Woody Harrelson Once Drank Cobra Blood and Whiskey Cocktails With Michael J. Fox, More Fun Facts

Straight shooter Woody Harrelson has racked up over 100 acting credits — and three Oscar nominations — since his stint as a bartending buffoon with a heart of gold on TV’s Cheers. This month, the colorful cutup is sharing the screen with Jamie Lee Curtis and Emma Mackey in the James L. Brooks comedy Ella McCay.

Here are 10 things you don’t know about the 64-year-old Texan.

1. While growing up in the Lone Star State, he went by his middle name, Tracy.

2. At Indiana’s Hanover College, he earned a bachelor’s degree in English, was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and became friends with now former Vice President Mike Pence.

3. In 1985, he and Nancy Simon — daughter of playwright Neil Simon — reportedly got hitched as a joke in Tijuana, Mexico, but after the storefront divorce parlor was closed the following day, they remained married for 10 months.

4. He scaled San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge to protest redwood logging in 1996.

5. According to Courtney Love, his costar in The People vs. Larry Flynt, the former ladies’ man once picked up a New York City Ballet prima ballerina “in less than a minute,” per Men’s Journal.

6. While visiting Back to the Future’s Michael J. Fox in Thailand in 1989, the buddies drank cobra blood and whiskey cocktails.

7. He’s been a vegan since 1990 and avoided sugar for more than two decades.

8. Woody made the ceremonial first move at the 2018 World Chess Championship.

9. He wrote a short poem on social media in honor of a baby girl, whose mother claimed the tot looked like him.

10. He shares three daughters with wife Laura Louie, and they’ve referred to the girls — Deni, 31, Zoe, 29, and Makani, 19 — as their “goddess trilogy.”