Biography
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 Div...
Known For
Complete Filmography
A House of Dynamite
2025
When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
Eric LaRue
2025
as Bill Verne
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 n...
Saturday Night
2024
as Herb Sargent
At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the story of what happened behin...
McVeigh
2024
as Richard
A haunting psychological thriller based on one of America's most infamous figures. After the Waco siege, a chilling plan brews in the mind of army vet...
Deep Water
2022
as Don Wilson
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021
as Jack (uncredited)
When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Gho...
Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts
2021
as Announcer
These plays, all written by Tony and Pulitzer-winning playwright and Steppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts, share at least one thread: a world off-k...
Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts
2021
Writer
These plays, all written by Tony and Pulitzer-winning playwright and Steppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts, share at least one thread: a world off-k...
The Woman in the Window
2021
as Dr. Landy (uncredited)
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
The Woman in the Window
2021
Producer, Screenplay
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
French Exit
2021
as Franklin Price (voice)
“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 husb...
Little Women
2019
as Mr. Dashwood
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Ford v Ferrari
2019
as Henry Ford II
American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and th...
The Post
2017
as Fritz Beebe
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 ...
Lady Bird
2017
as Larry McPherson
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her up...
The Lovers
2017
as Michael
The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.
Christine
2016
as Michael
In 1974, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.
Imperium
2016
as Dallas Wolf
Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst m...
Indignation
2016
as Dean Caudwell
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual r...
Wiener-Dog
2016
as Danny
A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.
Elvis & Nixon
2016
as John Finlator
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 Dangero...
The Big Short
2015
as Lawrence Fields
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
August: Osage County
2013
Screenplay, Theatre Play
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to ...
Killer Joe
2012
Screenplay
A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal si...
Bug
2007
Theatre Play, Screenplay
In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she esta...
Guinevere
1999
as Zack
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
Chicago Cab
1998
as Sports Fan
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...
U.S. Marshals
1998
as Sheriff Poe
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....
Straight Talk
1992
as Sean (voice)
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in ...
Paramedics
1988
as Van Owner
Two paramedics are transferred to the nasty part of the city where a gang is killing people to sell their organs.
Rosebush Pruning
N/A
In the claustrophobic confines of a rural estate, a family struggles with their tangled web of hereditary diseases. Among them is Alessandro, a young ...