
Woody Harrelson
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).
Known for

The Simpsons
1989

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

The Daily Show
1996

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019

Real Time with Bill Maher
2003

Frasier
1993

Saturday Night Live
1975

Saturday Night Live
1975

Saturday Night Live
1975

Saturday Night Live
1975

The Graham Norton Show
2007

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

Cheers
1982

True Detective
2014

Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Will & Grace
1998

Hot Ones
2015

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003