Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson 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).

Lips Like Sugar

Producer
Animal Farm
2025
Executive Producer
Champions
2023
Executive Producer
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
2022
Executive Producer
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
2021
Narrator (voice)
Lost in London
2017
Producer
Triangle of Sadness
2022
The Captain
The Highwaymen
2019
Executive Producer
Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
2016
Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014
Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
Bunraku
2010
The Bartender
Management
2009
Jango
Seven Pounds
2008
Ezra Turner
TransSiberian
2008
Roy
No Country for Old Men
2007
Carson Wells
A Scanner Darkly
2006
Ernie Luckman
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
Dusty
After the Sunset
2004
Stan Lloyd
Scorched
2003
Jason 'Woods' Valley
Anger Management
2003
Galaxia / Security Guard Gary
Play It to the Bone
1999
Vince Boudreau
Grass
1999
Narrator (voice)
EDtv
1999
Ray Pekurny
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
Big Boy Matson
Palmetto
1998
Harry Barber
The Thin Red Line
1998
Sgt. William Keck
Wag the Dog
1997
Sergeant William Schumann
The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996
Larry Flynt
Kingpin
1996
Roy Munson
Money Train
1995
Charlie
Natural Born Killers
1994
Mickey Knox
Indecent Proposal
1993
David Murphy
The Panama Deception
1992
Thanks
White Men Can't Jump
1992
Billy Hoyle
Girl from the North Country

Nick Laine
Last Breath
2025
Duncan Allcock
Ella McCay
2025
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
Merritt McKinney
The Electric State
2025
Mr. Peanut (voice)
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
Self
Suncoast
2024
Paul
Fly Me to the Moon
2024
Moe Berkus
Common Ground
2023
Self
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
2023
Self
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
2022
Self
Breakthrough
2022
Narrator (voice)
The Man from Toronto
2022
The Man From Toronto
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021
Cletus Kasady / Carnage
Kate
2021
Varrick
Kiss the Ground
2020
Narrator (voice)
Zombieland: Double Tap
2019
Tallahassee
Midway
2019
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2019
Archie Bunker
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019
Archie Bunker
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018
Tobias Beckett
Venom
2018
Cletus Kasady / Carnage
The Origins of Ebbing
2018
Self
Wilson
2017
Wilson
LBJ
2017
Lyndon B. Johnson
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017
Bill Willoughby
The Glass Castle
2017
Rex Walls
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017
The Colonel
Shock and Awe
2017
Jonathan Landay
Triple 9
2016
Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
Now You See Me 2
2016
Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
The Duel
2016
Abraham Brant
The Edge of Seventeen
2016
Mr. Bruner
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016
Self
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
Haymitch Abernathy
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
Haymitch Abernathy
Now You See Me
2013
Merritt McKinney
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
Haymitch Abernathy
Out of the Furnace
2013
Harlan DeGroat
Free Birds
2013
Jake (voice)
David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013
Self
The Hunger Games
2012
Haymitch Abernathy
Game Change
2012
Steve Schmidt
Seven Psychopaths
2012
Charlie Costello
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
2012
Self
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
2012
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Friends with Benefits
2011
Tommy Bollinger
Rampart
2011
Dave Brown
Ethos
2011
Host
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique
2011
Self
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
2011
Self
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
Self
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
Self
The Messenger
2009
Tony Stone
Defendor
2009
Arthur Poppington / Defendor
2012
2009
Charlie Frost
Zombieland
2009
Tallahassee
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
2009
Self
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
Self
Semi-Pro
2008
Monix
Surfer, Dude
2008
Jack
Sleepwalking
2008
Randall
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
2008
Himself
No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
2008
Self
The Walker
2007
Carter Page III
Battle in Seattle
2007
Dale
The Grand
2007
One Eyed Jack Faro
Nanking
2007
Bob Wilson
Raw for Life
2007
Self
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006
Self / Luckman
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006
Self
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
2005
Kelly Ryan
The Big White
2005
Raymond Barnell
North Country
2005
Bill White
The Outsider
2005
Self
She Hate Me
2004
Leland Powell
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
2004
Self
Go Further
2003
Self
Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
2003
Host
This So-Called Disaster
2003
Taxi Driver
American Saint
2001
Self
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
Woody Harrelson
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
Self
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999
Woody Harrelson
Welcome to Sarajevo
1997
Flynn
The Sunchaser
1996
Dr. Michael Reynolds
The Cowboy Way
1994
Pepper Lewis
I'll Do Anything
1994
Ground Zero Hero
For Our Children
1993
Self
Doc Hollywood
1991
Hank Gordon
Ted & Venus
1991
Homeless Vietnam Veteran
L.A. Story
1991
Harris' Boss (uncredited)
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
1990
Lou the Lamb
Cool Blue
1990
Dustin
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
1990
Self
The Earth Day Special
1990
Woody Boyd
True Believer
1989
Man in Dodd's office
Killer Instinct
1988
Charlie Long
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988
Woody Boyd
She's Having a Baby
1988
Woody Harrelson (uncredited)
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
1987
Self
Bay Coven
1987
Slater
Wildcats
1986
Krushinski
Harper Valley P.T.A.
1978
Extra (uncredited)
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life

Self (archive footage)