Who is Carrie Coon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning husband, Tracy Letts? The White Lotus actress just clarified that they are not in an ‘open’ marriage, telling the internet to ‘settle down’
Carrie Coon may be the one grabbing headlines thanks to The White Lotus, but her husband is just as famous for writing August: Osage County, and starring in everything from Homeland to The Big Short
“Settle down, internet! I said ‘open minded’ not ‘open’,” she wrote on X in response to the rumours.
During the 44-year-old’s recent appearance on the WTF With Marc Maron Podcast, she chatted with the host about her marriage to Letts. “That’s the nice thing about a marriage where everything’s on the table; you talk about everything,” she said. “We’re not jealous people. Like, we don’t have any of those hang-ups. So we never wanna be, like, the police, you know? So it’s nice to be in a relationship where we can always talk about, like, ‘Who are you attracted to on set?’”
“Tracy’s the kind of person who notices every single woman on the street … and he always tells me who he has a crush on,” she added. “It’s fun. It’s interesting to know what your partner’s into. I think it’s titillating.”
Here’s what we know about Carrie Coon’s husband.
Is Tracy Letts related to Billie Letts?
Tracy Letts is indeed the son of the late American novelist Billie Letts. She was known for books such as Where the Heart Is and The Honk and the Holler Opening Soon. “I think mum was always more interested in telling stories of working-class people,” Tracy told The New York Times in an interview. Tracy’s father, Dennis, was an English professor and aspiring actor, per Britannica.
Tracy was born and raised in Oklahoma. “My parents were hugely influential on my creative life,” he told Roundabout Theatre in a 2019 interview. “They both had wonderful and surprising second careers, my father as an actor and my mother as a writer. They were both funny and mercurial and passionate and curious. Gifted storytellers.”