Woodrow Tracy Harrelson is an American actor and playwright. He is best known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. He played Marty Hart in the first season of the HBO crime anthology series True Detective. He appeared in several episodes of Will & Grace as Grace’s new boyfriend Nathan.
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Woodrow Tracy Harrelson is an American actor and playwright. He is best known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. He played Marty Hart in the first season of the HBO crime anthology series True Detective. In 2010, he took part playing in Soccer AidF UK for UNICEF UK at Old Trafford in Manchester. He was brought on as a substitute for Gordon Ramsay, and scored a penalty in the final shootout, following a 2–2 draw. His first movie had been a comedy with Hawn Wildcats, Hawn the Wildcats, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. He appeared in several episodes of Will & Grace as Grace’s new boyfriend Nathan in 2001. In 2014, he starred with Matthew McConaughey in True Detective, where he played a Louisiana cop investigating murders that took place over a timespan of 17 years. He also starred in the movie The Messenger, which was released in theaters on November 14, 2014. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from a total of five nominations in 1989. In 2012, he played in the football match between England and the Rest of the World for the first time since the tournament began. He claimed that he didn’t even remember the moment of scoring, even though he had been playing for the England team for the previous two minutes.
He attended Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana, and received a BFA in Theatre and English in 1983. He crossed paths with future Vice President Mike Pence, later commenting in 2018: ‘I thought he was a pretty good guy. He’s, you know, very religious. Very committed. Seeing as how I’m not quite in that ballpark now, I don’t know how we’d get along, ’cause I think he’s still quite religious and just a whole different brand of religious… That kind of fervor that you really don’t want.’ He also appeared in the comedy film Hawn The Wildcats, which aired on May 27, 1986, and was a box-office success. In 2009, he was interviewed by Stephen Colbert on the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, to promote his film The Messenger. In response to Colbert’s questioning of his support for the troops, he agreed to let Colbert shave his head on camera. In 2011, he appeared in a comedy film, The Cops, about the death of a police officer in Louisiana, Louisiana, and New Jersey. In 2013, he co-starred in the TV movie, The Godfather: Part II, starring alongside Robert De Niro and Amy Adams. In 2015, he had a role in the television film The Big Lebowski, in which he played the role of a man who is obsessed with his ex-wife. He starred in an episode of Frasier, which he reprised as Woody Boyd in 1999.
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