Key facts
- Born
- Tracy Shane Letts , ( 1965-07-04 ) July 4, 1965 (age 60) , Tulsa, Oklahoma , U.S.
- Occupations
- Playwright screenwriter actor
- Years active
- 1988–present
- Spouse
- Carrie Coon ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2013 )
- Parent s
- Billie Letts , Dennis Letts
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama , Tony Award for Best Play , Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tracy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Tulsa
- Spouse
- Carrie Coon
- Mother
- Billie Letts
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Tracy Letts A House of Dynamite-36 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1965-07-04
- Commons category
- Tracy Letts
- start of work period
- 1988-00-00
- name in native language
- Tracy Letts
- member of
- Writers Guild of America West
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Play
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Encyclopedic overview
Tracy Shane Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American actor, playwright, podcaster, and screenwriter.
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 in 2013. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tracy Letts” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.