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Woody Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor. Born Woodrow Tracy Harrelson in Midland, Texas to Charles Voyde Harrelson and Diane Lou Oswald, he grew up in Lebanon, Ohio.
Harrelson attended Hanover College in Indiana, where he studied drama. After graduation, he moved to New York City and became an understudy in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues. In 1985 he was cast as the naive but genial Midwestern bartender Woodrow Boyd on the television series Cheers. His first film was Wildcats with Goldie Hawn in 1986.
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His early films were forgettable, until he portrayed Michael J. Fox's romantic rival in Doc Hollywood. From there on, films have been Harrelson's career.
Harrelson has appeared in such films as Money Train, White Men Can't Jump, The Cowboy Way, Indecent Proposal, The Hi-Lo Country, and Natural Born Killers and Kingpin. In 1996 he starred in the controversial The People vs. Larry Flynt, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He had a fairly long run on the NBC sitcom Will and Grace as Grace's love interest-come slob Nathan . He also played a transvestite prostitute in Anger Management, and he played FBI agent Stan in After The Sunset. His most recent film is North Country, which was released in 2005.
Harrelson is a strong and vocal supporter for the legalization of marijuana and hemp in the USA, and has been arrested several times for his activities. He is also an antiwar activist and has spoken out often publicly against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Harrelson, an ethical vegan and raw foodist, has also spoken out against animal experiments in the cosmetics industry.
Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson, a professional hitman, was twice convicted of murder for hire the second conviction resulting from the 1979 shooting of federal judge John H. Wood, Jr. His father for a time claimed to be one of the "hobos" taken off the "grassy knoll" in Dallas, Texas at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy, or even one of the shooters. Harrelson has frequently said that his father's past has colored his own present. |
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