Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor and playwright. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Harrelson 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 a total of five nominations. He went on to receive three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), and Best Supporting Actor for both The Messenger (2009) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). Harrelson was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Marty Hart in the crime anthology series True Detective (2014).
Movie | Fruitloops | 2025 | |
Movie | Now You See Me 3 | Merritt McKinney | 2025-11-14 |
Movie | The Man with the Miraculous Hands | Felix Kersten | 2025 |
Movie | The Electric State | 2025 | |
Series | Brother from Another Mother | Self | 2025 |
Movie | Making True Detective | Himself | 2025 |
Movie | Ella McCay | 2025 | |
Movie | Last Breath | 2025-02-28 | |
Movie | Lips Like Sugar | John Carr | 2025 |
Movie | Girl from the North Country | Nick Laine | 2025 |
Movie | Sailing | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Fly Me to the Moon | Moe Berkus | 2024-07-10 |
Movie | Suncoast | Paul | 2024-02-02 |
Movie | Champions | Marcus | 2023-03-09 |
Movie | Common Ground | Self | 2023-09-29 |
Movie | STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie | Hank Gordon (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2023-01-20 |
Movie | Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short | Self | 2023-06-11 |
Series | White House Plumbers | E. Howard Hunt | 2023-05-01 |
Movie | The Man from Toronto | The Man From Toronto | 2022-12-23 |
Movie | Breakthrough | Narrator (voice) | 2022-05-19 |
Movie | Triangle of Sadness | The Captain | 2022-09-18 |
Movie | Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon | Self | 2022-09-06 |
Movie | Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story | Narrator (voice) | 2021-11-09 |
Series | The Freak Brothers | Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice) | 2021-11-14 |
Movie | Venom: Let There Be Carnage | Cletus Kasady / Carnage | 2021-09-30 |
Movie | Kate | Varrick | 2021-09-10 |
Movie | The Men of Midway | Self | 2020-02-18 |
Movie | Kiss the Ground | Narrator (voice) | 2020-09-22 |
Movie | Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission | Self | 2020-02-18 |
Movie | Zombieland: Double Tap | Tallahassee | 2019-10-09 |
Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" | Archie Bunker | 2019-12-18 |
Movie | Midway | Admiral Chester W. Nimitz | 2019-11-06 |
Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" | Archie Bunker | 2019-05-22 |
Movie | The Highwaymen | Manny Gault | 2019-03-15 |
Movie | The Origins of Ebbing | Self | 2018-06-25 |
Movie | Venom | Cletus Kasady / Carnage | 2018-09-28 |
Series | Basketball: A Love Story | Self (archive footage) | 2018-09-18 |
Movie | Shock and Awe | Jonathan Landay | 2018-07-13 |
Movie | Solo: A Star Wars Story | Tobias Beckett | 2018-05-15 |
Movie | Lost in London | Woody Harrelson | 2017-01-19 |
Movie | LBJ | Lyndon B. Johnson | 2017-11-03 |
Movie | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Bill Willoughby | 2017-12-01 |
Movie | The Glass Castle | Rex Walls | 2017-08-11 |
Movie | War for the Planet of the Apes | The Colonel | 2017-07-11 |
Movie | Wilson | Wilson | 2017-03-24 |
Series | The Nineties | Self (archive footage) | 2017-07-09 |
Movie | Triple 9 | Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen | 2016-02-19 |
Movie | Now You See Me 2 | Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney | 2016-06-02 |
Movie | The Duel | Abraham Brant | 2016-06-24 |
Movie | Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 | Self (Haymitch Abernathy) | 2016-03-22 |
Movie | Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows | Self | 2016-02-21 |
