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Woody Harrelson
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Woodrow Tracy "Woody" 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 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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Woodrow Tracy "Woody" 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 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).
Known For
Saturday Night Live
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Oscars
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
E! True Hollywood Story
Real Time with Bill Maher
Will & Grace
Frasier
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Honest Trailers
MTV Movie & TV Awards
The Simpsons
The Graham Norton Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
HBO First Look
The Daily Show
Dear John
Celebrities Uncensored
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
She's Having a Baby
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Wildcats
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
Anger Management
True Detective
The Thin Red Line
Cheers
Venom
The Electric State
The Outsider
2012
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Triple 9
A Prairie Home Companion
Friends with Benefits
No Country for Old Men
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The Hunger Games
Triangle of Sadness
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Surfer, Dude
Wag the Dog
Now You See Me
Kate
After the Sunset
Suncoast
Seven Pounds
Fly Me to the Moon
Bunraku
Now You See Me 2
Indecent Proposal
Midway
Out of the Furnace
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Brothers
The Glass Castle
The Messenger
Money Train
Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
The Man from Toronto
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
War for the Planet of the Apes
Zombieland
The Edge of Seventeen
The Highwaymen
Kingpin
Free Jimmy
Zombieland: Double Tap
Last Breath
Champions
White House Plumbers
Natural Born Killers
Production Credits
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
True Detective
White House Plumbers
The Highwaymen
Champions
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