Woody Harrelson

An accomplished actor in film, television, and on the stage, Woody Harrelson has received Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild nominations as Best Actor for his critically acclaimed portrayal of controversial magazine publisher Larry Flynt in Milos Forman's drama, The People Vs. Larry Flynt.

Harrelson was most recently seen in Bret Ratner's After the Sunset with Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek. Upcoming films include Mark Mylod's The Big White with Robin Williams and Holly Hunter, Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly with Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey, Jr., and Winona Ryder, and Jane Anderson's The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio with Julianne Moore.

Past film credits include Play It to the Bone, The Thin Red Line, The Hi-Lo County, Ed TV, Wag the Dog, Welcome to Sarajevo, Kingpin, Natural Born Killers, Indecent Proposal, and White Men Can’t Jump.

A committed environmentalist, Harrelson recently joined his activism with his film efforts in Ron Mann's Go Further, a road documentary following Woody and friends on their bicycle journey down the Pacific Coast Highway from Seattle to Santa Barbara.

Harrelson first endeared himself to millions of viewers as a member of the ensemble cast of NBC's long-running hit comedy Cheers. For his work as the affable bartender Woody Boyd, he won an Emmy in 1988 and was nominated four additional times during his eight-year run on the show. He later made a return to television with a recurring guest role on the hit NBC series Will and Grace.

Balancing his film and television work, in 1999 Harrelson revived a career-long commitment to the theatre by directing his own play, Furthest From the Sun, at the Theatre de la Juene Lune in Minneapolis. He went on to work in the theatre every year since, following next with the Roundabout's Broadway revival of the N. Richard Nash play The Rainmaker in 2000, Sam Sheperd's The Late Henry Moss in 2001, John Kolvenbach's On An Average Day opposite Kyle MacLachlan in London's West End in the fall of 2002, and in the summer of 2003 Harrelson directed the Toronto premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's This is Our Youth at the Berkeley Street Theatre.

Along with being daddy to his two beautiful daughters, closest to his heart is www.voiceyourself.com, a website Harrelson co-created with his wife Laura Louie that promotes and inspires individual action to create global momentum towards simple organic living and to restore balance and harmony to our planet.