
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).

Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025 · as Merritt McKinney

No Country for Old Men
2007 · as Carson Wells

2012
2009 · as Charlie Frost

Venom
2018 · as Cletus Kasady / Carnage

Zombieland
2009 · as Tallahassee

Now You See Me
2013 · as Merritt McKinney

The Electric State
2025 · as Mr. Peanut (voice)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 · as Haymitch Abernathy

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 · as Haymitch Abernathy

Now You See Me 2
2016 · as Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney

Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021 · as Cletus Kasady / Carnage

War for the Planet of the Apes
2017 · as The Colonel

Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018 · as Tobias Beckett

Seven Pounds
2008 · as Ezra Turner

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · as Haymitch Abernathy

The Hunger Games
2012 · as Haymitch Abernathy

Indecent Proposal
1993 · as David Murphy

Friends with Benefits
2011 · as Tommy Bollinger