# Woody Harrelson filmography

Woody Harrelson is an American actor who made his film debut as an uncredited extra in Harper Valley PTA (1978). His breakthrough role was as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), which garnered Harrelson a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from a total of five nominations. He would later reprise the character in other television shows, such as Frasier and The Simpsons. In 1992, Harrelson starred opposite Wesley Snipes in White Men Can't Jump. He then appeared in the Oliver Stone-directed Natural Born Killers (1994) alongside Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Downey Jr. For his performance as free-speech activist Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and an Academy Award for Best Actor. He next appeared in The Thin Red Line (1998).
From 1999 to 2000, Harrelson acted in the Broadway revival of The Rainmaker. He then had a minor role in the 2003 comedy Anger Management. From 2005 to 2006, Harrelson played Rev. Shannon in a London production of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana. His next film role was as bounty hunter Carson Wells in the Coen brothers-directed No Country for Old Men (2007), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. That year he also portrayed physician Robert O. Wilson in the documentary Nanking. In 2008, Harrelson starred opposite Will Ferrell in Semi-Pro and Will Smith in Seven Pounds. His work in The Messenger (2009) garnered him an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. He then starred in Zombieland (2009), later returning to the franchise in Zombieland: Double Tap (2019).
Harrelson starred as Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games (2012). He would return to the role for three more films: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014), and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015). He then played the title role in the 2016 biopic LBJ. For his performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Harrelson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, but he lost both to co-star Sam Rockwell. That year, he also portrayed the militaristic "Colonel" in War for the Planet of the Apes. The following year, he appeared in the Ron Howard-directed Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). He then portrayed Admiral Chester Nimitz in the Roland Emmerich-directed Midway (2019), after having a minor role in Emmerich's 2012 (2009). During the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, he portrayed candidate Joe Biden for multiple episodes of Saturday Night Live. In 2021, Harrelson portrayed serial killer Cletus Kasady and voiced the symbiote Carnage in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) film Venom: Let There Be Carnage, having first played the former character in a mid-credits cameo in Venom (2018).

## Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1978 | Harper Valley PTA | Extra | Uncredited |
| 1986 | Wildcats | Krushinski | |
| 1990 | Cool Blue | Dustin | |
| 1991 | L.A. Story | Station manager | Uncredited |
| 1991 | Doc Hollywood | Hank Gordon | |
| 1991 | Ted & Venus | Homeless Vietnam Veteran | |
| 1992 | White Men Can't Jump | Billy Hoyle | |
| 1993 | Indecent Proposal | David Murphy | |
| 1994 | Natural Born Killers | Mickey Knox | |
| 1994 | The Cowboy Way | Pepper Lewis | |
| 1994 | I'll Do Anything | Ground Zero Hero | |
| 1995 | Money Train | Charlie Robinson | |
| 1996 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Larry Flynt | |
| 1996 | Kingpin | Roy Munson | |
| 1996 | The Sunchaser | Dr. Michael Reynolds | |
| 1997 | Wag the Dog | Sgt. William Schumann | |
| 1997 | Welcome to Sarajevo | Jordan Flynn | |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | Sgt. William Keck | |
| 1998 | Palmetto | Harry Barber | |
| 1998 | The Hi-Lo Country | Big Boy Matson | |
| 1999 | Play It to the Bone | Vince Boudreau | |
| 1999 | EDtv | Ray Pekurny | |
| 1999 | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Himself | |
| 1999 | Grass | Narrator (voice) | |
| 2000 | Welcome To Hollywood | Himself | Cameo |
| 2003 | Anger Management | Galaxia / Security Gary | |
| 2003 | Go Further | Himself | |
| 2003 | Scorched | Jason "Woods" Valley | |
| 2004 | After the Sunset | Stanley "Stan" P. Lloyd | |
| 2004 | She Hate Me | Lenald Power | |
| 2005 | North Country | Bill White | |
| 2005 | The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio | Leo "Kelly" Ryan | |
| 2005 | The Big White | Raymond "Ray" Barnell | |
| 2006 | Free Jimmy | Roy Arnie (voice) | |
| 2006 | A Scanner Darkly | Ernie Luckman | |
| 2006 | A Prairie Home Companion | Dusty | |
| 2007 | The Walker | Carter Page III | |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Carson Wells | |
| 2007 | Battle in Seattle | Dale | |
| 2007 | The Grand | One Eyed Jack Faro | |
| 2007 | Nanking | Robert O. "Bob" Wilson | |
| 2008 | Semi-Pro | Ed Monix | |
| 2008 | Sleepwalking | Randall | |
| 2008 | Transsiberian | Roy | |
| 2008 | Surfer, Dude | Jack Mayweather | |
| 2008 | Management | Jango | |
| 2008 | Seven Pounds | Ezra Turner | |
| 2009 | The Messenger | Captain Anthony "Tony" Stone | |
| 2009 | Defendor | Arthur Poppington / Defendor | |
| 2009 | Zombieland | Tallahassee | |
| 2009 | 2012 | Charlie Frost | |
| 2010 | Bunraku | The Bartender | |
| 2010 | Hempsters: Plant the Seed | Himself | |
| 2011 | Friends with Benefits | Tommy Bollinger | |
| 2011 | Ethos | Narrator (voice) | |
| 2011 | Rampart | David Douglas "Dave" Brown | |
| 2012 | The Hunger Games | Haymitch Abernathy | |
| 2012 | Seven Psychopaths | Charlie Costello | |
| 2013 | How to Make Money Selling Drugs | Himself | |
| 2013 | Now You See Me | Merritt McKinney | |
| 2013 | Out of the Furnace | Harlan DeGroat | |
| 2013 | Free Birds | Jake (voice) | |
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Haymitch Abernathy | |
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 | Haymitch Abernathy | |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 | Haymitch Abernathy | |
| 2016 | Triple 9 | Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen | |
| 2016 | Now You See Me 2 | Chase McKinney / Merritt McKinney | |
| 2016 | The Duel | Abraham Brant | |
| 2016 | LBJ | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| 2016 | The Edge of Seventeen | Max Bruner | |
| 2017 | Lost in London | Himself | Also director, producer and writer |
| 2017 | Wilson | Wilson | |
| 2017 | War for the Planet of the Apes | Colonel J. Wesley McCullough | |
| 2017 | The Glass Castle | Rex Walls | |
| 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Sheriff Bill Willoughby | |
| 2017 | Shock and Awe | Jonathan Landay | |
| 2018 | Solo: A Star Wars Story | Tobias Beckett | |
| 2018 | Venom | Cletus Kasady / Red | Mid-credits cameo |
| 2019 | The Highwaymen | Maney Gault | Also executive producer |
| 2019 | Zombieland: Double Tap | Tallahassee | |
| 2019 | Midway | Admiral Chester Nimitz | |
| 2020 | Kiss The Ground | Narrator | |
| 2021 | Kate | Varrick | |
| 2021 | Venom: Let There Be Carnage | Cletus Kasady / Carnage (voice) | |
| 2022 | Triangle of Sadness | Captain Thomas Smith | |
| 2022 | The Man from Toronto | Randy | |
| 2023 | Champions | Marcus Marakovich | Also executive producer |
| 2024 | Suncoast | Paul Warren | |
| 2024 | Fly Me to the Moon | Moe Berkus | |
| 2025 | The Electric State | Mr. Peanut (voice) | |
| 2025 | Last Breath | Duncan Allcock | |
| 2025 | Now You See Me 3 | Merritt McKinney | Post-production |
| 2025 | Ella McCay | TBA | Post-production |

