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Tracy Letts
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Tracy Letts
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1965-07-04,Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts

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Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts
2021-09-29

5.738

Guinevere
1999-09-12

5.8

Chicago Cab
1998-09-18

6.5

Eric LaRue
2025-04-04

6.858

Christine
2016-10-14

5.985

Elvis & Nixon
2016-03-22

7.368

The Big Short
2015-12-11

5.1

McVeigh
2024-06-07

6.456

Imperium
2016-08-19

5.631

Wiener-Dog
2016-06-24

6.4

Indignation
2016-07-29

Rosebush Pruning

6.8

Rosebush Pruning
2026-04-23

7.3

Lady Bird
2017-09-01

A House of Dynamite

6.407

A House of Dynamite
2025-10-02

5.371

The Lovers
2017-05-05

6.541

U.S. Marshals
1998-03-06

7.005

The Post
2017-12-22

3.143

Paramedics
1988-06-01

8.008

Ford v Ferrari
2019-11-13

5.628

French Exit
2021-02-12

5.841

Deep Water
2022-03-17

7.844

Little Women
2019-12-25

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

7.316

Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021-11-18

6

Straight Talk
1992-04-03

The Woman in the Window

5.975

The Woman in the Window
2021-05-13

6.659

Saturday Night
2024-09-27

0

I Play Rocky
2026-11-05

0

Harmonia
2027-01-08

0

Liminal

7.589

Homeland
2011-10-02

8.255

Seinfeld
1989-07-05

6.462

Divorce
2016-10-09

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

7.663

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022-03-06

The Drew Carey Show

6.505

The Drew Carey Show
1995-09-13

Strong Medicine

7.4

Strong Medicine
2000-07-23

Off Camera with Sam Jones

5

Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014-02-06

Home Improvement

7.378

Home Improvement
1991-09-17

8.02

The Simpsons
1989-12-17

0

East of Eden

7.325

Early Edition
1996-09-28

7.325

Early Edition
1996-09-28

7.186

The Paper
2025-09-04

6.689

The Lowdown
2025-09-23

7.021

Profiler
1996-09-21

The American Revolution

5.9

The American Revolution
2025-11-16

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

6.098

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015-09-08

0

Tony Awards
1956-04-01