Tracy Letts
Date of birth: 1965-07-04
Place of birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Tracy S. Letts
Biography
Tracy S. Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He started his career at the Steppenwolf Theatre before making his Broadway debut as a playwright for August: Osage County (2007), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. As an actor, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2013). As a playwright, Letts is known for having written for the Steppenwolf Theatre, Off-Broadway and Broadway theatre. His works include Killer Joe, Bug, Man from Nebraska, August: Osage County, Superior Donuts, Linda Vista, and The Minutes. Letts adapted three of his plays into films, Bug and Killer Joe, both directed by William Friedkin, and August: Osage County, directed by John Wells. His 2009 play Superior Donuts was adapted into a television series of the same name. As a stage actor, Letts has performed in various classic plays with the Steppenwolf Theatre since 1988. He made his acting Broadway debut as George in the revival of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which earned him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He continued acting on the Broadway stage in The Realistic Joneses, All My Sons, and The Minutes. On television, he is known for his portrayal of Andrew Lockhart in seasons 3 and 4 of Showtime's Homeland from 2013 to 2014, and pyramid-scheme con-artist Nick on the HBO comedy series Divorce from 2016 to 2019. He played Jack McKinney in the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–2023) for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. On film he has portrayed Henry Ford II in James Mangold's sports drama Ford v Ferrari (2019) and Herb Sargent in Jason Reitman's biographical comedy-drama Saturday Night (2024). He has also taken leading roles in The Lovers (2017) as well as supporting roles in The Big Short (2015), Indignation (2016), Imperium (2016), Lady Bird (2017), The Post (2017), Little Women (2019), and A House of Dynamite (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Tracy Letts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts
2021-09-29
These plays, all written by Tony and Pulitzer-winning playwright and Steppenwolf ensemble member Tra
Guinevere
1999-09-12
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
Chicago Cab
1998-09-18
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad par
Eric LaRue
2025-04-04
Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frus
Christine
2016-10-14
In 1974, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrati
Elvis & Nixon
2016-03-22
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be
The Big Short
2015-12-11
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
McVeigh
2024-06-07
A haunting psychological thriller based on one of America's most infamous figures. After the Waco si
Imperium
2016-08-19
Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy t
Wiener-Dog
2016-06-24
A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all
Indignation
2016-07-29
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio colleg
Rosebush Pruning
In the claustrophobic confines of a rural estate, a family struggles with their tangled web of hered
Lady Bird
2017-09-01
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacra
A House of Dynamite
2025-10-02
When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who
The Lovers
2017-05-05
The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.
U.S. Marshals
1998-03-06
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane
The Post
2017-12-22
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher a
Paramedics
1988-06-01
Two paramedics are transferred to the nasty part of the city where a gang is killing people to sell
Ford v Ferrari
2019-11-13
American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle c
French Exit
2021-02-12
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite France
Deep Water
2022-03-17
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime
Little Women
2019-12-25
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021-11-18
When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begi
Straight Talk
1992-04-03
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Acc
The Woman in the Window
2021-05-13
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a d
Saturday Night
2024-09-27
At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television
I Play Rocky
A struggling actor with a partially paralyzed face and a speech impediment writes a script that a bi