No one is a bigger fan of Carrie Coon than her husband, award-winning playwright Tracy Letts. 

The White Lotus actress and the Lady Bird actor first crossed paths in 2010, during her audition for a revival of the 1962 play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. By the time the production had reached Broadway in 2012, their relationship had turned romantic. 

“I have a healthy, happy marriage,” Coon told The Guardian in 2021. “When I was younger, let’s say I didn’t always conduct myself with integrity in my relationships. Now I’ve found a partner who I can be truly honest with, I never want to go back.” 

After marrying in 2013, Coon and Letts welcomed two children. Their son, Haskell Letts, was born in 2018, and their daughter, whose name has not been made public, was born in 2021. 

From meeting in an audition to parenting two children, here’s everything to know about Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts' relationship. 

Letts was born and raised in Oklahoma by actor Dennis Letts and novelist Billie Letts. His 2007 Pulitzer-winning play August: Osage County — which was adapted into the 2014 film of the same name starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts — was inspired by his own life. 

"It's based on family history," Letts told NPR in 2014. "My grandfather — my mother's father — committed suicide when I was 10 years old ... My grandmother descended into years of downer addiction, which had a horrible impact on my family, and has ripples in my family even to this day.” 

In addition to August: Osage County, Letts has written several successful plays, including Killer Joe, Bug and Man From Nebraska, per his Steppenwolf Theatre Company bio. Three of his plays have been adapted for the big screen: Bug, Killer Joe and August: Osage County. 

The playwright has also acted onstage — most notably as George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which won him a Tony award — and on-screen. Letts has had roles in films like The Post, Lady Bird and The Big Short, as well as TV series including Prison Break, Homeland and Seinfeld. 

Coon and Letts were introduced during her audition for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 2010. The Gilded Age actress told Rolling Stone in 2018 that she had heard of the playwright’s work prior to meeting him but got one detail wrong. 

“I thought he was a girl,” she said. “I thought, ‘Huh…good for that girl! That gal writing that fantastic play. You go!’ If I had known more, I would have been a lot more scared.”

Coon and Letts started dating during the run of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in Chicago and married in 2013. Because they were busy working at the time, their marriage license almost expired before they could tie the knot.

So when Letts had to have emergency gallbladder surgery on the last day of their license, the couple opted to say “I do” in his hospital room.  

“Tracy’s WGA insurance covered that whole visit, so it was a very inexpensive wedding,” Coon said to Rolling Stone, joking that her husband was “high as a kite” on painkillers during the ceremony. 

Letts and Coon share two children. Their son, Haskell, was born on March 13, 2018, and named after his late great-grandfather, Charles Haskell Letts. Coon told Harper’s Bazaar that after she got pregnant, her husband’s work ethic became more intense. 

“When I got pregnant with our son four years ago, Tracy really went into overdrive,” she told the outlet in 2021. “It was as though there was some biological imperative to take care of his family that kicked in. He just said yes to everything.” 

Coon gave birth to their daughter in the summer of 2021, per Entertainment Tonight.

In addition to collaborating onstage, Coon and Letts have also worked together on-screen. They both appeared in The Post and in season 2 of The Sinner. Coon has also been cast in a few of her husband’s plays at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, including Mary Page Marlowe. 

“It’s not that strange for me to be working with Tracy, because we’ve collaborated many times,” Coon said in a joint 2020 interview with Chicago Magazine. “There’s never trepidation about whether or not that process will be successful, because we always enjoy each other in that capacity.”