- Born
- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Tracy Letts is the son of actor Dennis Letts and best-selling author Billie Letts, of "Where The Heart Is" and "The Honk And Holler Opening Soon" fame. Tracy is also the author of the stage play "Killer Joe", which ran off-Broadway in 1998 for nine months and starred Scott Glenn, Amanda Plummer, Michael Shannon, Sarah Paulson and Marc Nelson.- IMDb Mini Biography By: mashor@pacific.net.sg
- SpouseCarrie Coon(2013 - present) (1 child)
- ParentsBillie LettsDennis Letts
- As of 2020, he has appeared in five films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Big Short (2015), The Post (2017), Lady Bird (2017), Ford v Ferrari (2019), and Little Women (2019).
- Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play "August: Osage County".
- Nominated for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Man from Nebraska" and won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "August: Osage County".
- His play, "August: Osage County," at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2007 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work for a Play.
- Winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
- [on August: Osage County (2013)] I know that there's another dimension in the film that is not in the play, and that's Osage County. I would take them [filmmakers] to my home and show them the landscape, that's kind of profound for me as a guy who not only has written a play, but written a play that's somewhat autobiographical. The landscape itself becomes a character.
- [on August: Osage County (2013)] It was my decision to follow Barbara [daughter played by Julia Roberts] outside of the house at the end of the film, which is different from how the play ends...I want to correct that. The play ends with Violet alone in the house, and her daughters have left. That's how the movie ends, too. We made a decision that we're going to see more of what happens a little later. In my original screenplay, I think the way I had written Barbara in the car, it was a little darker, a little more obscure. [Director John Wells] made the choice not to film in that way. Staging is the director's prerogative in the film. It doesn't look exactly how I wrote it on the page, but I wrote it with Barbara leaving the house. There's a point where you throw your hands up and say: It's John's movie. You are not the ultimate authority in this construct.
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