Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson is an American actor. Born July 23, 1961, in Midland. Educated at Hanover College and Lebanon High School. Awards include Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
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- Described as
- American actor (born 1961)
- Other names
- Woodrow Tracy Harrelson
- Born
- July 23, 1961 · 9 references
- Born in
- Midland · 1 reference
- Name at birth
- Woodrow Tracy Harrelson
- Citizen of
- United States
- Occupation
- television actor; film actor · 1 reference; stage actor; theatre director; film director; screenwriter; film producer · 1 reference; voice actor · 1 reference
- Worked for
- Kings Island
- Education
- Hanover College (–1983); Lebanon High School · 1 reference; The Briarwood School
- Member of
- Sigma Chi
- Awards
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male (2009); Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (1989); Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (2008)
- Father
- Charles Harrelson
- Siblings
- Brett Harrelson
- Wikipedias with a page
- 79
Wikidata item Q201279 (wikidata.org/wiki/Q201279), public domain (CC0). Copied November 13, 2026.
What Wikipedia says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 1383090276
Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor. He first became known for his role as charmingly naive 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).
Harrelson received further Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayal of Steve Schmidt in the HBO film Game Change (2012) and detective Marty Hart 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) and a fictionalized version of himself in the Apple TV comedy series Brothers (2026).
- Born, in its opening lines
- July 23, 1961
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