Tracy Letts
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Tracy S. Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter.
He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2013).He is also known for his portrayal of Andrew Lockhart in seasons 3 and 4 of Showtime's Homeland, for which he has been nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards as a member of the ensemble.
He portrayed the pyramid-scheme con-artist Nick on the HBO comedy Divorce.
In 2017, Letts starred in three critically acclaimed films: The Lovers, Lady Bird, and The Post.
The latter two films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; Lady Bird garnered Letts a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination.
In 2019 he had a prominent role as Henry Ford II in James Mangold's Ford v Ferrari. Letts wrote the screenplays of three films adapted from his own plays: 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.
His first screenplay not to be adapted from his own work, The Woman in the Window, based on the eponymous novel by A. J. Finn, is scheduled to be released in 2020.
Early life
Letts was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to author Billie Letts (née Gipson) and college professor and actor Dennis Letts. He has two brothers, Shawn, a musician, and Dana. Letts was raised in Durant, Oklahoma and graduated from Durant High School in the early 1980s. He moved to Dallas, where he waited tables and worked in telemarketing while beginning his acting career. He appeared in Jerry Flemmons' O Dammit!, which was part of a new playwrights' series sponsored by Southern Methodist University.
Letts moved to Chicago at the age of 20, working for the next 11 years at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Famous Door. He is still an active member of Steppenwolf. He was a founding member of Bang Bang Spontaneous Theatre, whose members included Greg Kotis, Michael Shannon, Paul Dillon, and Amy Pietz. In 1991, Letts wrote the play Killer Joe. Two years later, the play premiered at the Next Lab Theater in Evanston, Illinois, followed by the 29th Street Rep in New York City. Since then, Killer Joe has been performed in a number of countries in 12 languages.
His mother, Billie Letts, has said of his work, "I try to be upbeat and funny. Everybody in Tracy's stories gets naked or dead." Letts's plays have depicted people struggling with moral and spiritual questions. He says he was inspired by the plays of Tennessee Williams and the novels of William Faulkner and Jim Thompson. Letts states that he considers sounds to be effective "storytelling tools" for theater.
Personal life
Letts was once engaged to actress Sarah Paulson. He married actress Carrie Coon in September 2013. They have two children, born in 2018 and 2021. He has been sober since 1993.
Career
Letts appeared in several of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's productions from the 1980s to the late 2000s, including in Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1994).
Letts gained notice in 2012 when he appeared in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf's revival. At the Booth Theatre. He has received rave reviews and was voted Best Actor in a Play by Tony Award.
Letts appeared in Arthur Miller's All My Sons revival with Annette Bening at the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre in 2019. The show officially opened on April 22, 2019 and closed on June 23, 2019.
Over ten plays have been written by Letts. On June 28, 2007, his most popular, August: Osage County, premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. On December 4, 2007, it made its Broadway debut at the Imperial Theatre in Washington, New York; the production was moved to Broadway's Music Box Theatre on April 29, 2008. After 648 performances and 18 previews, the Broadway show came to a conclusion on June 28, 2009. The show went on to receive seven Tony Award nominations, six of which included Best Play. In 2008, the play received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Letts has been a finalist for the Pulitzer drama award for his plays Man from Nebraska and The Minutes; the Pulitzer committee characterized The Minutes as a "shocking drama set in a seemingly ordinary city council meeting that lucidly articulates a unique American toxicity that feels both ancient and modern."
Letts appeared in television shows from the 1990s to the mid 2000s, including Prison Break, Strong Medicine, Profiler, Judging Amy, The Drew Carey Show, Seinfeld, Early Version, and Home Improvement.
Letts played on Showtime's Homeland as US Senator Andrew Lockhart from 2013 to 2014. He was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble with the rest of the cast.
Letts appeared in HBO's marital comedy-drama Divorce in 2016.
Letts appeared in the second season of USA Network's anthology crime drama series The Sinner, opposite Bill Pullman and Carrie Coon. In HBO's 2022 film Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Jack McKinney played Jack McKinney.
Letts has appeared in Adam McKay's 2015 ensemble piece The Big Short, 2016's Wiener-Dog, Christine, and Nixon; and James Schamus' film adaptation of the Philip Roth book Indignation, as well as the true-story crime thriller adaptation Imperium.
Letts appeared in the films The Lovers, The Post, and Lady Bird in 2017.
Letts appeared Henry Ford II in James Mangold's sports drama film Ford vs Ferrari in James Mangold's sports drama film Ford vs Ferrari, and in Little Women, a film version of Louisa May Alcott's book of the same name, Letts played Mr. Dashwood.
Letts has written screenplays for three feature films based on his characters: Bug (directed by William Friedkin), Killer Joe (also directed by Friedkin), and August: Osage County (directed by John Wells). He was also responsible for the screenplay for the 2021 Netflix feature film The Woman in the Window, starring Amy Adams, which is based on A.J.'s eponymous psychological thriller. Finn.