Ethan Hawke
Biography
Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, writer and director. He made his feature film debut in 1985 with the science fiction movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society which is considered his breakthrough role. He then appeared in such films as White Fang (1991), A Midnight Clear (1992), and Alive (1993) before taking a role in the 1994 Generation X drama Reality Bites, for which he gained critical acclaim. In 1995, he starred in the romantic drama Before Sunrise, and later in its sequel Before Sunset (2004). In 2001, Hawke was cast as a rookie police officer in Training Day, for which he received a Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category. Other films have included the science fiction feature Gattaca (1997), the title role in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000), the action thriller Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), and the crime drama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007). Hawke has appeared in many theater productions including The Seagull, Henry IV, Hurlyburly, The Cherry Orchard, The Winter's Tale and The Coast of Utopia, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination. He made his directorial debut with the 2002 independent feature Chelsea Walls. In November 2007 Hawke directed his first play, Jonathan Marc Sherman's Things We Want. Aside from acting, he has written two novels, The Hottest State (1996) and Ash Wednesday (2002). Between 1998 and 2004, Hawke was married to actress Uma Thurman. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ethan Hawke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Jesse
Before Sunrise
Jesse
Before Sunset
Todd Anderson
Dead Poets Society
Jake
Training Day
Vincent Freeman
Gattaca
Ben Crandall (archive footage)
The Phoenix Portal
Ishmael Chambers
Snow Falling on Cedars
Jack Valentine
Lord of War
Hamlet
Hamlet
Troy Dyer
Reality Bites
Carl Hauser (director’s cut)
Total Recall
James Costa
Taking Lives
Billy
Dad
Will Knott
A Midnight Clear
Nando Parrado
Alive
Vin
Tape
Hank Hanson
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Lefty
Tonight at Noon
Pete
Fast Food Nation
Jack Conroy
White Fang
Sergeant Jake Roenick
Assault on Precinct 13
Finnegan Bell
Great Expectations
Det. Sal Procida
Brooklyn's Finest
Sully
Staten Island
Ben Crandall
Explorers
Jess Newton
The Newton Boys
Paulie
What Doesn't Kill You
Self - Jesse
Before the End
Edward Dalton
Daybreakers
Clay Sandford
Leave the World Behind
Tom McHugh
Mystery Date
Len Coles
Joe the King
Tom Ricks
La femme du Vème
Ellison Oswalt
Sinister
Dad
Boyhood
(archive footage)
Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim
Ray
The Jimmy Show
Self
Chelsea on the Rocks
Brent Magna
Getaway
Matthew Price
Waterland
Jesse
Before Midnight
James Sandin
The Purge
Wayne Frobiness
Rich in Love
Self
Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Self
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
Self - Arthur Harrow
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
The Bartender
Predestination
Jack Conroy (uncredited)
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
Les Horn
10,000 Saints
Commandant Tom Egan
Good Kill
Dead Poets: A Look Back
Iachimo
Cymbeline
Bruce Kenner
Regression
Jake
Extraña forma de vida
Roger
Search and Destroy
Voice of the Cosmos (voice)
Invasion!
Jimmy
Floundering
The Grabber
The Black Phone 2
Writer
New York, I Love You
Narrator
Welcome Nowhere
Paul
In a Valley of Violence
Self
pollyDAYS
John Harding
Maggie's Plan
Self
Luna Moth (Performance Film)
Chris
Lion's Den
Warren 'Batso' Harding
Batso and the Wall
Goodnight Robicheaux
The Magnificent Seven
Chet Baker
Born to Be Blue
Everett Lewis
Maudie
Vince
The Hottest State
Efficient Man
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Self
Seymour: An Introduction
Jolly the Pimp
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Self - Actor
21 Years: Richard Linklater
Self
Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone
William Phelan
The Last of the Tribe
Hopper Sr.
The Phenom
Lorenz Hart
Blue Moon
Self
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
Ethan Hawke
Niềm Tin Lung Lay
Lars Nystrom
Stockholm
Pat (voice)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Self
All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life
Tucker Crowe
Juliet, Naked
Self
The Space in Between
Pastor Ernst Toller
First Reformed
Self
The King
Travis Conrad
24 Hours To Live
Self
At Sundance
Sheriff Pat Garrett
The Kid
Radio DJ
Blaze
Nikola Tesla
Tesla
Self
Starring Austin Pendleton
Hank
La Vérité
Narrator
Chattanooga Strong
Jackson Symms
Cut Throat City
Russell Millings
Adopt a Highway
Segment: "Table Manners"
Let's Dance
Columbia Student (uncredited)
Quiz Show
Self
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
Self
The Making of Daybreakers
Self
After Before
Jesse
Waking Life
Self
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
Sam (voice) (uncredited)
Chelsea Walls
Self
All the Love You Cannes!
King Aurvandil War-Raven
The Northman
Revolver
JJ / Justin
Zeros and Ones
Sgt. Bill Miller (voice)
The Guilty
Self
Twelve Years
The Grabber
The Black Phone
Nat
The Velocity of Gary
Earl Jameison (uncredited)
One Last Thing...
Vladimir
Waiting for Godot
Ray
Raymond & Ray
The Weight
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
117
Gender
Male
Birthday
1970-11-06
Place of Birth
Austin, Texas, USA
Also Known As
Ethan Green Hawke