Harrelson attended Hanover College in Indiana, where he exposed drama. Fallowing college, he moved to New York City and became an understudy inside Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues. Within 1985 he was cast as a clean-handed Midwesterner Woodrow Boyd on the television series Cheers. His number 1 film was Wildcats with Goldie Hawn. His early films were forgettable, until he portrayed Michael J. Fox's enemy in love in Doc Hollywood. From either there in, films keep close at hand been Harrelson's career.

Harrelson hwhen appeared within such films as ''White Men Can't Jump, The Cowboy Way, Indecent Proposal, The Hi-Lo Country, and Natural Born Killers. Within 1996 he starred in The People vs. Larry Flynt'', for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He likewise played the transvestite prostitute in Anger Management.

Harrelson is an militant for the legalisation of marijuana and hemp, and has been arrested many days for his activities. He is too an antiwar militant & has spoken retired typically publicly against a 2003 invasion of Iraq. Harrelson, an honorable vegan and raw foodist, has also spoken retired against fleshly experiments in the cosmetics industry. He is Quintet'Eleven" (180 cm) tall.

Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson, was twice convicted of taking money to commit murders,^{[http://sports.texnews.com/1998/texas/harrel0803.html]} including that 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.