Woody Harrelson

Also known as Woodrow Tracy Harrelson

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson 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 has received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), and Best Supporting Actor for The Messenger (2009) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

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Woody Harrelson is an American actor who first became famous for playing bartender Woody Boyd on the TV sitcom Cheers, where he won an Emmy Award. He has gone on to have a successful film career, earning three Academy Award nominations for roles in The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Messenger, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

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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 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…

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Animal Farm — Boxer (voice)2026
Full Phil — Philip Doom2026
Groundswell — Narrator (voice)2026
Robert Richardson: The White Devil — Self2026
Brothers — Woody Harrelson2026
Last Breath — Duncan Allcock2025
Ella McCay — Eddie McCay2025
Now You See Me: Now You Don't — Merritt McKinney2025
The Electric State — Mr. Peanut (voice)2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self2025

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Instance of: human
Given name: Tracy
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Midland
Father: Charles Harrelson
Sibling: Brett Harrelson
Occupation: actor
Employer: Kings Island
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Actor Awards
Image: Woody Harrelson 191020-N-NU281-1028 (cropped).jpg
Number of children: 4

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birth name: Woodrow Tracy Harrelson
Commons category: Woody Harrelson
date of birth: 1961-07-23
lifestyle: vegetarianism
nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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start of work period: 1985-00-00
filmography: Woody Harrelson filmography
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name in native language: Woody Harrelson

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Woodrow Tracy 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 has received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), and 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), 2012 (2009), Seven Psychopaths (2012), The Edge of Seventeen (2016), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), Triangle of Sadness (2022), and Suncoast (2024). He also played Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), Chase McKinney / Merritt McKinney in the Now You See Me film series (2013–), and Tobias Beckett in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).

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