Rate Person

Ethan Hawke

Acting

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.

Ethan Hawke

Biography

Films Featuring Ethan Hawke

Before Sunrise

Before Sunset

Dead Poets Society

Training Day

Gattaca

The Phoenix Portal

Snow Falling on Cedars

Lord of War

Hamlet

Reality Bites

Taking Lives

Dad

A Midnight Clear

Alive

Tape

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Tonight at Noon

Fast Food Nation

White Fang

Assault on Precinct 13

Great Expectations

Brooklyn's Finest

Staten Island

Explorers

The Newton Boys

What Doesn't Kill You

Before the End

Daybreakers

Leave the World Behind

Mystery Date

Joe the King

The Woman in the Fifth

Sinister

Boyhood

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

The Jimmy Show

Chelsea on the Rocks

Getaway

Waterland

Before Midnight

The Purge

Rich in Love

Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight

Predestination

White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf

10,000 Saints

Good Kill

Cymbeline

Regression

Strange Way of Life

Search and Destroy

Invasion!

Floundering

Black Phone 2

New York, I Love You

Welcome Nowhere

In a Valley of Violence

pollyDAYS

Maggie's Plan

Lion's Den

The Magnificent Seven

Born to Be Blue

Maudie

The Hottest State

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Seymour: An Introduction

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

21 Years: Richard Linklater

Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone

The Last of the Tribe

The Phenom

Blue Moon

Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short

Stockholm

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God