Tracy Letts

Tracy Letts

Born: July 4, 1965
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Tracy Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. 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? 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 currently portrays Nick on the HBO comedy Divorce.

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 which is currently in its second season on CBS.

Movies for Tracy Letts...

Eric LaRue
Title: Eric LaRue
Released: June 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her faith despite her pastor’s pleas to heal her wounds by meeting with the mothers of her son’s victims.
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Deep Water
Title: Deep Water
Character: Don Wilson
Released: March 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family.
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Title: Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Character: Jack McKinney
Released: March 6, 2022
Type: TV
A fast-break series chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined an era, both on and off the court.
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Title: Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Character: Jack (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 2021
Type: Movie
When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
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Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts
Title: Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts
Character: Announcer
Released: September 29, 2021
Type: Movie
These plays, all written by Tony and Pulitzer-winning playwright and Steppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts, share at least one thread: a world off-kilter. These gripping pieces create the opening landscape of this season and will mark a bridge between where we have been and where we are going.
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The Woman in the Window
Title: The Woman in the Window
Character: Dr. Landy (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 2021
Type: Movie
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
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French Exit
Title: French Exit
Character: Franklin Price (voice)
Released: February 12, 2021
Type: Movie
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.
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Little Women
Title: Little Women
Character: Mr. Dashwood
Released: December 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Ford v Ferrari
Title: Ford v Ferrari
Character: Henry Ford II
Released: November 13, 2019
Type: Movie
American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
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The Post
Title: The Post
Character: Fritz Beebe
Released: December 22, 2017
Type: Movie
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
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Lady Bird
Title: Lady Bird
Character: Larry McPherson
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
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The Lovers
Title: The Lovers
Character: Michael
Released: May 5, 2017
Type: Movie
The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.
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Christine
Title: Christine
Character: Michael
Released: October 14, 2016
Type: Movie
In the 1970s, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.
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Title: Divorce
Character: Nick
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: TV
A middle-aged couple experience the pain, the relief and the trials and tribulations of a divorce in this dry, witty comedy.
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Imperium
Title: Imperium
Character: Dallas Wolf
Released: August 19, 2016
Type: Movie
Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white supremacy. Inspired by real events.
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Indignation
Title: Indignation
Character: Dean Caudwell
Released: July 29, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.
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Wiener-Dog
Title: Wiener-Dog
Character: Danny
Released: June 24, 2016
Type: Movie
A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.
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Elvis & Nixon
Title: Elvis & Nixon
Character: John Finlator
Released: March 22, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the President himself.
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The Big Short
Title: The Big Short
Character: Lawrence Fields
Released: December 11, 2015
Type: Movie
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
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Title: Off Camera with Sam Jones
Character: Self
Released: February 6, 2014
Type: TV
Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and movies, and other celebrities (great skateboarders, for example), to discuss their development before fame, their passions beyond their careers, and gives them a space to open up about their insight into their business and their own abilities. Filmed in black and white, with a few deep cushion chairs and sparse set, the show relies on Sam's ability to relate to the guests and their will to speak freely with him.
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Title: Homeland
Character: Andrew Lockhart
Released: October 2, 2011
Type: TV
CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.
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Guinevere
Title: Guinevere
Character: Zack
Released: September 12, 1999
Type: Movie
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
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Chicago Cab
Title: Chicago Cab
Character: Sports Fan
Released: September 18, 1998
Type: Movie
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad parts of the city and emotionally connects to many of his passengers.
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U.S. Marshals
Title: U.S. Marshals
Character: Sheriff Poe
Released: March 6, 1998
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
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Title: The Drew Carey Show
Character: Lomax
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: TV
Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. To make a few extra bucks he has a micro-brewery going in his garage with his buddies.
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Straight Talk
Title: Straight Talk
Character: Sean (voice)
Released: April 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her the more he fancies her.
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Title: Home Improvement
Character: Henry
Released: September 17, 1991
Type: TV
The daily trials and tribulations of handyman Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and unseen neighbor.
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Title: Seinfeld
Character: Counter Guy
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: TV
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
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Paramedics
Title: Paramedics
Character: Van Owner
Released: June 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Two paramedics are transferred to the nasty part of the city where a gang is killing people to sell their organs.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Winner
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
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McVeigh
Title: McVeigh
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After the Waco siege, an unthinkable plan brews in the mind of army veteran Timothy McVeigh.