(Woody Harrelson)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
(Woody Harrelson)
She's Having a Baby
(Woody Harrelson (uncredited))
Harper Valley P.T.A.
(Extra (uncredited))
This So-Called Disaster
(Taxi Driver)
I'll Do Anything
(Ground Zero Hero)
True Believer
(Man in Dodd's office)
Welcome to Hollywood
(Woody Harrelson)
She Hate Me
(Leland Powell)
Shock and Awe
(Jonathan Landay)
The Highwaymen
(Manny Gault)
Zombieland: Double Tap
(Tallahassee)
Midway
(Admiral Chester W. Nimitz)
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
(Self)
Venom
(Cletus Kasady / Carnage)
No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
(Self)
Breakthrough
(Narrator (voice))
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
(Cletus Kasady / Carnage)
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
(Self / Luckman)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
(Archie Bunker)
The Origins of Ebbing
(Self)
Fruitloops
Kate
(Varrick)
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
(Self - Haymitch Abernathy)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
(Archie Bunker)
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
(Self)
The Man from Toronto
(The Man from Toronto)
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
(Self)
Burma: It Can't Wait
(Divo)
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
(Self)
Kiss the Ground
(Self - Narrator (voice))
The Man with the Miraculous Hands
(Felix Kersten)
American Saint
(Self)
The Earth Day Special
(Woody Boyd)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
(Narrator (voice))
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
(Self)
The Directors: Milos Forman
(Self)
Animal Farm
(Boxer (voice))
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
(Self)
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
(Self)
Kuleana
(Narrator (voice))
Full Phil
(Philip Doom)
Zombieland 3
(Tallahassee)
True Detective: Season One
(Martin Hart)
Cheers
(Woody Boyd)
The Simpsons
(Woody Boyd (voice))
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
(Self)
The Daily Show
(Self)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
(Self)
Spin City
(Tommy Dugan)
E! True Hollywood Story
Frasier
(Woody Boyd)
Will & Grace
(Nathan)
Celebrities Uncensored
(Self)
Basketball: A Love Story
(Self (archive footage))
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
True Detective
(Martin Hart)
The Freak Brothers
(Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice))
Late Night with Seth Meyers
(Self)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
(Woody Harrelson)
MTV Movie & TV Awards
(Self - Presenter)
The Graham Norton Show
(Self)
The Nineties
(Self (archive footage))
Saturday Night Live
(Self - Host)
The Frame
(Haymitch Abernathy)
Dear John
(Richard)
Brothers
(Woody Harrelson)
Saturday Night Live
(Self - Cameo (uncredited))
White House Plumbers
(E. Howard Hunt)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
(Self)
Real Time with Bill Maher
(Self)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
HBO First Look
The Oscars
(Self)
Saturday Night Live
(Self)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(Self)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
(Self)
Hot Ones
(Self)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Nominee)
Lips Like Sugar
(Producer)
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
(Executive Producer)
Champions
(Executive Producer)
Lost in London
(Writer)
Lost in London
(Director)
Lost in London
(Producer)
Sailing
(Producer)
The Highwaymen
(Executive Producer)
The Panama Deception
(Thanks)
Animal Farm
(Executive Producer)
True Detective: Season One
(Executive Producer)
True Detective
(Executive Producer)
White House Plumbers
(Executive Producer)