Woody Harrelson is maybe best known for his Emmy-award-winning role on NBC's Cheers. However, he has received critical acclaim and audience praise for his stellar acting on HBO's True Detective.
With his feats and a career spanning almost 40 years, take a look at Harrelson's life, works, and net worth.
Woody Harrelson's Career
The 61-year-old won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series as the bartender Woody Boyd on Cheers, which aired from 1985 to 1993. He also got five nominations for the series.
He reprised his famous role in its spinoff Frasier and got another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor.
From there, he continuously received Academy nominations for Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt and Best Supporting Actor for The Messenger and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
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Other notable films he did are White Men Can't Jump, Natural Born Killers, Kingpin, The Thin Red Line, No Country for Old Men, Zombieland, and Rampart. He was also part of Seven Psychopaths, Now You See Me, The Edge of Seventeen, LBJ, Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Man from Toronto, and Triangle of Sadness.
Harrelson gained further prominence for his role as Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series.
He also has more Emmy nominations for his works in Game Changer and True Detective. He's set to star in White House Plumbers.
No wonder Harrelson is now worth $70 million with these to his name.
Woody Harrelson May Be Matthew McConaughey's Brother
Matthew McConaughey made everyone's jaw drop when he revealed he and Harrelson might be half-brothers.
McConaughey's parents are Mary McCabe and James McConaughey, while Harrelson's are Diane Oswald and Charles Harrelson. However, the former started to question whether Charles might be his father, too.
"In Greece a few years ago, we're sitting around talking about how close we are and our families," McConaughey said on the Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa podcast via E! News. "And my mom is there, and she says, 'Woody, I knew your dad.' Everyone was aware of the ellipses that my mom left after 'knew.' It was a loaded K-N-E-W."
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From there, a family investigation began.
"We went on to unpack what this 'knew' meant and did some math and found out that [Woody's] dad was on furlough at the same time that my mom and dad were in their second divorce," he explained. "Then there's possible receipts and places out in West Texas where there might have been a gathering, or a meeting, or a 'knew' moment."
But despite that, McConaughey opted not to take a DNA test.
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"Look, it's a little easier for Woody to say, 'Come on, let's do [DNA tests],' because what's the skin in it for him?" he continued. "It's a little harder for me because he's asking me to take a chance to go, 'Wait a minute, you're trying to tell me my dad may not be my dad after 53 years of believing that?' I got a little more skin in the game."
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