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Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

Biography

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).

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CritifyHub Reviews Featuring Woody Harrelson

Dystopia in Sharp Focus: The Hunger Games’ Cinematic Rebellion

on The Hunger Games | Jul 24, 2025

The Hunger Games (2012), directed by Gary Ross, transforms Suzanne Collins’ novel into a visually arresting and emotionally resonant dystopian spectacle, leveraging its incisive world-building and Jen... Read more

Triangle of Sadness: A Deliciously Savage Feast of Excess and Collapse

on Triangle of Sadness | Jun 09, 2025

Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness is a film that swallows the rich whole then spits them back out, chewed up and stripped bare. This Palme d’Or-winning satire is a masterclass in controlled chaos, a... Read more

The Fever Dream of Fury: Natural Born Killers as a Chaotic Mirror

on Natural Born Killers | Jun 06, 2025

Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers (1994) is a Molotov cocktail of a film, a frenetic, kaleidoscopic assault on the senses that doesn’t so much tell a story as detonate one. Born from a Quentin Taran... Read more

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