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Tracy Letts
Actor
Born July 4, 1965 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States (61 years old)
Theatre
Tracy Shane Letts is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He started his career acting at the Steppenwolf Theatre. He debuted as a playwright on Broadway with August: Osage County (2007), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. As an actor, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2013).
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Signature Roles
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Career Trajectory
After moving to Chicago at twenty, Letts apprenticed himself to Steppenwolf Theatre Company, absorbing the ensemble's commitment to rigorous, emotionally unguarded performance. His early plays—*Killer Joe* (1991) and *Bug* (1996)—announced a distinctive voice: darkly comic, structurally audacious, and penetrating in their dissection of American pathology. With *August: Osage County*, he achieved the rare feat of creating a work that dominated both the Pulitzer committee and the Broadway box office, and his subsequent performances as George in *Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?* and as Joe Keller in *All My Sons* proved him a performer of comparable depth, establishing him as one of the most consequential figures in contemporary American theatre.
Career Highlight
Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play for *August: Osage County* (2008); Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for *Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?* (2013)—the first artist to win Tonys for both Best Play and Best Actor in a Play
At a Glance
- Voice
- Actor
- Nationality
- United States
- Born
- 1965 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
- Active since
- 2008
Training & Education
Southeastern Oklahoma State University (attended, did not graduate); Durant High School
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Career Arc
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1965Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
2008Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play for August: Osage County
2013Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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