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Woody Harrelson
Midland, Texas, USA
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 whi…
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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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2026
Brothers
TV show Woody Harrelson
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2026
Robert Richardson: The White Devil
Movie Self
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2026
Full Phil
Movie Philip Doom
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2026
Groundswell
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2026
Animal Farm
Movie Boxer (voice)
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2025
Ella McCay
Movie Eddie McCay
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2025
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Movie Merritt McKinney
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2025
Kuleana
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2025
The Electric State
Movie Mr. Peanut (voice)
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2025
Last Breath
Movie Duncan Allcock
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2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Movie Self
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2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Movie Self
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2024
Fly Me to the Moon
Movie Moe Berkus
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2024
Suncoast
Movie Paul
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2023
Common Ground
Movie Self
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2023
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
Movie Self
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2023
White House Plumbers
TV show E. Howard Hunt
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2023
Champions
Movie Marcus
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2022
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
The Man from Toronto
Movie The Man from Toronto
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2022
Triangle of Sadness
Movie The Captain
- 2022
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2021
The Freak Brothers
TV show Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice)
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2021
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Movie Cletus Kasady / Carnage
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2021
Kate
Movie Varrick
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2020
Kiss the Ground
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2020
The Men of Midway
Movie Self
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2020
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
Movie Self
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2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Movie Archie Bunker
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2019
Midway
Movie Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
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2019
Zombieland: Double Tap
Movie Tallahassee
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
- 2019
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2019
The Highwaymen
Movie Manny Gault
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2019
Breakthrough
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2018
Venom
Movie Cletus Kasady / Carnage
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2018
Basketball: A Love Story
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2018
The Origins of Ebbing
Movie Self
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2018
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Movie Tobias Beckett
