Tracy S. Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He 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? (2013).
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. He portrayed the
pyramid-scheme con-artist Nick on the HBO comedy
Divorce. In 2017, Letts starred in three critically acclaimed films:
The Lovers,
Lady Bird, and
The Post.
The latter two films were nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Picture, while
Lady Bird earned Letts a nomination for the
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination. In 2019, he portrayed
Henry Ford II in
James Mangold's
Ford v Ferrari.
Letts 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. His 2009 play
Superior Donuts was adapted into a
television series of the same name. His first screenplay not to be adapted from his own work,
The Woman in the Window, based on the
2018 novel of the same name by A. J. Finn, is scheduled to be released in 2020.
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