Woody Harrelson
Woodrow Tracy “Woody” Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is a European-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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Woody Harrelson Movies
Discover the best Woody Harrelson movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Woody Harrelson ranked by year and score.
1
Ella McCay (2025)
Comedy
Drama
Ella McCay has spent years learning how politics works from the best in the business, and now the governorship is finally within reach. The timing, of course, could not be...
Score
5.5
2
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025)
Crime
Thriller
The Four Horsemen are back, but this time they are sharing the stage. When Veronika Vanderberg, a diamond heiress running a vast criminal network of money laundering and human trafficking,...
Score
6.5
3
The Electric State (2025)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
In a retro-futuristic America littered with the wreckage of a drone war, a teenage orphan follows a strange, battered robot across a fractured landscape in search of the brother she...
Score
6.5
4
Last Breath (2025)
Drama
Thriller
Hundreds of feet beneath the surface, a diver is stranded, oxygen running low, with no guarantee that anyone can reach him in time. His crewmates, seasoned veterans of the deep...
Score
6.9
5
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Comedy
Drama
When a glamorous model couple score an invitation aboard a superyacht crammed with billionaires and influencers, the photo opportunities seem endless. Then a storm hits, the eccentric Marxist captain finds...
Score
7.0
6
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Eddie Brock and his alien passenger Venom have reached an uneasy truce, bickering through their shared body like the world's most dysfunctional odd couple. That fragile arrangement gets stress-tested when...
Score
6.7
7
Midway (2019)
Action
History
War
June 1942. Four Japanese aircraft carriers versus a battered American fleet running on intelligence, improvisation, and sheer nerve. Roland Emmerich reconstructs the pivotal Pacific battle through the eyes of the...
Score
7.1
8
Venom (2018)
Action
Science Fiction
Eddie Brock was already a wreck before the alien showed up. A disgraced investigative journalist scraping for a second act, he stumbles into contact with Venom, a ferocious extraterrestrial symbiote...
Score
6.8
9
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Before the Rebellion, before the Falcon, there was just a quick-talking kid from the Corellian streets with a talent for getting into trouble. Ron Howard's origin story tracks the young...
Score
6.6
10
Shock and Awe (2017)
Drama
History
Thriller
As the Bush administration beats the drums for war, a scrappy band of reporters refuse to accept the official narrative about Iraqi weapons. Their investigations reveal troubling gaps in the...
Score
6.3
11
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Crime
Drama
Seven months after her daughter's brutal murder, Mildred Hayes is done waiting. She rents three roadside billboards and plants a very public accusation aimed squarely at the town's beloved police...
Score
8.1
12
The Glass Castle (2017)
Drama
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents who called the open road freedom and called hunger a character-building exercise. Her father, Rex, was a brilliant, bottle-dependent dreamer who promised to build...
Score
7.1
13
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Drama
Science Fiction
War
Caesar has led his apes through war and survival, but nothing has prepared him for what comes next. When a brutal military colonel destroys everything Caesar holds dear, grief pulls...
Score
7.2
14
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Katniss Everdeen has become a symbol, but symbols can be destroyed. In the final push against the Capitol, she abandons the safety of the rebel command to join a squad...
Score
6.9
15
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
Adventure
Science Fiction
Thriller
Pulled from the arena and delivered to the underground bunkers of District 13, Katniss Everdeen is asked to do something harder than survival: become a symbol. The rebellion needs a...
Score
6.8
16
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Winning was supposed to mean safety. Instead, Katniss Everdeen finds her victory tour turning into a powder keg, as whispers of rebellion spread through Panem's oppressed districts. President Snow sees...
Score
7.4
17
The Hunger Games (2012)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Katniss Everdeen lives in the ruins of what was once North America, where a brutal government keeps its districts in line by forcing children to kill each other on live...
Score
7.2
18
Rampart (2011)
Crime
Drama
Dave Brown has been bending the rules of the LAPD for so long he no longer recognizes them as rules at all. Set against the smoldering aftermath of the Rampart...
Score
5.5
19
Friends with Benefits (2011)
Comedy
Romance
Dylan and Jamie are two professionally driven New Yorkers who have sworn off the mess of modern romance. Convinced they can outsmart their own feelings, they agree to keep things...
Score
6.6
20
2012 (2009)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Solar activity is tearing the planet apart from the inside out, and a small circle of scientists and world leaders already know it. While governments secretly construct massive arks to...
Score
5.9
21
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Crime
Thriller
Western
A West Texas hunting trip turns catastrophic when Llewelyn Moss walks into the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and walks out carrying two million dollars he has no...
Score
7.9
22
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Animation
Science Fiction
Thriller
Set in a near-future California drowning in surveillance and substance abuse, Richard Linklater's rotoscoped adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel follows an undercover narcotics officer so deep inside the drug...
Score
6.8
23
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Animation
Science Fiction
Thriller
Set in a near-future California drowning in surveillance and substance abuse, Richard Linklater's rotoscoped adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel follows a narcotics officer so deep undercover that he begins...
Score
6.8
24
North Country (2005)
Drama
Based on one of the most consequential legal battles in American labor history, the film follows a woman who takes a job in a Minnesota iron mine during the 1980s...
Score
7.2
25
Anger Management (2003)
Comedy
Dave Buznik is the kind of guy who apologizes for being bumped into. So when a minor incident on a flight somehow lands him in court-ordered therapy, it feels like...
Score
6.2
26
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Drama
History
War
Terrence Malick turns the Pacific campaign at Guadalcanal into something closer to a philosophical reckoning than a conventional war film. C-for-Charlie Company arrives expecting resistance and finds something worse: a...
Score
7.4
27
White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
Comedy
Drama
Billy Hoyle looks like he wandered onto the wrong court, and that is exactly the point. The white guy in a Jimi Hendrix shirt gets dismissed by every pickup game...
Score
6.6
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the highest-rated movies starring Woody Harrelson?
According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Woody Harrelson are Ella McCay, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, and The Electric State.
How many movies and TV shows has Woody Harrelson starred in?
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 27 titles starring Woody Harrelson, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
Are the movies starring Woody Harrelson worth watching?
Yes! The overall filmography starring Woody Harrelson maintains a strong average user rating of 6.8 out of 10 across all tracked titles.