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).
147 movies · 35 shows
Robert Richardson: The White Devil
2026·0.0
Full Phil
2026·0.0
Groundswell
2026·7.0
Animal Farm
2026·6.4
Ella McCay
2025·5.5
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025·6.5
Kuleana
2025·0.0
Last Breath
2025·6.9
The Electric State
2025·6.5
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025·7.8
Girl from the North Country
2024·7.0
Fly Me to the Moon
2024·6.8
Suncoast
2024·6.7
Common Ground
2023·6.1
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
2023·0.0
Champions
2023·6.7
The Man from Toronto
2022·6.4
Triangle of Sadness
2022·7.0
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
2022·0.0
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
2021·6.0
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021·6.7
Kate
2021·6.6
Kiss the Ground
2020·7.7
The Men of Midway
2020·0.0
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
2020·0.0
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019·6.1
Midway
2019·7.1
Zombieland: Double Tap
2019·6.9
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2019·6.6
The Highwaymen
2019·6.8
Breakthrough
2019·6.9
Venom
2018·6.8
The Origins of Ebbing
2018·6.0
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018·6.6
Shock and Awe
2017·6.3
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017·8.1
LBJ
2017·6.4
The Glass Castle
2017·7.1
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017·7.2
Wilson
2017·6.0
Lost in London
2017·6.0
The Edge of Seventeen
2016·7.2
The Duel
2016·5.4
Now You See Me 2
2016·6.8
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
2016·7.6
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016·4.0
Triple 9
2016·6.0
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015·6.9
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015·7.2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014·6.8
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014·6.4
David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013·6.8
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013·7.4
Out of the Furnace
2013·6.6
Free Birds
2013·5.9
Now You See Me
2013·7.3
Seven Psychopaths
2012·6.8
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
2012·7.1
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012·8.5
The Hunger Games
2012·7.2
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
2012·0.0
Game Change
2012·6.9
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
2011·5.6
Rampart
2011·5.5
Friends with Benefits
2011·6.6
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique
2011·7.2
Ethos
2011·6.9
Bunraku
2010·5.8
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010·7.0
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010·7.8
The Messenger
2009·6.7
2012
2009·5.9
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009·6.5
Zombieland
2009·7.3
Defendor
2009·6.4
Management
2009·5.4
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
2009·6.8
Seven Pounds
2008·7.6
The Hempire Strikes Back
2008·0.0
Surfer, Dude
2008·4.6
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
2008·6.7
Burma: It Can't Wait
2008·0.0
Sleepwalking
2008·6.1
No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
2008·6.9
Semi-Pro
2008·5.6
TransSiberian
2008·6.4
No Country for Old Men
2007·7.9
Raw for Life
2007·0.0
Battle in Seattle
2007·6.3
The Grand
2007·5.8
The Walker
2007·5.3
Nanking
2007·7.1
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006·8.2
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006·7.0
A Scanner Darkly
2006·6.8
A Prairie Home Companion
2006·6.3
The Outsider
2005·6.8
The Big White
2005·6.2
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
2005·6.6
North Country
2005·7.2
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
2004·0.0
After the Sunset
2004·6.2
She Hate Me
2004·5.2
Scorched
2003·5.5
Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
2003·8.5
Anger Management
2003·6.2
Go Further
2003·6.8
This So-Called Disaster
2003·5.3
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002·8.0
American Saint
2001·7.5
Welcome to Hollywood
2000·4.2
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000·0.0
Play It to the Bone
1999·5.4
Grass
1999·6.6
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999·6.3
EDtv
1999·6.0
The Hi-Lo Country
1998·6.0
The Thin Red Line
1998·7.4
Palmetto
1998·6.0
Wag the Dog
1997·6.9
Welcome to Sarajevo
1997·6.5
The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996·7.0
Kingpin
1996·6.5
The Sunchaser
1996·6.3
Money Train
1995·5.9
Natural Born Killers
1994·7.1
The Cowboy Way
1994·5.7
I'll Do Anything
1994·5.6
Indecent Proposal
1993·6.4
For Our Children
1993·7.7
White Men Can't Jump
1992·6.6
Ted & Venus
1991·4.5
Doc Hollywood
1991·6.4
L.A. Story
1991·6.5
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990·0.0
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
1990·6.0
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
1990·5.0
The Earth Day Special
1990·6.1
Cool Blue
1990·4.6
True Believer
1989·6.2
Killer Instinct
1988·6.2
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988·6.8
She's Having a Baby
1988·5.9
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
1987·8.0
Bay Coven
1987·4.3
Wildcats
1986·6.3
Harper Valley P.T.A.
1978·7.2