Movie | The Edge of Seventeen | Mr. Bruner | 2016-11-18 |
Movie | The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 | Self (Haymitch Abernathy) | 2015-03-06 |
Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Unknown | 2015-09-08 |
Movie | Song for Someone | Aaron Brown | 2015-07-12 |
Movie | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Haymitch Abernathy | 2015-11-18 |
Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
Movie | Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Self (Haymitch Abernathy) | 2014-03-07 |
Series | True Detective | Martin Hart | 2014-01-12 |
Movie | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Haymitch Abernathy | 2014-11-19 |
Series | The Frame | Haymitch Abernathy | 2013-04-09 |
Movie | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Haymitch Abernathy | 2013-11-15 |
Movie | David Blaine: Real or Magic | Self | 2013-11-19 |
Movie | Now You See Me | Merritt McKinney | 2013-05-29 |
Movie | Out of the Furnace | Harlan DeGroat | 2013-11-09 |
Movie | Free Birds | Jake (voice) | 2013-10-30 |
Movie | Game Change | Steve Schmidt | 2012-02-28 |
Series | Honest Trailers | Haymitch Abernathy (archive footage) | 2012-02-13 |
Movie | Who Bombed Judi Bari? | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2012-03-02 |
Movie | The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games | Self (Haymitch Abernathy) | 2012-08-18 |
Movie | How to Make Money Selling Drugs | Self | 2012-09-07 |
Movie | Seven Psychopaths | Charlie Costello | 2012-10-12 |
Movie | The Hunger Games | Haymitch Abernathy | 2012-03-12 |
Movie | The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique | Self | 2011-07-01 |
Movie | Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis | Self | 2011-12-17 |
Movie | Rampart | Dave Brown | 2011-11-23 |
Movie | Friends with Benefits | Tommy Bollinger | 2011-07-21 |
Movie | Ethos | Host | 2011-02-10 |
Movie | Bunraku | The Bartender | 2010-09-01 |
Movie | The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective | Self | 2010-03-02 |
Movie | 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Self | 2010-03-02 |
Movie | Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days | Self | 2009-02-01 |
Movie | 2012 | Charlie Frost | 2009-10-10 |
Movie | Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… | Self | 2009-10-08 |
Movie | The Messenger | Tony Stone | 2009-11-13 |
Movie | Management | Jango | 2009-02-08 |
Movie | Zombieland | Tallahassee | 2009-10-02 |
Movie | Defendor | Arthur Poppington / Defendor | 2009-09-12 |
Movie | TransSiberian | Roy | 2008-01-18 |
Movie | Semi-Pro | Monix | 2008-02-28 |
Movie | Hempsters: Plant the Seed | Himself | 2008-05-25 |
Movie | Seven Pounds | Ezra Turner | 2008-12-18 |
Movie | Sleepwalking | Randall | 2008-03-14 |
Movie | No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes | Self | 2008-03-11 |
Movie | Surfer, Dude | Jack | 2008-09-05 |
Movie | Burma: It Can't Wait | Divo | 2008-05-02 |
Movie | Nanking | Bob Wilson | 2007-02-10 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Raw for Life | Self | 2007-10-16 |
Movie | Battle in Seattle | Dale | 2007-09-07 |
Movie | No Country for Old Men | Carson Wells | 2007-06-13 |
Movie | The Grand | One Eyed Jack Faro | 2007-06-07 |
Movie | The Walker | Carter Page III | 2007-02-13 |
Movie | Free Jimmy | Roy Arnie (voice) | 2006-04-21 |
Movie | A Prairie Home Companion | Dusty | 2006-06-01 |
Movie | A Scanner Darkly | Ernie Luckman | 2006-07-07 |
Movie | One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly' | Self / Luckman | 2006-12-19 |
Movie | The Big White | Raymond Barnell | 2005-10-27 |
Movie | The Outsider | Self | 2005-12-04 |
Movie | The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio | Kelly Ryan | 2005-09-28 |
Movie | North Country | Bill White | 2005-02-12 |
