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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).

Filmography

2025
Now You See Me: Now You Don't

as Merritt McKinney

Movie
2013
Now You See Me

as Merritt McKinney

Movie
2025
Ella McCay

as Eddie McCay

Movie
2016
Now You See Me 2

as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney

Movie
2012
The Hunger Games

as Haymitch Abernathy

Movie
2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

as Haymitch Abernathy

Movie
2017
War for the Planet of the Apes

as The Colonel

Movie
2009
2012

as Charlie Frost

Movie
2025
Last Breath

as Duncan Allcock

Movie
2025
The Electric State

as Mr. Peanut (voice)

Movie
2009
Zombieland

as Tallahassee

Movie
1995
Money Train

as Charlie

Movie
2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage

as Cletus Kasady / Carnage

Movie
2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

as Haymitch Abernathy

Movie
2018
Venom

as Cletus Kasady / Carnage

Movie
2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"

as Archie Bunker

Movie
2014
True Detective

as Martin Hart

TV Show