1. Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson was born on July 23,1961 and is an American actor.
61 Facts About Woody Harrelson
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Woody Harrelson first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from five nominations.
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Woody Harrelson played Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series.
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Woody Harrelson received further Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayal of Steve Schmidt in the HBO film Game Change and a detective in the HBO crime anthology series True Detective.
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Woody Harrelson portrayed E Howard Hunt in the HBO political limited series White House Plumbers.
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Woodrow Tracy Woody Harrelson was born in Midland, Texas, to secretary Diane and convicted hitman Charles Voyde Woody Harrelson.
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Woody Harrelson was raised in a Presbyterian household alongside his two brothers, Jordan and Brett, the latter of whom became an actor.
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Woody Harrelson has stated he had little contact with his father during childhood.
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Woody Harrelson's family was poor and relied on his mother's wages.
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Woody Harrelson spent the summer of 1979 working at Kings Island amusement park.
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Woody Harrelson attended Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana, where he studied theater and English.
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Woody Harrelson is widely known for his work on the NBC sitcom Cheers.
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Woody Harrelson played bartender Woody Boyd, who replaced Coach.
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Woody Harrelson joined the cast in 1985 in season four, spending the final eight seasons on the show.
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Woody Harrelson followed his performance in Wildcats with the 1990 romantic comedy Cool Blue, alongside Hank Azaria.
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Woody Harrelson reunited with Wesley Snipes in the box-office hit White Men Can't Jump and the action movie Money Train.
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In 1993, Woody Harrelson starred opposite Robert Redford and Demi Moore in the drama Indecent Proposal, which was a box office success, earning a worldwide total of over $265,000,000.
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Woody Harrelson then played Mickey Knox in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers and Dr Michael Raynolds in the Michael Cimino film The Sunchaser.
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Woody Harrelson appeared in the action film After the Sunset and the Spike Lee film She Hate Me.
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In 2005, Woody Harrelson was in The Big White and North Country.
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Woody Harrelson directed Bullet for Adolf at the esteemed Hart House Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, which ran from April 21 to May 7,2011.
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Woody Harrelson made two films in 2006, the animated film version of Free Jimmy and A Scanner Darkly the latter being written and directed by Richard Linklater.
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In June 6,2010, Woody Harrelson took part playing in Soccer Aid 2010 for UNICEF UK at Old Trafford in Manchester.
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Woody Harrelson narrated the 2011 film ETHOS, which explores the idea of a self-destructing modern society, governed by unequal power and failed democratic ideals.
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Woody Harrelson took part in Soccer Aid 2012 on May 27,2012.
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Woody Harrelson played Haymitch Abernathy in 2012's The Hunger Games, and reprised the role in all three subsequent films in the series which ended in 2015.
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Woody Harrelson acted alongside Julianne Moore, Sarah Paulson, and Ed Harris.
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The AMA turned into a PR disaster when Woody Harrelson failed to make meaningful responses to any questions and soon specifically refused to respond to anything not directly related to the then-upcoming worldwide release of the crime drama Rampart, in which he starred and received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.
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Woody Harrelson returned to television in 2014, starring along with Matthew McConaughey in the first season of the HBO crime series True Detective, where he played Marty Hart, a Louisiana cop investigating murders that took place over a timespan of 17 years.
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Woody Harrelson played police chief Bill Willoughby in the black comedy crime film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, released in 2017, for which he received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.
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In 2018, Woody Harrelson played Tobias Beckett, a criminal and Han Solo's mentor in Lucasfilm's Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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In 2018, Woody Harrelson appeared in a cameo at the end of the film Venom, portraying Cletus Kasady, and he reprised the role as the main antagonist, voicing the symbiote Carnage who joins with Kasady, in the 2021 sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
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In 1985, Woody Harrelson married Nancy Simon in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Woody Harrelson was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Hanover College in 2014.
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Woody Harrelson made the ceremonial first move for the game.
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Woody Harrelson had played the ceremonial first move for the previous World Chess Championship, held in New York City in 2016.
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In 1999 in Prague, Woody Harrelson, playing White, employed the Parham Attack, named after Bernard Parham, to draw World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov.
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However, Woody Harrelson was aided by several chess Grandmasters who were in Prague to spectate the chess match between GM Alexei Shirov and GM Judit Polgar.
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In 2020, Woody Harrelson was seen practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu while filming, having received the first stripe on his white belt.
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Woody Harrelson joined Phillips on a trip to Vietnam, where Phillips's father was killed in a helicopter crash.
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Woody Harrelson was a religious Presbyterian as a child, and studied theology during college.
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On June 1,1996, Woody Harrelson was arrested in Lee County, Kentucky, after symbolically planting four hemp seeds to challenge the state law that did not distinguish between industrial hemp and marijuana.
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Kilburn and Deputy Sheriff Danny Towsend arrived at the location where Woody Harrelson informed them he would be.
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Woody Harrelson was released on $200 bail the same day.
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Woody Harrelson later signed autographs and posed for photos with deputies.
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Woody Harrelson was acquitted of those charges with the help of Nunn after just 25 minutes.
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In 2002, Woody Harrelson was arrested in London after an incident in a taxi that ended in a police chase.
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Woody Harrelson was taken to a London police station and later released on bail.
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Woody Harrelson is an enthusiast and supporter of the legalization of marijuana and hemp.
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Woody Harrelson was a guest on Ziggy Marley's track "Wild and Free", a song advocating the growing of cannabis.
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Since 2003, Woody Harrelson has served as a member on NORML's advisory board.
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Woody Harrelson has attended environmental events such as the PICNIC'07 festival that was held in Amsterdam in September 2007.
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Woody Harrelson once traveled to the west coast in the US on a bike and a domino caravan with a hemp oil-fueled biodiesel bus with the Spitfire Agency and narrated the 1999 documentary Grass.
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Woody Harrelson briefly owned an oxygen bar in West Hollywood called "O2".
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In June 2010, Woody Harrelson took part in Soccer Aid at Old Trafford in Manchester to raise money for UNICEF.
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In 2002, Harrelson wrote an article in the British newspaper The Guardian condemning President George W Bush's preparation for a US invasion of Iraq as a "racist and imperialist war".
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Woody Harrelson stated that he was against the US's previous war in Iraq and President Bill Clinton's sanctions against Iraq.
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In 2013, Woody Harrelson condemned President Barack Obama for failing to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan, negatively comparing him to Richard Nixon.
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Woody Harrelson's acting credits have earned him global recognition, having garnered him nominations for seven Primetime Emmy Awards, three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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On television, his breakthrough role as bartender Woody Harrelson Boyd earned him five Emmy nominations in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, with one win.
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Woody Harrelson later returned to the small screen with roles in the comedy series Frasier and the 2012 television film Game Change, for which he received two more Emmy nominations: for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie, respectively.