Movie | After the Sunset | Stan Lloyd | 2004-11-12 |
Movie | She Hate Me | Leland Powell | 2004-07-30 |
Movie | This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss" | Taxi Driver | 2003-01-01 |
Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
Movie | Anger Management | Galaxia / Security Guard Gary | 2003-04-11 |
Movie | Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special | Host | 2003-04-29 |
Series | Celebrities Uncensored | Self | 2003-06-04 |
Movie | Scorched | Jason 'Woods' Valley | 2003-05-17 |
Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | 2003-09-08 |
Series | Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | 2003-02-21 |
Movie | Go Further | Self | 2003-03-07 |
Movie | American Saint | Self | 2001-10-18 |
Series | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Woody Harrelson | 2000-10-15 |
Movie | Grass | Narrator (voice) | 1999-09-15 |
Movie | Play It to the Bone | Vince Boudreau | 1999-12-25 |
Movie | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Woody Harrelson | 1999-06-08 |
Movie | EDtv | Ray Pekurny | 1999-03-26 |
Movie | The Thin Red Line | Sgt. William Keck | 1998-12-23 |
Movie | Welcome to Hollywood | Woody Harrelson | 1998-10-01 |
Movie | The Hi-Lo Country | Big Boy Matson | 1998-12-30 |
Series | Will & Grace | Nathan | 1998-09-21 |
Movie | Palmetto | Harry Barber | 1998-02-20 |
Movie | Wag the Dog | Sergeant William Schumann | 1997-12-25 |
Movie | Welcome to Sarajevo | Flynn | 1997-05-09 |
Movie | The Sunchaser | Dr. Michael Reynolds | 1996-05-29 |
Series | Spin City | Tommy Dugan | 1996-09-17 |
Movie | Kingpin | Roy Munson | 1996-07-04 |
Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-08-21 |
Series | The Daily Show | Self | 1996-07-22 |
Movie | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Larry Flynt | 1996-12-25 |
Movie | Money Train | Charlie | 1995-11-21 |
Movie | I'll Do Anything | Ground Zero Hero | 1994-02-04 |
Movie | Natural Born Killers | Mickey Knox | 1994-08-26 |
Movie | The Cowboy Way | Pepper Lewis | 1994-06-03 |
Movie | For Our Children | Self | 1993-02-16 |
Series | Frasier | Woody Boyd | 1993-09-16 |
Movie | Indecent Proposal | David Murphy | 1993-04-07 |
Series | HBO First Look | Unknown | 1992-06-12 |
Series | MTV Movie & TV Awards | Self / Presenter | 1992-06-10 |
Movie | White Men Can't Jump | Billy Hoyle | 1992-03-27 |
Movie | Ted & Venus | Homeless Vietnam Veteran | 1991-08-08 |
Movie | L.A. Story | Harris' Boss (uncredited) | 1991-02-08 |
Movie | Doc Hollywood | Hank Gordon | 1991-08-02 |
Movie | The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? | 1990-08-31 | |
Movie | Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special | Self | 1990-07-01 |
Movie | The Earth Day Special | Woody Boyd | 1990-04-22 |
Movie | Cool Blue | Dustin | 1990-02-27 |
Movie | Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme | Lou the Lamb | 1990-05-19 |
Series | The Simpsons | Woody Boyd (voice) | 1989-12-17 |
Movie | True Believer | Man in Dodd's office | 1989-02-17 |
Movie | Mickey's 60th Birthday | Woody Boyd | 1988-11-13 |
Series | Dear John | Richard | 1988-10-06 |
Movie | Killer Instinct | Charlie Long | 1988-11-22 |
Series | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Unknown | 1988-09-05 |
Movie | She's Having a Baby | Woody Harrelson (uncredited) | 1988-02-05 |
Movie | Bay Coven | Slater | 1987-10-25 |
Movie | Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim | Self | 1987-12-05 |
Movie | Wildcats | Krushinski | 1986-02-14 |
Series | Cheers | Woody Boyd | 1982-09-30 |
Movie | Harper Valley P.T.A. | Extra (uncredited) | 1978-08-02 |
Series | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | 1975-10-11 |
Series | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | 1962-10-01 |
Series | The Oscars | Self | 1953-03-19 |