Date of Birth 23 July 1961, Midland, Texas, USA Birth Name Woodrow Tracy Harrelson Height 5' 10" (1.78 m) Woodrow Tracy Harrelson , better known as Woody Harrelson, is an American television and film actor. While Harrelson is best known for his role in the popular 1980s situation comedy Cheers, he has also acted in films such as as Natural Born Killers, The People vs. Larry Flynt (for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor) and A Scanner Darkly. He won an Emmy Award. In the 1990s, Harrelson became an activist for the legalization of marijuana and hemp in the US, and engaged in environmental activism to protect Pacific redwood trees. He is also an antiwar activist and has often spoken publicly against the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
