Born Woodrow Tracy Harrelson on July 23, 1961. He's an American actor, a peace activist, an environmentalist, a certified yoga instructor, a vegan and a raw foods enthusiast. His breakthrough role was playing bartender Woody Boyd on the television series Cheers.
Woody Harrelson has done many actions to help animals over the years. In the '90s he found out about Gillette's animal testing practices and asked PETA whether he could help with their campaign. He made a 12-minute video showing what Gillette did, which was aired on television. He also grew a beard to protest Gillette's animal testing.
In 2009 he joined PETA in a campaign to stop deadly medical training exercises involving cats at Texas Tech. In 2011 he joined PETA's campaign against the use of monkeys in chemical attack training exercises.Their campaign was a victory and the Army announced they were going to switch to human simulators.
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