Woody Harrelson is remembered on screen for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Woody Harrelson as American actor.
Woody Harrelson was born at Midland in 1961. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Hanover College and Lebanon High School.
By this period cinema was global and fragmented: independent finance, festival circuits and television drama competing for the same talent.
Woody Harrelson is credited as television actor, film actor and stage actor.
His name is attached above all to role as charmingly naive bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding. A film outlives its reviews, its budget and usually its studio; what remains is whether anyone still watches it.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (1989) and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (2008).
That the work was made from United States shaped it: national industries differ in what they finance, who they cast and which audiences they can reach.
Woody Harrelson is still working, and the shape of the career is not yet settled.
Achievements
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series — 1989
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture — 2008
- Worked as television actor, film actor and stage actor
