Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor, activist from Texas, and "inbred hempseed".His Star-Making Role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd .
Some notable film characters include basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't Jump, a crippled bowler in Kingpin, serial killer Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, magazine publisher Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt, country singer Dusty in A Prairie Home Companion, bounty hunter Carson Wells in No Country for Old Men, zombie killer Tallahassee in Zombieland, blind piano player/meat salesman Ezra Turner in Seven Pounds, conspiracy nut Charlie Frost in 2012, the titular mentally-challenged superhero in Defendor, Cpt. Tony Stone in The Messenger, Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series, and Merritt McKinney in Now You See Me.
For The People vs. Larry Flynt and The Messenger, Harrelson earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and best Supporting Actor, respectively.
In 2014, he starred in the HBO crime drama True Detective with Matthew McConaughey.
Woody Harrelson has appeared in these following works
Film[]
- Wildcats (1986)
- L.A. Story (1991)
- Doc Hollywood (1991)
- White Men Can't Jump (1992)
- Indecent Proposal (1993)
- Natural Born Killers (1994)
- Money Train (1995)
- The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
- Kingpin (1996)
- Wag the Dog (1997)
- The Thin Red Line (1998)
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
- Anger Management (2003)
- After the Sunset (2004)
- North Country (2005)
- A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
- A Scanner Darkly (2006)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Seven Pounds (2008)
- The Messenger (2009)
- Defendor (2009)
- Zombieland (2009)
- Bunraku (2010)
- Friends with Benefits (2011)
- Game Change (2012)
- The Hunger Games film series (2012-2015)
- Seven Psychopaths (2012)
- Now You See Me (2013)
- Free Birds (2013)
- Wilson (2017)
- War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
- LBJ (2017)
- Solo (2018)
- Venom (2018)
- The Highwaymen (2019)
Live-Action TV[]