Woody Harrelson | Cheers

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson, the son of Diane and Charles Voyde Harrelson, was born on July 23, 1961, in Midland, Texas. He grew up in a Presbyterian family with his two siblings, Jordan and Brett, who went on to be an actress. In 1973, Harrelson moved to Lebanon, Ohio, the hometown of his mother, where he graduated from Lebanon High School in 1979. Summer of the same year, he was employed at Kings Island amusement park. Harrelson then earned his degree in Theatre and English from Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana, where he joined the Sigma Chi fraternity.

He became well known for his role on the NBC sitcom Cheers. He replaced Coach, played by Nicholas Colasanto, and became bartender Woody Boyd in the series. For his recent works, he played Felix Kersten in The Man with the Miraculous Hands, a feature film adaptation of Joseph Kessel’s 1960 novel of the same name, which was released in March 2021.