Tracy Letts

Tracy Letts
Letts at the premiere of August: Osage County, Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2013
Born	(1965-07-04) July 4, 1965 (age 51) Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Occupation	Playwright, screenwriter, actor
Years active	1988–present
Spouse(s)	Carrie Coon (m. 2013)
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2008 August: Osage County Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play 2013 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Tracy Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American playwright, screenwriter and actor who 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 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. 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.

Letts was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to best-selling author Billie Letts (née Gipson) and the late college professor and actor Dennis Letts. He has two brothers, Shawn, a jazz musician and composer, 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 starting as an actor. He acted in Jerry Flemmons' O Dammit!, which was part of a new playwrights series sponsored by Southern Methodist University.