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 | The Man with the Miraculous Hands | Felix Kersten | 2025 |
Movie | Now You See Me 3 | Merritt McKinney | 2025-11-14 |
Series | Brother from Another Mother | Self | 2025 |
Movie | Fruitloops | 2025 | |
Movie | Girl from the North Country | Nick Laine | 2025 |
Movie | Sailing | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | The Electric State | 2025 | |
Movie | Last Breath | 2025-02-28 | |
Movie | Ella McCay | 2025 | |
Movie | Lips Like Sugar | John Carr | 2025 |
Movie | Fly Me to the Moon | Moe Berkus | 2024-07-10 |
Movie | Suncoast | Paul | 2024-02-02 |
Movie | STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie | Hank Gordon (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2023-01-20 |
Movie | Champions | Marcus | 2023-03-09 |
Series | White House Plumbers | E. Howard Hunt | 2023-05-01 |
Movie | Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short | Self | 2023-06-11 |
Movie | Common Ground | Self | 2023-09-29 |
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 | Kiss the Ground | Narrator (voice) | 2020-09-22 |
Movie | Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission | Self | 2020-02-18 |
Movie | The Men of Midway | Self | 2020-02-18 |
Movie | Midway | Admiral Chester W. Nimitz | 2019-11-06 |
Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" | Archie Bunker | 2019-12-18 |
Movie | The Highwaymen | Manny Gault | 2019-03-15 |
Movie | Zombieland: Double Tap | Tallahassee | 2019-10-09 |
Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" | Archie Bunker | 2019-05-22 |
Movie | Solo: A Star Wars Story | Tobias Beckett | 2018-05-15 |
Movie | Shock and Awe | Jonathan Landay | 2018-07-13 |
Movie | Venom | Cletus Kasady / Carnage | 2018-09-28 |
Movie | The Origins of Ebbing | Self | 2018-06-25 |
Series | Basketball: A Love Story | Self (archive footage) | 2018-09-18 |
Movie | Lost in London | Woody Harrelson | 2017-01-19 |
Movie | Wilson | Wilson | 2017-03-24 |
Movie | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Bill Willoughby | 2017-12-01 |
Movie | LBJ | Lyndon B. Johnson | 2017-11-03 |
Series | The Nineties | Self (archive footage) | 2017-07-09 |
Movie | The Glass Castle | Rex Walls | 2017-08-11 |
Movie | War for the Planet of the Apes | The Colonel | 2017-07-11 |
Movie | Triple 9 | Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen | 2016-02-19 |
Movie | Now You See Me 2 | Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney | 2016-06-02 |
Movie | Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows | Self | 2016-02-21 |
Movie | The Duel | Abraham Brant | 2016-06-24 |
Movie | The Edge of Seventeen | Mr. Bruner | 2016-11-18 |
Movie | Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 | Self (Haymitch Abernathy) | 2016-03-22 |
Movie | Song for Someone | Aaron Brown | 2015-07-12 |
Movie | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Haymitch Abernathy | 2015-11-18 |
Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Unknown | 2015-09-08 |
Movie | The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 | Self (Haymitch Abernathy) | 2015-03-06 |
Movie | Making True Detective | Himself | 2014-01-07 |
Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
Series | True Detective | Martin Hart | 2014-01-12 |
Movie | Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Self (Haymitch Abernathy) | 2014-03-07 |
Movie | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Haymitch Abernathy | 2014-11-19 |
Series | The Frame | Haymitch Abernathy | 2013-04-09 |
Movie | Now You See Me | Merritt McKinney | 2013-05-29 |
Movie | David Blaine: Real or Magic | Self | 2013-11-19 |
Movie | Free Birds | Jake (voice) | 2013-10-30 |
Movie | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Haymitch Abernathy | 2013-11-15 |
Movie | Out of the Furnace | Harlan DeGroat | 2013-11-09 |
Series | Honest Trailers | Haymitch Abernathy (archive footage) | 2012-02-13 |
Movie | Game Change | Steve Schmidt | 2012-02-28 |
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 | Ethos | Host | 2011-02-10 |
Movie | Friends with Benefits | Tommy Bollinger | 2011-07-21 |
