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Woody Harrelson - Biography
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Woody Harrelson Biography
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| Name : | Woody Harrelson |
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Date of birth :
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23 July 1961
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Place of birth :
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Midland, Texas, USA
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Birth name :
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Woodrow Tracy Harrelson
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Height :
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5' 11
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Woody Harrelson Trivia
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- Is a Vegan
- Moonlights as the lead singer in the band Manly Moondog and the Three Kool Hats.
- Graduated from Hanover College in 1983. Member Sigma Chi fraternity.
- "Woody" from "Cheers" (1982) is from Hanover.
- Was married to Neil Simon's daughter, Nancy Simon. Has had relationships with: Carol Kane, Ally Sheedy and Moon Unit Zappa.
- Was arrested in Columbus (Ohio) in June 1983, charged of disorderly conduct - he was dancing in the street, halting traffic; he later jumped out of a moving police van laughing maniacally and finally punched one of the two arresting officers to the ground.
- Brother of Brett Harrelson
- Father, Charles Voyde Harrelson, has been convicted twice for committing paid murders. Once in 1968 and again in 1978 (for the murder of Federal Judge John Wood).
- His father, Charles, in addition to being a convicted felon, is believed to be one of "the hobos" taken away from the area known as "the grassy knoll" right after the shooting of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
- Children are named Deni Montana (b.1994) and Zoe Giordano (b.1997).
- Admits to having been a sex addict.
- Claimed to have 17 jobs in one year.
- Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world [1990]
- Activist for the legalization of marijuana.
- A jury in Beattyville, Kentucky dismissed a marijuana possession charge against him. He was arrested in 1996 for planting 4 marijuana hemp seeds in rural Kentucky and in his defence he said he was challenging a state law that makes no distinction between marijuana and hemp, even though hemp contains little of the drug found in marijuana and can be used to make a variety of industrial products. [25 August 2000]
- Woody and approximately a dozen other hemp activists and environmentalists took a bicycle tour across America, Starting in Seattle, Washington and 1000 miles later ending at the University of Santa Barbara in California. The tour was escorted by the "Mothership", a Chicago city transit bus fueled by hemp oil & powered by solar panels. [April 2001]
- The ex-son-in-law of playwright Neil Simon, one of Woody's first plays was Simon's "Biloxi Blues" in 1984.
- He is on the board of the directors for the Ex'pression Center For New Media, an art school in Emeryville, California.
- His friends Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber and Jim 'Soni' Sonefeld of the rock band Hootie & The Blowfish wrote the song "Woody" about him. The number can be found on the group's eponymous 2003-album.
- Is co-owner of an oxygen bar in San Francisco, California. [2001]
- Lives with Laura Louie and their children in Costa Rica [2004]
- Was set to star in the Danny Boyle's firefighter drama Worcester Cold Storage with Ed Harris, but the project never came to fruition.
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Woody Harrelson Detailed Biography
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Woody Harrelson is one of a select group of actors that has triumphantly made the transition from the small screen to motion pictures. The actor 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.
Harrelson won 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. He starred with a stellar cast in Terence Malick's Oscar nominated war drama The Thin Red Line, Stephen Frears acclaimed feature Hi-Lo Country, and Ron Howard's EdTV.
Harrelson made his big screen debut as a high school football player in Wildcats, which also featured another burgeoning talent, Wesley Snipes, with whom Harrelson would later reunite in Ron Shelton's basketball comedy, White Men Can't Jump, and the action thriller, Money Train. He starred opposite Robert Redford and Demi Moore in Adrian Lyne's drama, Indecent Proposal, and won acclaim as the homicidal Mickey for director Oliver Stone in the powerful drama, Natural Born Killers. He played one-handed bowler ‘Roy Munson' in the Farrelly Brothers' comedy, Kingpin, a newspaperman caught in a web of intrigue in Volker Schlondorff's film noir thriller, Palmetto and a journalist covering war-torn Bosnia in Welcome To Sarajevo. Other film credits include Wag The Dog, Sunchaser, Doc Hollywood, L.A.Story, The Cowboy Way and Ron Shelton's Play It To The Bone with Antonio Banderas.Harrelson recently wrapped filming on director Mark Mylod's, The Big White, with Robin Williams and Holly Hunter, and Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly, with Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr. and Winona Ryder. He is currently filming The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio with Julianne Moore for director Jane Anderson.
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.
Beginning in 1999, Harrelson revived his commitment to return 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” 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.
He remains most inspired by his role as ‘Daddy' in the improvisational group “The Harrelsons,” the long running sequel to “A Life of Lonely Hedonism.”
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