Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson · Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin R. Pacheco, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Woody Harrelson

b. 1961

American actor (born 1961)

Born
23 Jul 1961 · Midland

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 75 years
  1. 23 Jul 1961BornBorn in Midland
  2. 1989AwardPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
  3. 2008AwardActor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
  4. 2009AwardIndependent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1961 – today).

  1. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  3. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  5. 1968Prague Spring
  6. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  7. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  8. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  9. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  11. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  12. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  13. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  14. 1985Schengen Agreement
  15. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  16. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  17. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  19. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  21. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  22. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  23. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  24. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  25. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  26. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  27. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  28. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  29. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  30. 20112011 Norway attacks
  31. 2011Libyan civil war
  32. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  33. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  34. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  35. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  36. 2015Paris Agreement
  37. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  38. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  39. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  40. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war

Biography

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor. He first became known for his role as charmingly naive 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 has received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), and 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), 2012 (2009), Seven Psychopaths (2012), The Edge of Seventeen (2016), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), Triangle of Sadness (2022), and Suncoast (2024). He also played Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), Chase McKinney / Merritt McKinney in the Now You See Me film series (2013–), and Tobias Beckett in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).

Harrelson received further Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayal of Steve Schmidt in the HBO film Game Change (2012) and detective Marty Hart 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) and a fictionalized version of himself in the Apple TV comedy series Brothers (2026).

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