Movie | Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis | Self | 2011-12-17 |
Movie | Rampart | Dave Brown | 2011-11-23 |
Movie | The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique | Self | 2011-07-01 |
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 | Management | Jango | 2009-02-08 |
Movie | The Messenger | Tony Stone | 2009-11-13 |
Movie | 2012 | Charlie Frost | 2009-10-10 |
Movie | Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… | Self | 2009-10-08 |
Movie | Defendor | Arthur Poppington / Defendor | 2009-09-12 |
Movie | Zombieland | Tallahassee | 2009-10-02 |
Movie | TransSiberian | Roy | 2008-01-18 |
Movie | Semi-Pro | Monix | 2008-02-28 |
Movie | Surfer, Dude | Jack | 2008-09-05 |
Movie | Burma: It Can't Wait | Divo | 2008-05-02 |
Movie | No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes | Self | 2008-03-11 |
Movie | Seven Pounds | Ezra Turner | 2008-12-18 |
Movie | Sleepwalking | Randall | 2008-03-14 |
Movie | Hempsters: Plant the Seed | Himself | 2008-05-25 |
Movie | Nanking | Bob Wilson | 2007-02-10 |
Movie | The Walker | Carter Page III | 2007-02-13 |
Movie | The Grand | One Eyed Jack Faro | 2007-06-07 |
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 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
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 Outsider | Self | 2005-12-04 |
Movie | North Country | Bill White | 2005-02-12 |
Movie | The Big White | Raymond Barnell | 2005-10-27 |
Movie | The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio | Kelly Ryan | 2005-09-28 |
Movie | She Hate Me | Leland Powell | 2004-07-30 |
Movie | After the Sunset | Stan Lloyd | 2004-11-12 |
Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
Movie | This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss" | Taxi Driver | 2003-01-01 |
Series | Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | 2003-02-21 |
Movie | Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special | Host | 2003-04-29 |
Movie | Scorched | Jason 'Woods' Valley | 2003-05-17 |
Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | 2003-09-08 |
Movie | Go Further | Self | 2003-03-07 |
Movie | Anger Management | Galaxia / Security Guard Gary | 2003-04-11 |
Series | Celebrities Uncensored | Self | 2003-06-04 |
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 | Palmetto | Harry Barber | 1998-02-20 |
Movie | The Thin Red Line | Sgt. William Keck | 1998-12-23 |
Movie | The Hi-Lo Country | Big Boy Matson | 1998-12-30 |
Movie | Welcome to Hollywood | Woody Harrelson | 1998-10-01 |
Series | Will & Grace | Nathan | 1998-09-21 |
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 |
Movie | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Larry Flynt | 1996-12-25 |
Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-08-21 |
Movie | Kingpin | Roy Munson | 1996-07-04 |
Series | The Daily Show | Self | 1996-07-22 |
Series | Spin City | Tommy Dugan | 1996-09-17 |
Movie | Money Train | Charlie | 1995-11-21 |
Movie | The Cowboy Way | Pepper Lewis | 1994-06-03 |
Movie | Natural Born Killers | Mickey Knox | 1994-08-26 |
Movie | I'll Do Anything | Ground Zero Hero | 1994-02-04 |
Series | Frasier | Woody Boyd | 1993-09-16 |
Movie | Indecent Proposal | David Murphy | 1993-04-07 |
Movie | For Our Children | Self | 1993-02-16 |
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 | Cool Blue | Dustin | 1990-02-27 |
Movie | Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme | Lou the Lamb | 1990-05-19 |
Movie | The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? | 1990-08-31 | |
Movie | The Earth Day Special | Woody Boyd | 1990-04-22 |
Movie | Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special | Self | 1990-07-01 |
Series | The Simpsons | Woody Boyd (voice) | 1989-12-17 |
Movie | True Believer | Man in Dodd's office | 1989-02-17 |
Movie | She's Having a Baby | Woody Harrelson (uncredited) | 1988-02-05 |
Series | Dear John | Richard | 1988-10-06 |
Movie | Killer Instinct | Charlie Long | 1988-11-22 |
Movie | Mickey's 60th Birthday | Woody Boyd | 1988-11-13 |
Series | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Unknown | 1988-09-05 |
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 |