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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

5.7

Guinevere
1999-09-12

5.611

Chicago Cab
1998-09-18

6.5

Eric LaRue
2025-04-04

6.878

Christine
2016-10-14

5.976

Elvis & Nixon
2016-03-22

7.358

The Big Short
2015-12-11

5.071

McVeigh
2024-06-07

6.469

Imperium
2016-08-19

5.6

Wiener-Dog
2016-06-24

6.4

Indignation
2016-07-29

Rosebush Pruning

0

Rosebush Pruning

7.253

Lady Bird
2017-09-01

A House of Dynamite

6.395

A House of Dynamite
2025-10-02

5.409

The Lovers
2017-05-05

6.534

U.S. Marshals
1998-03-06

7

The Post
2017-12-22

2.2

Paramedics
1988-06-01

8.006

Ford v Ferrari
2019-11-13

5.623

French Exit
2021-02-12

5.817

Deep Water
2022-03-17

7.9

Little Women
2019-12-25

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

7.3

Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021-11-18

6

Straight Talk
1992-04-03

The Woman in the Window

5.986

The Woman in the Window
2021-05-13

6.7

Saturday Night
2024-09-27

0

I Play Rocky

7.582

Homeland
2011-10-02

5.9

Tony Awards
1956-04-01

8.253

Seinfeld
1989-07-05

6.453

Divorce
2016-10-09

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

7.605

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

The Drew Carey Show

6.503

The Drew Carey Show
1995-09-13

Strong Medicine

7.286

Strong Medicine
2000-07-23

Off Camera with Sam Jones

4

Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014-02-06

Home Improvement

7.406

Home Improvement
1991-09-17

8.011

The Simpsons
1989-12-17

0

East of Eden

7.3

Early Edition
1996-09-28

7.3

Early Edition
1996-09-28

7.075

The Paper
2025-09-04

6.655

The Lowdown
2025-09-23

7.021

Profiler
1996-09-21

The American Revolution

5.633

The American Revolution
2025-11-16

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

6.2

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015-09-08