Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor, activist, and playwright. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee and has won one Emmy Award. Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" might have played even more like a demented nightmare if it hadn't been for the O.J. Simpson case. Maybe Stone meant his movie. Juliette Lewis, Actress: Natural Born Killers. Juliette Lewis has been recognized as one of Hollywood's most talented and versatile actors of her generation since she.

Includes a plot outline, trailer, and cast list. Natural Born Killers is a 1994 American satirical crime film directed by Oliver Stone and starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Sizemore. The final insult: Court terror for Lee Rigby's family as his Muslim killers are dragged from dock shouting 'Allahu akbar' while fighting prison guards - before judge.

Woody Harrelson - Wikipedia. Woody Harrelson. Harrelson at the LBJ premiere, October 2. Born. Woodrow Tracy Harrelson(1. July 2. 3, 1. 96. Midland, Texas, U. S. Nationality. American. Alma mater. Hanover College.

Occupation. Actor, activist, director, playwright. Years active. 19.

Spouse(s)Nancy Simon(m. 1. Laura Louie(m. 2. Children. 3Parent(s)Charles Harrelson. Diane Lou Oswald. Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson[1][2] (born July 2. American actor, activist, and playwright. He is a two- time Academy Award nominee and has won one Emmy Award out of seven nominations.

His breakout role came in 1. Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd, for which he earned five Emmy Award nominations (one win). Some notable film characters include basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't Jump, one- handed bowler Roy Munson in Kingpin, Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series, Pepper Lewis in The Cowboy Way, Tallahassee in Zombieland, 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, magician/mentalist Merritt Mc. Kinney in Now You See Me and the Colonel in War for the Planet of the Apes. For The People vs.

Larry Flynt and The Messenger, Harrelson earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively.[4] In 2. Detective Martin Hart in the first season of the HBO crime drama True Detective with Matthew Mc. Conaughey, which earned him and Mc. Conaughey nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Early life[edit]Harrelson was born in 1. Midland, Texas, the son of Diane (née Oswald) and Charles Voyde Harrelson.[3] He has two brothers, Jordan and Brett Harrelson.[3] In 1.

Harrelson moved to his mother's native city, Lebanon, Ohio, [5] where he attended Lebanon High School. He spent much of his high school years working as a woodcarver at Kings Island amusement park.[citation needed]He attended Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana, where he joined the Sigma Chi fraternity. He received a Bachelor of Arts in theater and English in 1. He told Playboy in October 2. I was getting into theology and studying the roots of the Bible, but then I started to discover the man- made nature of it. I started seeing things that made me ask, 'Is God really speaking through this instrument?' My eyes opened to the reality of the Bible being just a document to control people.

At the time I was a real mama's boy and deeply mesmerized by the church."[6]His father, Charles Voyde Harrelson, was a convicted contract killer (hitman), who received a life sentence for the 1. Federal Judge John H. Wood Jr. in San Antonio, Texas.[7] He died in the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility on March 1. Television[edit]Harrelson is widely known for his work on the NBC sitcom Cheers. He played bartender Woody Boyd, who replaced Coach (played by Nicholas Colasanto, who died in February 1. He joined the cast in 1.

For this role, Harrelson was nominated for five Emmy Awards,[8] winning once in 1. Watch La Casa Nel Tempo Tube Free there. His character, Woody Boyd, was from Hanover, Indiana, where Harrelson attended college. In 1. 99. 9, Harrelson guest- starred in the Cheers spin- off success Frasier, in which he reprised the role of "Woody Boyd". He was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for this performance. He appeared in several 2. Will & Grace as Grace's new boyfriend Nathan.[4].

Harrelson on the red carpet at the 4. Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, August 2. On the November 1. Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, Harrelson was interviewed by Stephen Colbert, to promote his movie The Messenger.

In response to Colbert's questioning of his support for the troops, Harrelson agreed to let Colbert shave his head on camera. Harrelson returned to television in 2. Matthew Mc. Conaughey in the first season of the HBO crime series True Detective, where he plays Marty Hart, a Louisiana cop investigating murders that took place over a timespan of 1. On June 6, 2. 01. Harrelson took part playing in Soccer Aid 2. UNICEF UK at Old Trafford in Manchester. The match was broadcast live on UK's ITV television.

After being brought on as a substitute for Gordon Ramsay, Harrelson took the final penalty in the penalty shootout, following a 2–2 draw after 9. Despite being initially unaware of exactly from where his kick had to be taken, Harrelson scored to win the game for "The Rest of the World" team, beating England for the first time since the tournament began. When later interviewed he claimed that he "didn't even remember the moment of scoring".[4]Harrelson also took part in Soccer Aid 2. May 2. 7, 2. 01. 2. The match ended 3- 1 in favor of England.[9]While still working on Cheers, Harrelson reawakened his film career. His first movie had been Wildcats, a football comedy in 1. Goldie Hawn. He reunited and became friends with Wesley Snipes and starred with him in the box- office hit White Men Can't Jump and the box office bomb.

Money Train.[4]In 1. Robert Redford and Demi Moore in the drama Indecent Proposal, which was a box office success, earning a worldwide total of over $2. He then played Mickey Knox in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers and Dr. Michael Raynolds in the Michael Cimino film The Sunchaser. In 1. 99. 6, he starred in the comedy Kingpin.[4]Harrelson's career gained momentum when he starred in the Miloš Forman film The People vs. Larry Flynt, in which he played Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine.

The film was a success and Harrelson's performance was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Actor. After that, Harrelson was cast in more serious film roles. He starred in the 1. Welcome to Sarajevo and in 1. Sergeant Schumann in Wag the Dog.

In 1. 99. 8, Harrelson starred in the thriller Palmetto and played Sergeant Keck in The Thin Red Line, a war film nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1. Harrelson made other films such as The Hi- Lo Country and portrayed Ray Pekurny in the comedy EDtv. Also in 1. 99. 9, he appeared as boxer Vince Boudreau in the Ron Shelton film Play It to the Bone. Harrelson did not appear in films again until 2. Galaxia in the comedy film Anger Management.[4]He appeared in the action film After the Sunset and the Spike Lee film She Hate Me. In 2. 00. 5, Harrelson was in The Big White and North Country. Also in 2. 00. 5 he appeared as Kelly Ryan, husband of a contest- obsessed woman in the film The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio.

Harrelson made two films in 2. Free Jimmy and also A Scanner Darkly. In 2. 00. 7 he played Carter Page III, gay escort of privileged Washington D.

C. women, in the film The Walker.[4]In the Oscar- winning 2. No Country for Old Men, Harrelson had a key role as Carson Wells, a bounty hunter. The film won Best Picture and Best Director for Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Harrelson also won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast, along with Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Kelly Macdonald.[4]Also in a movie released in 2. Battle in Seattle, Harrelson played another key role of a Seattle police officer whose pregnant wife loses her baby during the World Trade Organization protests in 1. In 2. 00. 8, Harrelson appeared in several films, among them the Will Ferrell basketball comedy Semi- Pro and the Will Smith stark drama Seven Pounds.[4] as a blind vegan meat salesman named Ezra Turner. In 2. 00. 9, Harrelson received significant praise for his performance as Captain Tony Stone in The Messenger.

In what many critics considered to be his best role, Harrelson was nominated for a Satellite Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a Golden Globe Award a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Harrelson has also won the Best Supporting Actor award in the 2. National Board of Review award ceremonies and received accolades from various critics' societies.[4]In 2. Zombieland, followed by Roland Emmerich's 2. Charlie Frost, a man who warns of the end of the world.