Biography
Woody Harrelson, also credited as Woodrow Tracy Harrelson, is an American actor. He was born on 23 July 1961 in Midland, Texas.
He first became known for his role as Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Harrelson received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and for 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), No Country for Old Men (2007), Zombieland (2009), the Now You See Me series (2013–2025) as Merritt McKinney, the Hunger Games series (2012–2015) as Haymitch Abernathy, Venom (2018) and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) as Cletus Kasady / Carnage, and Triangle of Sadness (2022). He also received Primetime Emmy nominations for Game Change (2012), True Detective (2014) and White House Plumbers (2023).
