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Actor, Woody Harrelson


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Woody Harrelson

Actor

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An accomplished actor in film, television and on the stage, Woody Harrelson received Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Nominations as Best Actor for his portrayal of magazine publisher Larry Flynt in Milos Forman's THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT. Set for release in 2007 are THE GRAND, an ensemble comedy for director Zak Penn and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, directed by Ethan and Joel Cohen and costarring Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones. Past film credits include, THE HI-LO COUNTY, ED TV, WELCOME TO SARAJEVO, KINGPIN, NATURAL BORN KILLERS, INDECENT PROPOSAL, WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP, A SCANNER DARKLY, NORTH COUNTRY, THE PRIZE WINNER OF DEFINANCE, OHIO and A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION. Harrelson recently wrapped TRANSSIBERIAN for director Brad Anderson. He is currently shooting SEMI PRO with Will Ferrell and Andre Benjamin.


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.


In 1999 Harrelson revived a career long commitment to the theatre by directing his own play, FURTHEST FROM THE SUN. He followed next by starring in 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 in 2002, and in 2003 Harrelson directed the Toronto premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's THIS IS OUR YOUTH. In the winter of 2005 Harrelson returned to London's West End, starring in Tennessee Williams' NIGHT OF THE IGUANA.


A committed environmentalist, Harrelson 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.


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