Tracy Letts
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.
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All Credits (43)
The Liberation
as Reuben
I Play Rocky
as Sandy Maddox
East of Eden
as Cyrus Trask
Rosebush Pruning
as Father
The American Revolution
as (voice)
A House of Dynamite
as General Anthony Brady
The Lowdown
as Frank Martin
The Paper
as John Stack
Eric LaRue
as Bill Verne
Saturday Night
as Herb Sargent
McVeigh
as Richard
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
as Jack McKinney
Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts
as Announcer
The Woman in the Window
as Dr. Landy (uncredited)
French Exit
as Franklin Price (voice)
Little Women
as Mr. Dashwood
The Post
as Fritz Beebe
Lady Bird
as Larry McPherson
The Lovers
as Michael
Christine
as Michael
Divorce
as Nick
Imperium
as Dallas Wolf
Indignation
as Dean Caudwell
Wiener-Dog
as Danny
Elvis & Nixon
as John Finlator
The Big Short
as Lawrence Fields
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
Homeland
as Andrew Lockhart
Strong Medicine
as Ken
Guinevere
as Zack
Chicago Cab
as Sports Fan
U.S. Marshals
as Sheriff Poe
Early Edition
as Jonathan
Early Edition
as Marksman
Profiler
as Alan Chandler
The Drew Carey Show
as Lomax
Straight Talk
as Sean (voice)
Home Improvement
as Henry
The Simpsons
as Tracy Letts (voice)
Seinfeld
as Counter Guy
Paramedics
as Van Owner
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner