Tracy Letts

He continued acting on the Broadway stage in 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. He played Jack McKinney in the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–2023); for this role, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2024. On film, he has portrayed Henry Ford II in James Mangold's sports drama Ford v Ferrari (2019) and Mr. Dashwood in Little Women, a 2019 film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. Letts adapted three of his plays into films: Bug (2006) and Killer Joe (2011), both directed by William Friedkin; and August: Osage County (2013), directed by John Wells.

The recorded working language is English. Works named in the authority record are I Play Rocky. Distinctions recorded are Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Name — Tracy Letts • Birth Name — Tracy Shane Letts • Born — July 4, 1965 • Birthplace — Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. • Occupation — * Playwright • screenwriter • actor • Years Active — 1988–present • Children — 2 • Parents — Billie Letts Dennis Letts • Awards — Pulitzer Prize for Drama Tony Award for Best Play Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play

Letts was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to author Billie Letts (Gipson), a college professor, and actor Dennis Letts. He has two brothers, Shawn, a musician, and Dana. He grew up 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's 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. Letts has written a number of plays. His most famous, August: Osage County, premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago on June 28, 2007. It had its Broadway debut at the Imperial Theatre on December 4, 2007; the production transferred to Broadway's Music Box Theatre on April 29, 2008. The Broadway show closed on June 28, 2009, after 648 performances and 18 previews. In 2008, the show was nominated for seven Tony Awards; it won six Tony Awards, including Best Play. The play won Letts the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2008. Letts has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer drama prize for his plays Man from Nebraska and The Minutes; the Pulitzer committee described The Minutes as a "shocking drama set in a seemingly mundane city council meeting that acidly articulates a uniquely American toxicity that feels both historic and contemporary." 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. He has said that he considers sounds to be effective "storytelling tools" for theater. During the late 1980s through the late 2000s, Letts acted in many of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's productions, starring in Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1994). In 2012, he gained attention for his Broadway debut performance in the revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Booth Theatre. He received positive reviews and won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 2013. In 2019, he appeared in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons with Annette Bening at Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre. The show officially opened on April 22, 2019, and closed on June 23, 2019. Letts starred in the 2022 Broadway production of The Minutes; this was his first time acting in one of his own plays.

Early in his acting career, in the 1990s through the mid-2000s, Letts acted in TV shows including Prison Break, The District, Strong Medicine, Profiler, Judging Amy, The Drew Carey Show, Seinfeld, Early Edition, and Home Improvement. In 2013–14, he joined the cast of Showtime's Homeland as US Senator Andrew Lockhart. He was nominated with the rest of the cast for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble. In 2016, Letts joined HBO's marital comedy–drama Divorce. In 2018, Letts was cast in the second season of USA Network's anthology crime drama series The Sinner, opposite Bill Pullman and Carrie Coon. He played Jack McKinney in HBO's 2022-2023 series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. In 2024, he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his work on that series.

• Illustration — Carrie Coon with Letts at the New York Film Festival in 2025. Letts married actress Carrie Coon in September 2013. They have two children, born in 2018 and 2021. Letts was previously engaged to actress Sarah Paulson, and was in a relationship with actress Holly Wantuch until her unexpected death in 1998. He has been sober since 1993.

• Year — Title — Notes — Ref. • 1993 — Killer Joe • 1996 — Bug • 2003 — Man from Nebraska • 2007 — August: Osage County • 2008 — Superior Donuts • 2009 — Three Sisters — Adaptation • 2015 — The Stretch • 2016 — Mary Page Marlowe • 2017 — Linda Vista • 2017 — The Minutes • 2021 — Night Safari • 2021 — The Old Country

• Year — Title — Role — Theatre • 1988 — The Glass Menagerie — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 1991–1995 — Bang Bang Spontaneous Theatre — Various characters — Chicago, No Exit Cafe • 1994 — Picasso at the Lapin Agile — Freddy — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 1999 — Three Days of Rain — Walker — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 2001 — Glengarry Glen Ross — John Williamson — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 2002 — The Dazzle — Langley Collyer — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 2002 — Miracle on 34th Street — Lawyer — Chicago Center for Performing Arts • 2003 — Homebody/Kabul — Quango Twistleton — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 2004 — The Dresser — Norman — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 2005 — Last of the Boys — Ben — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 2005 — Orson's Shadow — Kenneth Tynan — Off-Broadway, Barrow Street Theatre • 2005 — The Pain and the Itch — Cash — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 2006 — The Pillowman — Tupolski — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 2006 — The Well-Appointed Room — Stewart — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 2007 — Betrayal — Robert — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 2009 — American Buffalo — Walter "Teach" Cole — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 2010 — Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — George — Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre • 2012 — Broadway, Booth Theatre • 2014 — The Realistic Joneses — Bob Jones — Broadway, Lyceum Theatre • 2019 — All My Sons — Joe Keller — Broadway, American Airlines Theatre • 2020 — The Minutes — Mayor Superba — Broadway, Cort Theatre • 2022 — Broadway, Studio 54

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1995 — Home Improvement — Henry — Episode: "Jill's Surprise Party" • 1996–1997 — Early Edition — Jonathan / Marksman — 2 episodes • 1997 — Seinfeld — Counterguy — Episode: "The Strike" • 1998 — The Drew Carey Show — Lomax — Episode: "Drew and the Conspiracy" • 1999 — Judging Amy — Mr. Kleinman — Episode: "Pilot" • 2000 — Profiler — Mr. Adams — Episode: "Train Man" • 2001 — Strong Medicine — Ken — Episode: "Wednesday Night Fever" • 2001 — The District — Brad Gilroy — Episode: "Melt Down" • 2006 — Prison Break — Peter Tucci — 2 episodes • 2013–2014 — Homeland — Senator/Director Andrew Lockhart — 17 episodes • 2016–2019 — Divorce — Nick — 17 episodes • 2017 — Comrade Detective — Vasile (voice) — Episode: "No Exit" • 2018 — The Sinner — Jack Novack — 7 episodes • 2022–2023 — Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty — Jack McKinney — 9 episodes • 2024 — Mr. Throwback — Mitch Grossman — 5 episodes • 2024 — The Simpsons — Himself (voice) — Episode: "Desperately Seeking Lisa" • 2025 — The Paper — John Stack — 2 episodes • 2025 — The Lowdown — Frank Martin — 6 episodes • 2025 — The American Revolution — Elbridge Gerry (voice) — Episode: "The Soul of All America (December 1777 - May 1780)" • 2026 — East of Eden — Cyrus Trask — Upcoming series

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Letts starred in Adam McKay's 2015 ensemble piece The Big Short, 2016's Wiener-Dog, Christine, and Elvis & Nixon, and James Schamus's film adaptation of the Philip Roth novel Indignation, as well as the true-story crime thriller adaptation Imperium. Letts appeared in the 2017 films The Lovers, The Post, and Lady Bird. In 2019, Letts portrayed Henry Ford II in James Mangold's sports drama film Ford v Ferrari, and played Mr. Dashwood in Little Women, a film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. Letts has written screenplays for three feature films based on his plays: Bug (directed by William Friedkin), Killer Joe (also directed by Friedkin); and August: Osage County (directed by John Wells). He also wrote the screenplay for the 2021 Netflix feature film The Woman in the Window, starring Amy Adams, based on the eponymous psychological thriller by A. J. Finn.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1988 — Paramedics — Van Owner • 1992 — Straight Talk — Sean • 1998 — Chicago Cab — Sports Fan • U.S. Marshals — Sheriff Poe • 1999 — Guinevere — Zack • 2007 — Cop Show — Michael Cooke — Short film • 2015 — The Big Short — Lawrence Fields • 2016 — Wiener-Dog — Danny • Christine — Michael Nelson • Elvis & Nixon — John Finlator • Indignation — Hawes D. Caudwell • Imperium — Dallas Wolf • 2017 — The Lovers — Michael • Lady Bird — Larry McPherson • The Post — Fritz Beebe • 2019 — Ford v Ferrari — Henry Ford II • Little Women — Mr. Dashwood • 2020 — French Exit — Franklin "Small Frank" Price (voice) • 2021 — The Woman in the Window — Dr. Landy — Uncredited • Ghostbusters: Afterlife — Jack — Uncredited • 2022 — Deep Water — Don Wilson • 2023 — Eric Larue — Bill Verne • 2024 — McVeigh — Richard Snell • Saturday Night — Herb Sargent • 2025 — A House of Dynamite — General Anthony Brady • 2026 — Rosebush Pruning — The Father • The Liberation — Reuben Cooper • I Play Rocky — Sandy Maddox • TBA — Liminal — TBA — Filming