Woody Harrelson
A gifted actor who switched back and forth effortlessly between comedy and drama, Woody Harrelson arrived seemingly out of nowhere, endearing himself to audiences with his portrayal of loveable, but dimwitted bartender Woody Boyd for eight seasons of the classic sitcom, "Cheers" (NBC, 1982-1993). Because of his small screen success, he transitioned effortlessly to features where he became a highly sought-after actor capable of turning in rich and diverse performances. After making his mark as a basketball hustler in the surprise hit "White Men Can't Jump" (1992), Harrelson forever buried his nice guy persona by playing the sociopathic serial murderer Mickey Knox in Oliver Stone's searing satire, "Natural Born Killers" (1994). Harrelson went on to further acclaim and earned an Oscar nomination playing infamous pornographer and First Amendment rights activist Larry Flynt in "The People vs. Larry Flynt" (1996). From there, he stayed mostly in independent films, playing a drunken louse of a husband in "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio" (2005) and a strung-out addict in "A Scanner Darkly" (2006). Following an amiable turn as an unflinching zombie hunter in "Zombieland" (2009), Harrelson delivered another Oscar-worthy performance in the heart-wrenching Iraq War drama, "The Messenger" (2009). Regardless of how big or small the part, Harrelson was able to portray a wide array of challenging and complex characters with equal aplomb.
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Electric State | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2025 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Breath | Unknown (Character) | - | 2025 |
65% |
|
Fly Me to the Moon | Moe Burkus (Character) | $20.3M | 2024 |
77% |
|
Suncoast | Paul Warren (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girl From the North Country | Nick Laine (Character) | - | 2024 |
81% |
|
Common Ground | Self | - | 2023 |
59% |
|
Champions |
Marcus (Character), Executive Producer |
$16.3M | 2023 |
75% |
|
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
71% |
|
Triangle of Sadness | Captain Thomas Smith (Character) | $4.6M | 2022 |
23% |
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The Man From Toronto | The Man From Toronto (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dear Rider | Narrator | - | 2021 |
58% |
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage | Cletus Kasady (Character) | $213.5M | 2021 |
46% |
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Kate | Unknown (Character) | - | 2021 |
88% |
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Kiss the Ground | Narrator | - | 2020 |
80% | No Score Yet | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: 'All in the Family' and 'Good Times' | Archie Bunker (Character) | - | 2019 |
42% |
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Midway | Chester W. Nimitz (Character) | $56.8M | 2019 |
68% |
|
Zombieland: Double Tap | Tallahassee (Character) | $73.1M | 2019 |
91% |
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Jim Allison: Breakthrough | Narrator | - | 2019 |
88% | No Score Yet | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' | Archie Bunker (Character) | - | 2019 |
58% |
|
The Highwaymen |
Maney Gault (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2019 |
30% |
|
Venom | Cletus Kasady (Character) | $213.5M | 2018 |
69% |
|
Solo: A Star Wars Story | Beckett (Character) | $213.8M | 2018 |
28% |
|
Shock and Awe | Jonathan Landay (Character) | $45.9K | 2017 |
90% |
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Willoughby (Character) | $54.1M | 2017 |
52% |
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The Glass Castle | Rex (Character) | $17.2M | 2017 |
94% |
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War for the Planet of the Apes | The Colonel (Character) | $146.8M | 2017 |
47% |
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Wilson | Wilson (Character) | $653.0K | 2017 |
75% |
|
Lost in London |
Self, Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2017 |
55% |
|
LBJ | Lyndon B. Johnson (Character) | $2.5M | 2016 |
94% |
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The Edge of Seventeen | Mr. Bruner (Character) | $14.4M | 2016 |
32% |
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The Duel | Abraham (Character) | - | 2016 |
34% |
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Now You See Me 2 | Merritt McKinney (Character) | $65.0M | 2016 |
54% |
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Triple 9 | Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen (Character) | $12.6M | 2016 |
70% |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 | Haymitch Abernathy (Character) | $281.7M | 2015 |
69% |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 | Haymitch Abernathy (Character) | - | 2014 |
53% |
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Out of the Furnace | Curtis DeGroat (Character) | $11.3M | 2013 |
90% |
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Haymitch Abernathy (Character) | - | 2013 |
20% |
|
Free Birds | Jake (Voice) | $55.7M | 2013 |
51% |
|
Now You See Me | Merritt McKinney (Character) | $117.7M | 2013 |
76% |
|
How to Make Money Selling Drugs | Self | $14.0K | 2012 |
67% |
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Game Change | Steve Schmidt (Character) | - | 2012 |
82% |
|
Seven Psychopaths | Charlie (Character) | $15.0M | 2012 |
84% |
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The Hunger Games | Haymitch Abernathy (Character) | $408.0M | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Ethos | Host | - | 2011 |
73% |
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Rampart | Dave Brown (Character) | $969.2K | 2011 |
69% |
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Friends With Benefits | Tommy (Character) | $55.8M | 2011 |
18% |
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Bunraku | The Bartender (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Hempsters: Plant the Seed | Unknown (Character) | - | 2010 |
72% |
|
Defendor |
Arthur Poppington / |
$37.6K | 2009 |
90% |
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The Messenger | Tony Stone (Character) | $1.1M | 2009 |
40% |
|
2012 | Charlie Frost (Character) | $166.1M | 2009 |
89% |
|
Zombieland | Tallahassee (Character) | $75.6M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Milos Forman - What Doesn't Kill You | Self | - | 2009 |
72% |
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Fuel | Unknown (Character) | $173.8K | 2008 |
46% |
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Management | Jango (Character) | $933.2K | 2008 |
26% |
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Seven Pounds | Ezra (Character) | $70.0M | 2008 |
91% |
|
Transsiberian | Roy (Character) | $2.2M | 2008 |
40% |
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The Grand | One Eyed Jack Faro (Character) | $114.7K | 2008 |
17% |
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Sleepwalking | Randall (Character) | $169.0K | 2008 |
23% |
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Semi-Pro | Monix (Character) | $33.5M | 2008 |
96% |
|
Nanking | Bob Wilson (Character) | $160.1K | 2007 |
55% |
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The Walker | Carter Page III (Character) | $77.2K | 2007 |
93% |
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No Country for Old Men | Carson Wells (Character) | $74.3M | 2007 |
57% |
|
Battle in Seattle | Dale (Character) | $223.5K | 2007 |
68% |
|
A Scanner Darkly | Luckman (Voice) | $5.5M | 2006 |
81% |
|
A Prairie Home Companion | Dusty (Character) | $20.3M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spit | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
10% |
|
Free Jimmy | Roy Arnie (Voice) | - | 2006 |
59% |
|
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio | Leo "Kelly" Ryan (Character) | $626.3K | 2005 |
30% |
|
The Big White | Raymond Barnell (Character) | - | 2005 |
70% |
|
North Country | Bill White (Character) | $18.3M | 2005 |
20% |
|
She Hate Me | Powell (Character) | $365.1K | 2004 |
18% |
|
After the Sunset | Stan Lloyd (Character) | $28.3M | 2004 |
89% |
|
This So-Called Disaster |
Himself / |
$45.2K | 2003 |
42% |
|
Anger Management | Galaxia (Character) | $133.8M | 2003 |
57% |
|
Go Further | Self | - | 2003 |
17% |
|
Scorched | Jason "Woods" Valley (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | American Saint | Self | - | 2001 |
74% |
|
Grass | Narrator | $318.2K | 1999 |
11% |
|
Play It to the Bone | Vince Boudreau (Character) | $8.4M | 1999 |
53% |
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Self | $206.0M | 1999 |
63% |
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EDtv | Ray Pekurny (Character) | $22.4M | 1999 |
80% |
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The Thin Red Line | Sgt. Keck (Character) | $36.4M | 1998 |
54% |
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The Hi-Lo Country | Big Boy Matson (Character) | $163.8K | 1998 |
39% |
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Palmetto | Harry Barber (Character) | $5.8M | 1998 |
78% |
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Welcome to Sarajevo | Flynn (Character) | $339.6K | 1997 |
86% |
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Wag the Dog | Sgt. William Schumann (Character) | $43.0M | 1997 |
17% |
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Sunchaser | Dr. Michael Reynolds (Character) | $23.1K | 1996 |
49% |
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Kingpin | Roy Munson (Character) | $25.0M | 1996 |
88% |
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The People vs. Larry Flynt | Larry Flynt (Character) | $20.2M | 1996 |
22% |
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Money Train | Charlie (Character) | $35.1M | 1995 |
51% |
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Natural Born Killers | Mickey Knox (Character) | - | 1994 |
20% |
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The Cowboy Way | Pepper Lewis (Character) | $19.6M | 1994 |
34% |
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Indecent Proposal | David Murphy (Character) | $104.9M | 1993 |
75% |
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White Men Can't Jump | Billy Hoyle (Character) | $71.6M | 1992 |
67% |
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Doc Hollywood | Hank Gordon (Character) | $51.8M | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ted and Venus | Homeless Vietnam Veteran (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme | Unknown (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Killer Instinct | Charlie Long (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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Cool Blue | Dustin (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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Bay Coven | Slater (Character) | - | 1987 |
26% |
|
Wildcats | Krushinski (Character) | $23.6M | 1986 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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79% | 59% | True Detective |
Martin Hart (Character), Executive Producer, Producer |
2014 2019 2024 |
No Score Yet | 55% | The Freak Brothers | Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (Voice) | 2021 2023 |
69% | 70% | White House Plumbers |
E. Howard Hunt (Character), Executive Producer |
2023 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2017 2023 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2019 2023 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 1989 1992 2014 2019 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2012-2013 2018-2019 |
No Score Yet | 18% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2017 2019 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2008-2009 2012-2013 2017-2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Real Time With Bill Maher | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The View | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2017 |
100% | 78% | Late Show With David Letterman | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2009 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 88% | Will & Grace | Nathan (Guest Star) | 2001 |
95% | 95% | Frasier | Woody Boyd (Guest Star) | 1999 |
68% | No Score Yet | Spin City | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Woody Boyd (Guest Voice) | 1994 |
87% | 95% | Cheers |
Woody Boyd (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
1985-1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dear John | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989 |