Woody Harrelson

American actor

Woody Harrelson is an American actor. His first major role was the TV series Cheers, in which he played bartender Woody Boyd from 1985 to 1993, and won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1989 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Later on, he would star in the first season of the crime series True Detective.

Harrelson has appeared in many feature films as well, starring in notable movies such as Natural Born Killers, The People vs. Larry Flynt, No Country for Old Men, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. He also played Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series, appeared in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and starred in the Apple Original Film Fly Me to the Moon with Scarlett Johansson.

He made his directorial debut in 2017 with Lost in London—which he also wrote and starred in—produced and starred in White House Plumbers, and co-hosted the podcast Where Everybody Knows Your Name alongside Ted Danson.