Woody Harrelson’s rare mix of intensity and charisma delights audiences and critics in both mainstream and independent projects. His performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri earned a 2018 Academy Award® nomination for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He was nominated for Best Actor by the Academy, The Golden Globes® and SAG Awards® for his portrayal of Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt. He garnered an Academy Award® nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a casualty notification officer in The Messenger.
Harrelson can currently be seen opposite Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in Apple Original Films’ Fly Me To The Moon, a film about the 1960s space race directed by Greg Berlanti. Harrelson next joins Simu Liu and Finn Cole in Last Breath for Focus Features, a true story based on the 2019 documentary of the same name. He recently completed shooting Ella McCay opposite Jamie Lee Curtis, and appeared in Searchlight Film’s drama Suncoast, which premiered at Sundance.
Harrelson recently starred opposite Justin Theroux in The White House Plumbers, and in the sports comedy, Champions. He can be seen in Triangle of Sadness which debuted at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme D’Or and received an eight-minute standing ovation.
Other recent film credits include The Man From Toronto; Venom: Let There Be Carnage; The Highwaymen; Midway; Lucasfilm’s Solo: A Star Wars Story; Shock and Awe; LBJ; The Glass Castle; War for the Planet of the Apes; The Edge of Seventeen; Wilson; Now You See Me 2; and Triple Nine.
Harrelson wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the 2017 unprecedented live feature film Lost in London, opposite Owen Wilson and Willie Nelson. Other film highlights include Rampart; Zombieland and Zombieland: Double Tap; Out of the Furnace; The Hunger Games film series; Now You See Me; The Grand; No Country For Old Men; A Scanner Darkly; A Prairie Home Companion; Seven Pounds; The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio; Seven Psychopaths; North Country; Transsiberian; The Thin Red Line; Welcome To Sarajevo; Natural Born Killers; Indecent Proposal; White Men Can’t Jump and Ethos.
On television, Harrelson most recently reprised his role as ‘Archie Bunker’ in two episodes of the Critics’ Choice and Emmy-winning ABC special Live In Front Of A Studio Audience. Harrelson rose to fame playing ‘Woody Boyd,’ the affable bartender in NBC’s Cheers, for which he won a Primetime Emmy® and was nominated four additional times during his eight-year run on the show. He earned another Emmy® nomination for reprising his role on the spin-off series Frasier. Other television credits include True Detective and Game Changer, for which he earned Primetime Emmy®, SAG Awards®, and Golden Globe® nominations.
In 1999, Harrelson directed his own play, Furthest From The Sun at Minneapolis’ Theatre de la Juene Lune. He followed next with the Broadway revival of The Rainmaker, The Late Henry Moss, On An Average Day, and Night of the Iguana. He directed This Is Our Youth at Toronto’s Berkeley Street Theater. Harrelson co-wrote and directed Bullet for Adolf at Toronto’s Hart House Theater, which made its Off-Broadway debut in summer of 2012.
Harrelson recently starred in Champions, a heartfelt comedy where he plays a basketball coach tasked with leading a team of players with intellectual disabilities. The film features differently-abled actors portraying the team, resulting in a ground-breaking and touching experience. Harrelson’s performance helped bring warmth and humor to the story, earning praise for its authenticity and heart.
GLOBAL is honored to announce Woody Harrelson as a 2024 Quincy Jones Exceptional Advocacy Awardee!
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