# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dennis-letts
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:14:43.322Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dennis-letts"
name: "Dennis Letts"
slug: "dennis-letts"
description: "Dennis Letts was an American college professor, and later, in a second career, an actor. As the latter, he originated the critically successful role of Beverly Weston in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of the Tony-winning play August: Osage County in the summer of 2007, the writing of which had earned his son, Tracy Letts, a Pulitzer Prize."
tagline: "American educator, actor (1934-2008)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/eJW5Uzv6DP9n4iOG2Z0W1PgjWCG.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1934-09-05"
deathDate: "2008-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.68
  momentum:             1.492146596858639
  historical:           3.628157333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504822/"
    handle:    "nm0504822"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "دينيس ليتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8E%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%84%DB%8E%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "دێنیس لێتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Letts"
    title: "Dennis Letts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5258643"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219220"
    title: "Dennis Letts"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations