Tracy Letts () inggih punika salah satunggalipun panganggit skénario lan juru paraga saking Amérikah Sarékat ingkang nampi pangaji Pulitzer ing Kategori Sandhiwara awit saking kaprigelanipun maragani ing August: Osage County lan Tony Award lumantar paraganipun minangka George ing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Piyambakipun nganggit skénario tigang filem ingkang dipunangkat saking lakon sandhiwara anggitanipun piyambak, inggih punika Bug lan Killer Joe, dipunsutradarani William Friedkin, lan August: Osage County, dipunsutradarani John Wells. Namanipun ugi misuwur saking paraganipun minangka Andrew Lockhart wonten ing adicara televisi Showtime, Homeland, ingkang lajeng pikantuk nominasi kalih kategori ing Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Letts lair ing Tulsa, Oklahoma, putranipun panyerat misuwur, Billie Letts (née Gipson) lan profesor ugi juru paraga, Dennis Letts. Piyambakipun gadhah kalih rakamas, Shawn, juru musik jazz lan panata musik, lan Dana. Letts ageng wonten ing Durant, Oklahoma lan nglampahi pawiyatan ing Durant High School dasawarsa 1980-an. Salajengipun piyambakipun ngalih wonten Dallas, nyambut damel minangka bakul saking katebihan sinambi miwiti kiprahipun minangka juru paraga kanthi maragani lakon anggitanipun Jerry Flemmons, O Dammit!, ingkang dipunsengkuyung déning Southern Methodist University.

Ing yuswa 20 taun, Letts ngalih wonten Chicago, nyambut damel sewelas taun ing Steppenwolf Theatre Company lan Famous Door. Dumugi sapunika piyambakipun taksih lelabetan minangka péranganing Steppenwolf. Piyambakipun yasa Bang Bang Spontaneous Theatre, ingkang anggotanipun antawisipun Greg Kotis (panampi bebungah Tony Award lumantar Urinetown), Michael Shannon (mblebet nominasi ing Academy Award lumantar Revolutionary Road), Paul Dillon, lan Amy Pietz. Taun 1991, Letts nyerat lakon Killer Joe. Kalih taun salajengipun, maragani ing The Next Lab Theater Chicago, lajengThe 29th Street Rep in NYC. Lakon Killer Joe punika dipunpéntasaken ing langkung saking 15 nagari lan kalih basa. Letts sesémahan kaliyan juru paraga wanita Carrie Coon (ingkang naté dados juru paraga ing filem Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,) wulan Sèptèmber 2013.

Letts sampun nyerat skénario kanggé filem Bug ingkang dipunsutradarani William Friedkin, dipunangkat saking lakon anggitanipun piyambak, Killer Joe dipunsutradarani Friedkin, dipunangkat saking lakon anggitanipun piyambak, lan August: Osage County bilih sutradharanipun John Wells, ugi dipunangkat saking lakon anggitanipun ingkang kasil menang wonten adicara Pulitzer-Prize lan Tony Award kanthi sesirah ingkang sami.

Lumantar Killer Joe, Letts mlebet nominasi Saturn Award wonten pahargyan The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA, minangka Panganggit Paling Saé. Taun 2007, piyambakipun ugi ngayahi minangka juru damel palaksana ngrangkep maragani filem cekak Cop Show, ingkang dipunsutradarani Leo Benvenuti lan Steve Rudnick. Kajawi punika, ugi maragani ing filem Danny Pudi.

Letts naté maragani senator Amérikah Sarékat Andrew Lockhart ing adicara televisi Showtime mangsa kaping tiga, damelanipn Homeland. Lumantar kaparagan punika, piyambakipun mlebet nominasi ing Screen Actors Guild taun 2013. Piyambakipun maragani malih ing mangsa kaping sekawan, sesarengan kaliyan Lockhart minangka Direktur CIA.

Letts ugi maragani ing Prison Break (minangka Peter Tucci), The District (minangka Brad Gilroy), Strong Medicine (minangka Ken), Profiler (minangka Mr. Adams), Judging Amy (minangka Mr. Kleinman), The Drew Carey Show (minangka Lomax), Seinfeld, Early Edition (minangka Jonathan/Marksman), lan Home Improvement (minangka Henry).

Ing filem biyoskup, Letts maragani pakaryanipun Audrey Wells sesirah Guinevere (minangka Zack), pakaryanipun  Stuart Baird sesirah U.S. Marshals (minangka Sheriff Poe), Chicago Cab (minangka pandhemen olahraga), Straight Talk (minangka Sean), Paramedics (minangka ingkang gadhah van), lan The Big Short (minangka Lawrence Fields). Kajawi punika, Letts ugi dados paraga panyengkuyung minangka Dean Caudwell ing Indignation (2016), satunggalipun filem ingkang dipunangkat saking novèl anggitanipun Philip Roth kanthi sesirah ingkang sami, dipunbabar taun 2008.

Pakaryan panggung

Minangka panganggit lakon sandhiwara 
 1993 Killer Joe
 1996 Bug
 2003 Man from Nebraska
 2007 August: Osage County
 2008 Superior Donuts
 2009 Three Sisters 
 2015 The Stretch
 2016 Mary Page Marlowe

Minangka juru paraga 
 1988 The Glass Menagerie
 1991–1995 Bang Bang Spontaneous Theatre
 1994 Picasso At The Lapin Agile
 1999 Three Days of Rain
 2001 Glengarry Glen Ross
 2002 The Dazzle
 2002 Miracle on 34th Street
 2003 Homebody/Kabul
 2004 The Dresser
 2005 Last of the Boys
 2005 Orson's Shadow
 2005 The Pain and the Itch
 2006 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
 2006 The Pillowman
 2006 The Well-Appointed Room
 2007 Betrayal
 2009 American Buffalo
 2012 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
 2014 The Realistic Joneses

Pakaryan filem

Filem

Televisi

Pangaji lan nominasi 
Pangaji
 2008 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play – August: Osage County
 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – August: Osage County
 2008 Tony Award for Best Play – August: Osage County
 2013 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nominasi
 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – Man from Nebraska
 2013 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series – Homeland
 2014 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series – Homeland

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1965 births
Orang hidup
American male screenwriters
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Drama Desk Award winners
People from Durant, Oklahoma
Male actors from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners
Tony Award winners
20th-century American male actors
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Writers from Tulsa, Oklahoma
21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
American male dramatists and playwrights
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