Woody Harrelson
Biography
Woody Harrelson is an American actor who became known as Woody Boyd, the bartender on the NBC sitcom Cheers, a role that earned him a supporting actor Emmy for comedy. He has received three Academy Award nominations, for his leading role in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and for supporting work in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and The Messenger (2009). His films include Natural Born Killers (1994), No Country for Old Men (2007), Zombieland (2009), The Edge of Seventeen (2016), Seven Psychopaths (2012), and Triangle of Sadness (2022). He played Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games series and appeared in Now You See Me, Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021). On television, he earned Emmy nominations for Game Change (2012) and True Detective (2014) and starred in White House Plumbers (2023).
65years old
Turns 66 on July 23in 278 days
- Born Midland
- Star sign: LeoFirst day of the sign, on the Cancer cusp
- Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 92
- Career span
- 48 years1978 to 2026
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Behind the camera
Harrelson wrote and directed the play Bullet for Adolf with Frankie Hyman, staging it at Toronto's Hart House Theatre in 2011 before it opened Off-Broadway in 2012.
Behind the camera
Harrelson directed, wrote, produced and starred in Lost in London, a film shot in a single take that premiered live in 2017.
First role
Harrelson began making movies while he was still on Cheers. Wildcats, a 1986 football comedy starring Goldie Hawn, was his first film.
Big break
Harrelson joined Cheers in 1985 as bartender Woody Boyd for season four and stayed the final eight seasons, earning five Emmy nominations and one win.
Beyond film
Harrelson returned to London's West End in the winter of 2005-2006 to star in Tennessee Williams' Night of the Iguana at the Lyric Theater.
Woody Harrelson movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri2017 Comedy, Crime, Dramaas Willoughby
IMDb rating 8.1616K votes
Most often with
Ruben Fleischer directed four of these films, Francis Lawrence three and Martin McDonagh two. Two actors appear in six of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Ruben FleischerDirector, 4 films, 2009 to 2025
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All films by Francis Lawrence
Martin McDonaghDirector, 2 films, 2012 to 2017
All films by Martin McDonagh
Also five films together3 more actors
- Josh HutchersonThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2015), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) and The Hunger Games (2012)
- Jennifer LawrenceThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2015), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) and The Hunger Games (2012)
- Willow ShieldsThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2015), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) and The Hunger Games (2012)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Woody Harrelson's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$9.5 billion
71 of the 92 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 92 films: 71 worldwide figure; 6 us gross only; 7 never in cinemas; 3 streaming, short cinema run; 5 figure not found.
- 71Worldwide figure
- 6US gross only
- 7Never in cinemas
- 3Streaming, short cinema run
- 5Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 59% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$865M9.1% of the total
- 2$856M9.0% of the total
- 3$791M8.3% of the total
- 4$755M7.9% of the total
- 5$694M7.3% of the total
- 6$653M6.9% of the total
- 7$507M5.3% of the total
- 8$491M5.1% of the total
$3.9 billionfrom the other 63 films with a worldwide figure, 41% of the total
Awards
Three awards and honors from 1989 to 2009, two of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmy Awards | |||
| 1989 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Cheers | Won |
| SAG Awards | |||
| 2008 | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | Won | |
| Other honors | |||
| 2009 | Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male | The Messenger | Won |
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