"Where are the fucking Twinkies?"
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor, activist from Texas, and "inbred hempseed".His Star-Making Role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd .
Some notable film characters include basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't Jump, a crippled bowler in Kingpin, serial killer Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, magazine publisher Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt, country singer Dusty in A Prairie Home Companion, bounty hunter Carson Wells in No Country for Old Men, zombie killer Tallahassee in Zombieland, blind piano player/meat salesman Ezra Turner in Seven Pounds, conspiracy nut Charlie Frost in 2012, the titular mentally-challenged superhero in Defendor, Cpt. Tony Stone in The Messenger, Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series, and Merritt McKinney in Now You See Me.
For The People vs. Larry Flynt and The Messenger, Harrelson earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and best Supporting Actor, respectively.
In 2014, he starred in the HBO crime drama True Detective with Matthew McConaughey.
Filmography
- Cheers (1985-1993)
- Wildcats (1986)
- L.A. Story (1991)
- Doc Hollywood (1991)
- White Men Can't Jump (1992)
- Indecent Proposal (1993)
- Natural Born Killers (1994)
- Money Train (1995)
- The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
- Kingpin (1996)
- Wag the Dog (1997)
- The Thin Red Line (1998)
- Frasier (1999)
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
- Anger Management (2003)
- After the Sunset (2004)
- North Country (2005)
- A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
- A Scanner Darkly (2006)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Seven Pounds (2008)
- The Messenger (2009)
- Defendor (2009)
- Zombieland (2009)
- Bunraku (2010)
- Friends with Benefits (2011)
- Game Change (2012)
- The Hunger Games film series (2012-2015)
- Seven Psychopaths (2012)
- Now You See Me (2013)
- True Detective (2014)
- Wilson (2017)
- War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
- LBJ (2017)
- Solo (2018)
- Venom (2018)
- The Highwaymen (2019)
Tropes
- Bald of Awesome: Currently.
- Career Resurrection: While he wasn't completely gone, Zombieland introduced him to a new generation of fans.
- The Danza: Shares his first name with his Star-Making Role, Woody Boyd .
- Dark and Troubled Past: He had a very troubled early life. But let's not go there.
- Granola Guy: He's raw foodist vegan and an environmental activist.
- Never Live It Down: On Reddit he will always be known for his disastrous AMA interview , which was almost certainly performed by an agent with little understanding of the system. Rampart is now used as shorthand for poor interviews.
- Nice Hat: He's a collector of hats.
- Rebellious Spirit: He describes himself as an anarchist.
- Star-Making Role: As Woody Boyd in Cheers.
- The Stoner: Harrelson is an avid user of pot and is pro-legalization, so he's acquired a fame for this.
- Those Two Actors: Being in the industry for so long, he co-starred with many actors and actresses more than once.
- Typecasting: Since his Career Resurrection, he has notably played quite a few grizzled mentor figures.
- The Unintelligible: Not really, but Woody has a tendency to mumble his lines, which has led to people thinking of him as this.