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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
November 6, 1970
Place of Birth:
Austin, Texas, USA
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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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Black Phone 2 | The Grabber |
| 2025 | Blue Moon | Lorenz Hart |
| 2025 | She Dances | Brian |
| 2023 | Leave the World Behind | Clay Sandford |
| 2023 | Strange Way of Life | Jake |
| 2023 | Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short | Self |
| 2023 | Art-House America: Austin Film Society | Self (Archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb | Self |
| 2022 | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight | Self - Arthur Harrow |
| 2022 | Luna Moth (Performance Film) | Self |
| 2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Efficient Man |
| 2022 | Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone | Self |
| 2022 | The Northman | King Aurvandil War-Raven |
| 2022 | The Black Phone | The Grabber |
| 2022 | Raymond & Ray | Ray |
| 2021 | Zeros and Ones | JJ / Justin |
| 2021 | The Guilty | Sgt. Bill Miller (voice) |
| 2021 | Waiting for Godot | Vladimir |
| 2020 | Before the End | Self - Jesse |
| 2020 | Tesla | Nikola Tesla |
| 2020 | Cut Throat City | Jackson Symms |
| 2019 | Stockholm | Lars Nystrom |
| 2019 | The Kid | Sheriff Pat Garrett |
| 2019 | The Truth | Hank |
| 2019 | Adopt a Highway | Russell Millings |
| 2018 | Juliet, Naked | Tucker Crowe |
| 2018 | First Reformed | Pastor Ernst Toller |
| 2018 | The King | Self |
| 2018 | Blaze | Radio DJ |
| 2018 | Let's Dance | Segment: "Table Manners" |
| 2017 | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | Jolly the Pimp |
| 2017 | The Space in Between | Self |
| 2017 | 24 Hours to Live | Travis Conrad |
| 2017 | After Before | Self |
| 2016 | Invasion! | Voice of the Cosmos (voice) |
| 2016 | In a Valley of Violence | Paul |
| 2016 | Maggie's Plan | John Harding |
| 2016 | The Magnificent Seven | Goodnight Robicheaux |
| 2016 | Maudie | Everett Lewis |
| 2016 | The Phenom | Hopper Sr. |
| 2016 | Starring Austin Pendleton | Self |
| 2016 | Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny | Self |
| 2015 | 10,000 Saints | Les Horn |
| 2015 | Good Kill | Commandant Tom Egan |
| 2015 | Regression | Bruce Kenner |
| 2015 | Born to Be Blue | Chet Baker |
| 2015 | Seymour: An Introduction | Self |
| 2015 | All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life | Self |
| 2015 | Chattanooga Strong | Narrator |
| 2015 | Twelve Years | Self |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Dad |
| 2014 | Predestination | The Bartender |
| 2014 | Cymbeline | Iachimo |
| 2014 | 21 Years: Richard Linklater | Self - Actor |
| 2013 | Getaway | Brent Magna |
| 2013 | Before Midnight | Jesse |
| 2013 | The Purge | James Sandin |
| 2013 | Welcome Nowhere | Narrator |
| 2012 | Total Recall | Carl Hauser (director’s cut) |
| 2012 | Sinister | Ellison Oswalt |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | Pat (voice) |
| 2011 | The Woman in the Fifth | Tom Ricks |
| 2010 | Brooklyn's Finest | Det. Sal Procida |
| 2010 | Daybreakers | Edward Dalton |
| 2010 | The Making of Daybreakers | Self |
| 2009 | Staten Island | Sully |
| 2008 | What Doesn't Kill You | Paulie |
| 2008 | Chelsea on the Rocks | Self |
| 2008 | New York, I Love You | Writer |
| 2008 | Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made | Self |
| 2007 | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Hank Hanson |
| 2007 | The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation' | Self |
| 2007 | The Hottest State | Vince |
| 2006 | Fast Food Nation | Pete |
| 2006 | Dead Poets: A Look Back | |
| 2005 | The Phoenix Portal | Ben Crandall (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Lord of War | Jack Valentine |
| 2005 | Assault on Precinct 13 | Sergeant Jake Roenick |
| 2005 | One Last Thing... | Earl Jameison (uncredited) |
| 2004 | Before Sunset | Jesse |
| 2004 | Taking Lives | James Costa |
| 2003 | pollyDAYS | Self |
| 2002 | The Jimmy Show | Ray |
| 2002 | All the Love You Cannes! | Self |
| 2001 | Training Day | Jake |
| 2001 | Tape | Vin |
| 2001 | Waking Life | Jesse |
| 2001 | Chelsea Walls | Sam (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2000 | Hamlet | Hamlet |
| 1999 | Snow Falling on Cedars | Ishmael Chambers |
| 1999 | Joe the King | Len Coles |
| 1999 | The Velocity of Gary | Nat |
| 1998 | Great Expectations | Finnegan Bell |
| 1998 | The Newton Boys | Jess Newton |
| 1997 | Gattaca | Vincent Freeman |
| 1995 | Before Sunrise | Jesse |
| 1995 | Search and Destroy | Roger |
| 1995 | At Sundance | Self |
| 1994 | Reality Bites | Troy Dyer |
| 1994 | White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf | Jack Conroy (uncredited) |
| 1994 | Floundering | Jimmy |
| 1994 | Quiz Show | Columbia Student (uncredited) |
| 1993 | Alive | Nando Parrado |
| 1992 | A Midnight Clear | Will Knott |
| 1992 | Waterland | Matthew Price |
| 1992 | Rich in Love | Wayne Frobiness |
| 1991 | White Fang | Jack Conroy |
| 1991 | Mystery Date | Tom McHugh |
| 1989 | Dead Poets Society | Todd Anderson |
| 1989 | Dad | Billy |
| 1988 | Lion's Den | Chris |
| 1985 | Explorers | Ben Crandall |
| Tonight at Noon | Lefty | |
| Batso | Warren 'Batso' Harding | |
| The Last of the Tribe | William Phelan | |
| Niềm Tin Lung Lay | Ethan Hawke | |
| Revolver | ||
| The Weight | Samuel |