Artist

Dennis Letts taught English writing and literature in various colleges and universities before he began acting professionally at age 50 with a small role in a television mini-series. Since then, he has appeared in over forty films and television shows as a character actor, including Little Boy Blue, Infamous, Secondhand Lions, Cast Away, Perfect World, Bloodsuckers from Outer Space and Where the Heart Is. Recent theater work includes two original plays performed in Austin, Texas: Dead Presidents’ Club by Larry L. King and Sonny’s Last Shot by Lawrence Wright. Dennis is a steak and potato lover who spent four years in the Air Force, received bachelors and masters degrees from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah and the University of Tulsa, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, lectured in Denmark on a Fulbright grant and contends that the most interesting part of his life is his family—sons Dana, Shawn and Tracy and wife, Billie Letts, award-winning author of Where the Heart Is.