## Television

| Year | Title | Roles | Notes |
| 1985–1993 | Cheers | Woody Boyd | 196 episodes |
| 1987 | Bay Coven | Slater | Television film |
| 1988 | Mickey's 60th Birthday | Woody Boyd | Television special |
| 1989 | Dear John | Richard | Episode: "Love and Marriage" |
| 1989–2023 | Saturday Night Live | Himself (host) | 5 episodes |
| 1990 | Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme | Lou the Lamb | Television film |
| 1994 | The Simpsons | Woody Boyd (voice) | Episode: "Fear of Flying" |
| 1996 | Spin City | Tommy Dugan | Episode: "Meet Tommy Dugan" |
| 1999 | Frasier | Woody Boyd | Episode: "The Show Where Woody Shows Up" |
| 2001–2002 | Will & Grace | Nathan | 7 episodes |
| 2012 | Game Change | Steve Schmidt | Television film |
| 2013 | David Blaine: Real or Magic | Himself | Television special |
| 2014 | True Detective | Martin "Marty" Hart | 8 episodes; also executive producer |
| 2019 | Live in Front of a Studio Audience | Archie Bunker | 2 episodes |
| 2019 | Saturday Night Live | Joe Biden | 3 episodes |
| 2020–present | The Freak Brothers | Freewheelin' Franklin Freek (voice) | Main role; also executive producer |
| 2021 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Himself | Episode: "The Watermelon" |
| 2023 | White House Plumbers | E. Howard Hunt | 5 episodes; also executive producer |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Location | Notes |
| 1985–1986 | Biloxi Blues | Joseph Wykowski, Roy Selridge (standbys) | Neil Simon Theatre | |
| 1987–1988 | The Boys Next Door | Jack | Lamb's Theatre | |
| 1999–2000 | The Rainmaker | Bill Starbuck | Brooks Atkinson Theatre | |
| 2002 | On an Average Day | Bob | Harold Pinter Theatre, London | |
| 2005–2006 | The Night of the Iguana | Shannon | Lyric Theatre, London | |
| 2012 | Bullet for Adolf | — | New World Stages Stage IV | Director and playwright |
| 2023–2024 | Ulster American | Jay | Riverside Studios, London | |

## Music video

| Year | Title | Performer | Album | Ref. |
| 2015 | "Song for someone" | U2 | Songs of Innocence (single) | |

## Audio

| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 2023 | White House Plumbers Podcast | Himself | 3 episodes | |