Woody Harrelson
Born July 23, 1961 (Age: 64)
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Midland, Texas, USA
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).
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).
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Filmography
Ella McCay
2025
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as Eddie McCay
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Age: 64
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
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as Merritt McKinney
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Age: 64
Last Breath
2025
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as Duncan Allcock
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Age: 63
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
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as Self
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Age: 63
Fly Me to the Moon
2024
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as Moe Berkus
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Age: 62
Common Ground
2023
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as Self
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Age: 62
Champions
2023
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as Marcus
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Age: 61
Triangle of Sadness
2022
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as The Captain
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Age: 61
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021
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as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
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Age: 60
Midway
2019
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as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
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Age: 58
Zombieland: Double Tap
2019
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as Tallahassee
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Age: 58
Venom
2018
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as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
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Age: 57
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018
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as Tobias Beckett
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Age: 56
Shock and Awe
2017
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as Jonathan Landay
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Age: 56
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017
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as Willoughby
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Age: 56
LBJ
2017
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as Lyndon B. Johnson
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Age: 56
The Glass Castle
2017
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as Rex Walls
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Age: 56
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017
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as The Colonel
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Age: 55
Wilson
2017
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as Wilson
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Age: 55
The Edge of Seventeen
2016
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as Mr. Bruner
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Age: 55
The Duel
2016
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as Abraham Brant
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Age: 54
Now You See Me 2
2016
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as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
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Age: 54
Triple 9
2016
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as Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
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Age: 54
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
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as Haymitch Abernathy
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Age: 54
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
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as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
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Age: 53
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
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as Haymitch Abernathy
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Age: 53
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
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as Haymitch Abernathy
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Age: 52
Out of the Furnace
2013
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as Harlan DeGroat
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Age: 52
Free Birds
2013
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as Jake (voice)
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Age: 52
Now You See Me
2013
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as Merritt McKinney
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Age: 51
Seven Psychopaths
2012
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as Charlie Costello
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Age: 51
The Hunger Games
2012
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as Haymitch Abernathy
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Age: 50
Rampart
2011
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as Dave Brown
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Age: 50
Friends with Benefits
2011
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as Tommy Bollinger
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Age: 49
Bunraku
2010
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as The Bartender
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Age: 49
The Messenger
2009
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as Tony Stone
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Age: 48
2012
2009
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as Charlie Frost
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Age: 48
Zombieland
2009
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as Tallahassee
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Age: 48
Defendor
2009
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as Arthur Poppington / Defendor
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Age: 48
Management
2009
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as Jango
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Age: 47
Seven Pounds
2008
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as Ezra Turner
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Age: 47
Sleepwalking
2008
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as Randall
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Age: 46
Semi-Pro
2008
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as Monix
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Age: 46
TransSiberian
2008
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as Roy
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Age: 46
No Country for Old Men
2007
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as Carson Wells
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Age: 46
Battle in Seattle
2007
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as Dale
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Age: 46
The Walker
2007
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as Carter Page III
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Age: 45
Nanking
2007
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as Bob Wilson
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Age: 45
A Scanner Darkly
2006
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as Ernie Luckman
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Age: 44
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
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as Dusty
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Age: 44
The Big White
2005
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as Raymond Barnell
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Age: 44
North Country
2005
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as Bill White
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Age: 43
After the Sunset
2004
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as Stan Lloyd
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Age: 43
She Hate Me
2004
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as Leland Powell
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Age: 43
Anger Management
2003
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as Galaxia / Security Guard Gary
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Age: 41
No Image
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 40
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
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as Woody Harrelson
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Age: 39
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
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as Self
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Age: 39
Play It to the Bone
1999
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as Vince Boudreau
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Age: 38
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999
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as Woody Harrelson
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Age: 37
EDtv
1999
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as Ray Pekurny
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Age: 37
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
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as Big Boy Matson
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Age: 37
The Thin Red Line
1998
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as Sgt. William Keck
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Age: 37
Palmetto
1998
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as Harry Barber
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Age: 36
Wag the Dog
1997
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as Sergeant William Schumann
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Age: 36
Welcome to Sarajevo
1997
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as Flynn
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Age: 35
The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996
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as Larry Flynt
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Age: 35
Kingpin
1996
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as Roy Munson
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Age: 34
The Sunchaser
1996
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as Dr. Michael Reynolds
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Age: 34
Money Train
1995
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as Charlie
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Age: 34
Natural Born Killers
1994
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as Mickey Knox
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Age: 33
The Cowboy Way
1994
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as Pepper Lewis
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Age: 32
Indecent Proposal
1993
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as David Murphy
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Age: 31
For Our Children
1993
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as Self
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Age: 31
White Men Can't Jump
1992
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as Billy Hoyle
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Age: 30
Doc Hollywood
1991
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as Hank Gordon
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Age: 30
L.A. Story
1991
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as Harris' Boss (uncredited)
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Age: 29
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
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as
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Age: 29
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
1990
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as Self
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Age: 28
She's Having a Baby
1988
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as Woody Harrelson (uncredited)
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Age: 26
Wildcats
1986
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as Krushinski
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Age: 24