WOODY HARRELSON (Ernie Luckman) 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.” Other films include “Play it to the Bone,” “The Thin Red Line,” “The Hi-Lo Country,” “Ed TV,” “Wag the Dog,” “Welcome to Sarajevo,” “Kingpin,” “Natural Born Killers,” “Indecent Proposal” and “White Men Can’t Jump.” Harrelson starred opposite Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek in Brett Ratner’s “After the Sunset,” the Jane Anderson directed “The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio” with Julianne Moore, director Mark Mylod’s “The Big White” with Robin Williams and Holly Hunter, and “North Country” starring Charlize Theron, Sissy Spacek, and Frances McDormand for director Niki Caro. He is currently filming “The Walker,” with Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall and Willem Dafoe for director Paul Schrader, and can be seen the upcoming Robert Altman ensemble feature, “A Prairie Home Companion.”
Harrelson’s environmental activism marries 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.
In addition to his film work, 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, Harrelson won an Emmy in 1988 and was nominated four additional times during his eight-year run on the show.
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 followed next with the Roundabout's Broadway revival of the N. Richard Nash play “The Rainmaker” 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. In the winter of 2005/2006 Harrelson returned to London’s West End, starring in Tennessee Williams’ “Night of the Iguana” at the Lyric Theatre.
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