Tracy Letts

Tracy Letts is a multifaceted award-winning actor and playwright.

Letts 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?

He has written 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.

Letts was seen in Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night; McVeigh opposite Alfie Allen and Ashley Benson; Michael Shannon’s directorial film debut, Eric LaRue; and the second season of HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty as Jack McKinney for which he earned an Emmy Award nomination.

Letts’ Tony-nominated play The Minutes made its return to Broadway in April 2022. Other recent stage projects include Linda Vista, which saw a successful limited run at Broadway’s Hayes Theatre in late 2019.

Letts starred in and also penned the screenplay for the film adaptation of A.J. Finn’s best-seller, The Woman in the Window which was released on Netflix in 2021. In 2019, Letts was seen portraying Henry Ford II in James Mangold’s Academy Award-nominated racing drama Ford v Ferrari, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. He also starred in the Academy nominated and critically acclaimed adaption of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. In 2017, Letts appeared in Steven Spielberg’s The Post alongside Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep. Also in 2017, Letts received critical acclaim for his performance opposite Saoirse Ronan in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird.

Letts will next be seen on television in Netflix’s forthcoming Limited Series Adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Also for Netflix, Letts will be starring in Kathryn Bigelow’s untitled thriller alongside Idris Elba, Rebeca Ferguson, Jared Harris, Greta Lee and Gabriel Basso.

He resides in New York with his wife, Carrie Coon and is an active member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.