How old is Woody Harrelson?

Woodrow "Woody" Harrelson is an American actor, comedian, and animal rights activist. He was born in 1961 in a small city in Texas but was raised in Ohio. He received a bachelor degree in theater acting and in the early 1980s he moved to New York to start his career as an actor. His first serious success was the role of a young bartender Woody Boyd in the TV series Cheers. He stayed in that project for 8 seasons and won 5 Emmy awards. In those years, Woody continued as a stage actor, and in the early 1990s he had his first cinema roles, with the movies like White Men Can't Jump (with Wesley Snipes), Incident Proposal (with Demi Moore), Natural Born Killers (with Robert Downey), The People vs Larry Flint (with Courtney Love), The Thin Red Line (with Sean Penn and George Clooney), and so on. One of the peaks of his career was in 2007, when Woody became a part of "No Country for Old Men", with Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and others. He starred in a few comedy movies opposite such actors as Will Smith and Will Ferrell. Among his latest works, it is possible to note his performances in True Detective TV series, as well as Hunger Games, War for the Planet of Apes, etc. Woody Harrelson is known for his environmental and animal right activism. He is married and with his second wife Laura he has 3 daughters.

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