Tracy Letts
Tracy Letts ( born July 4, 1965 in Tulsa, Oklahoma ) is an American actor and playwright. He received for his play August: the Pulitzer Prize for Theatre, the Tony Award in 2008 and the Chicago Joseph Jefferson Award for a play, which is also listed in the German edition under the title A family in many theaters Osage County.
Life
Letts, Son of actor Dennis Letts and the best-selling author Billie Letts was initially also an actor and made his debut in 1988 in the film Paramedics - The anarchists of the ambulance, the performances in nearly twenty television series and films such as The Girl and the photographer ( 1999) followed.
In addition, he began his career as a playwright and wrote in 1995 the play Killer Joe, which was played in 1998 nine months Off-Broadway with the cast Scott Glenn, Amanda Plummer, Michael Shannon and Sarah Paulson.
Letts was 2002 member of the ensemble of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. After 2004 he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play Man from Nebraska, he received a nomination for the 2005 Joseph Jefferson Award for the lead role in the play The Dresser listed there. In 2006 he wrote the screenplay for the staged by William Friedkin horror film bug after his eponymous play. In 2012, he again worked with Friedkin together on the film adaptation of Killer Joe.
His greatest success as a playwright he had with the play August: Osage County, In 2008 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Theatre, the Tony Award for best play and the 2007 Joseph Jefferson Award was awarded for a play. In German-speaking productions of August: Osage County, under the title A family 's event included the purpose awarded the Gertrud Eysoldt ring Kirsten Dene the Violet Weston ' and Dorte Lyssewski the Barbara Fordham ' at the Vienna Burgtheater, Barbara Petrich which, Matti Fae ', Nana Krüger, Karen ' at Ernst German theater, Mechthild Grossmann that, Violet Weston ' at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and Falk Rockstroh. The productions were made among others by Alvis Hermanis at the Vienna Academy Theater and Enrico Luebbe at the Staatstheater Nürnberg.
2008 also followed a nomination for the Joseph Jefferson Award for the play Superior Donuts. In 2010 he was nominated for the lead role in the play American Buffalo, which was performed at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Joseph Jefferson Award for one. Another nomination for this award he received for his drama Killer Joe, which was staged at Chicago's Profiles Theatre.
Letts plays from the episode 3:01 Senator Andrew Lockhart in the U.S. series Homeland.
Awards and prizes
- 2008: Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for August: Osage County
- 2013: Tony Award for Best Actor in Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Various nominations: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504832/awards?ref_=nm_awd