Does Woody Harrelson have a twin brother?

No, Woody Harrelson doesn't have a twin brother.

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson, also known as Woody Harrelson, was born in Midland, Texas, to hitman Charles Voyde Harrelson and secretary Diane Oswald, who divorced in 1964. He grew up in a Presbyterian home with his two brothers, Jordan, an actor/businessman, and Brett, an actor; however, they are not identical twins.

Who are Woody Harrelson’s brothers?

Jordan Harrelson

According to reports, Jordan Harrelson was born on April 13, 1960, in Midland, Texas's Midland County, and is 63 years old as of August 2023.

Harrelson is the sibling of playwright and actor Woody Harrelson, as well as actor and producer Brett V. Harrelson. Charles Harrelson, his father, was given a life sentence for the murder of federal judge John H. Wood Jr. in 1979.

Diane Oswald, his mother, raised her children on her own. Jordan and his family relocated to Lebanon, Ohio, Jordan's mother's hometown, in 1973, where he and his brothers were raised. He might have gone to Lebanon High School with his brothers.

Harrelson is an actor and a successful businessman, and his resume includes a few roles. According to his IMDb page, he is well-known for his roles in “Son of a Hitman” (2020) and “EDtv” (1999). He provided voice work for the 10-episode “Son of a Hitman” podcast, which was created by High Five Content and launched on Spotify Studios on May 5, 2020.

Brett Harrelson

American actor Brett V. Harrelson was born on June 4, 1963 and he is the younger brother of actors Woody and Jordan Harrelson. Harrelson went to Lebanon High School but left at age 17 to enlist in the American Army, where he spent two years in Germany. After that, he went back to Lebanon and got a job as a legal assistant.

Harrelson moved to California with his brother Woody at the age of 22. "I came to L.A. to star-ify," he says.

However, after not finding any success comparable to Woody's, he briefly gave up acting to pursue a career as a motorcycle racer, where he eventually rose to the eighth spot in the 1992 national professional rankings. Brett claims that he joined Woody as his assistant and restarted his acting career "after seeing a few people killed."

TV commercials for "Harrelson's Own CBD" are among his endeavors. In 2020, Harrelson collaborated on the podcast series “Son of a Hitman.” Spotify Studios and High Five Content jointly distributed the show.

Are Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey brothers?

During an appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," Woody Harrelson confirmed Matthew McConaughey's claim that they might be brothers, saying, "There is some veracity to that thought."

“We want to go and do a DNA test, but for him, it’s a much more big deal,” Harrelson said. “I mean, he feels like he is losing a father. But I’m like, No, you’re gaining a different father and a brother.”

McConaughey and Harrelson both mentioned a conversation they had with "Ma Mac, Matthew's mother," who claimed to "know" Harrelson's father.

“It’s crazy. We were in Greece watching the US team win the World Cup, and I mentioned something about regrets,” Harrelson said. “And I said, ‘You know, it’s odd that my father has no regrets. And I have known Ma Mac a long time, and she goes, ‘I knew… your father.’ And it was the ellipses I found a little troubling or interesting.”

Harrelson continued that her silence was "filled with innuendo." Even so, Colbert joked, there might have been a "pregnant pause."

Recently, McConaughey claimed in the podcast "Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa" that Harrelson's father may have met his mother in West Texas if he had been on furlough while his own parents were going through their second divorce.

In a similar vein, Harrelson told Colbert: “The year of [Matthew’s] birth, nine months before, she was on a sabbatical from her relationship with his supposed father, Jim.”

The cast of "True Detective" will soon be seen in the comedy series "Brother From Another Mother" on Apple TV+. The show is loosely based on the actors' actual long-standing friendship, which started when they first met in 1997 while working on Ron Howard's "EDtv."