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Animal Farm
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Woody Harrelson
Also known as Woodrow Tracy Harrelson
Biography
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 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).
Personal details
Full filmography
2026
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Full Phil
as Philip Doom
2026
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Groundswell
as Narrator (voice)
2026
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Robert Richardson: The White Devil
as Self
2026
2025
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Last Breath
as Duncan Allcock
2025
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Ella McCay
as Eddie McCay
2025
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't
as Merritt McKinney
2025
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The Electric State
as Mr. Peanut (voice)
2025
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self
2025
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Kuleana
as Narrator (voice)
2025
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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
as Self
2025
2024
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Suncoast
as Paul
2024
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Fly Me to the Moon
as Moe Berkus
2024
2023
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Champions
2023
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Common Ground
as Self
2023
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Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
as Self
2023
2022
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Triangle of Sadness
as The Captain
2022
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Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
as Self
2022
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The Man from Toronto
as The Man from Toronto
2022
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
2022
2021
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Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story
as Narrator (voice)
2021
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2021
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Kate
as Varrick
2021
2020
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The Men of Midway
as Self
2020
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Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
as Self
2020
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Kiss the Ground
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
2019
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The Highwaymen
2019
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Zombieland: Double Tap
as Tallahassee
2019
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Midway
as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
2019
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Breakthrough
as Narrator (voice)
2019
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
as Archie Bunker
2019
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Archie Bunker
2019
2018
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Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Tobias Beckett
2018
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Venom
as Cletus Kasady / Carnage
2018
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The Origins of Ebbing
as Self
2018
2017
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Wilson
as Wilson
2017
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LBJ
as Lyndon B. Johnson
2017
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Willoughby
2017
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The Glass Castle
as Rex Walls
2017
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War for the Planet of the Apes
as The Colonel
2017
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Lost in London
2017
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Shock and Awe
as Jonathan Landay
2017
2016
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Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
as Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
2016
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Triple 9
as Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen
2016
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Now You See Me 2
as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney
2016
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The Duel
as Abraham Brant
2016
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The Edge of Seventeen
as Mr. Bruner
2016
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Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
as Self
2016
2015
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
London premiereas Haymitch Abernathy
2015
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The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
2015
2014
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Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
2014
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
London premiereas Haymitch Abernathy
2014
2013
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Now You See Me
as Merritt McKinney
2013
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Haymitch Abernathy
2013
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Out of the Furnace
as Harlan DeGroat
2013
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Free Birds
as Jake (voice)
2013
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David Blaine: Real or Magic
as Self
2013
2012
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The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
2012
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The Hunger Games
as Haymitch Abernathy
2012
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Game Change
as Steve Schmidt
2012