Ethan Hawke
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1970-11-06 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Austin, Texas, USA
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
Acting
Niềm Tin Lung Lay
as Ethan Hawke
Batso and the Wall
as Warren 'Batso' Harding
Tonight at Noon
as Lefty
The Last of the Tribe
as William Phelan
(2025)
Black Phone 2
as The Grabber
(2025)
Blue Moon
as Lorenz Hart
(2025)
(2023)
Leave the World Behind
as Clay Sandford
(2023)
Strange Way of Life
as Jake
(2023)
(2022)
The Northman
as King Aurvandil War-Raven
(2022)
The Black Phone
as The Grabber
(2022)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
as Efficient Man
(2022)
Raymond & Ray
as Ray
(2022)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
as Self - Arthur Harrow
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
Luna Moth (Performance Film)
as Self
(2021)
The Guilty
as Sgt. Bill Miller (voice)
(2021)
Zeros and Ones
as JJ / Justin
(2021)
Waiting for Godot
as Vladimir
(2020)
Tesla
as Nikola Tesla
(2020)
Cut Throat City
as Jackson Symms
(2020)
Before the End
as Self - Jesse
(2019)
Stockholm
as Lars Nystrom
(2019)
The Kid
as Sheriff Pat Garrett
(2019)
The Truth
as Hank
(2019)
Adopt a Highway
as Russell Millings
(2018)
First Reformed
as Pastor Ernst Toller
(2018)
Juliet, Naked
as Tucker Crowe
(2018)
Blaze
as Radio DJ
(2018)
The King
as Self
(2018)
Let's Dance
as Segment: "Table Manners"
(2017)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Jolly the Pimp
(2017)
24 Hours to Live
as Travis Conrad
(2017)
The Space in Between
as Self
(2017)
After Before
as Self
(2016)
The Magnificent Seven
as Goodnight Robicheaux
(2016)
Maudie
as Everett Lewis
(2016)
Maggie's Plan
as John Harding
(2016)
In a Valley of Violence
as Paul
(2016)
The Phenom
as Hopper Sr.
(2016)
(2016)
Starring Austin Pendleton
as Self
(2016)
Invasion!
as Voice of the Cosmos (voice)
(2015)
Regression
as Bruce Kenner
(2015)
Good Kill
as Commandant Tom Egan
(2015)
Born to Be Blue
as Chet Baker
(2015)
10,000 Saints
as Les Horn
(2015)
Seymour: An Introduction
as Self
(2015)
(2015)
Twelve Years
as Self
(2015)
Chattanooga Strong
as Narrator
(2014)
Predestination
as The Bartender
(2014)
Boyhood
as Dad
(2014)
Cymbeline
as Iachimo
(2014)
21 Years: Richard Linklater
as Self - Actor
(2013)
The Purge
as James Sandin
(2013)
Before Midnight
as Jesse
(2013)
Getaway
as Brent Magna
(2013)
Welcome Nowhere
as Narrator
(2012)
Total Recall
as Carl Hauser (director’s cut)
(2012)
Sinister
as Ellison Oswalt
(2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
(2012)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
as Pat (voice)
(2011)
The Woman in the Fifth
as Tom Ricks
(2010)
Daybreakers
as Edward Dalton
(2010)
Brooklyn's Finest
as Det. Sal Procida
(2010)
The Making of Daybreakers
as Self
(2009)
Staten Island
as Sully
(2008)
New York, I Love You
as Writer
(2008)
What Doesn't Kill You
as Paulie
(2008)
Chelsea on the Rocks
as Self
(2008)
(2007)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
as Hank Hanson
(2007)
The Hottest State
as Vince
(2007)
(2006)
Fast Food Nation
as Pete
(2006)
(2005)
Lord of War
as Jack Valentine
(2005)
Assault on Precinct 13
as Sergeant Jake Roenick
(2005)
One Last Thing...
as Earl Jameison (uncredited)
(2005)
The Phoenix Portal
as Ben Crandall (archive footage)
(2004)
Before Sunset
as Jesse
(2004)
Taking Lives
as James Costa
(2003)
pollyDAYS
as Self
(2002)
All the Love You Cannes!
as Self
(2002)
The Jimmy Show
as Ray
(2001)
Training Day
as Jake
(2001)
Waking Life
as Jesse
(2001)
Tape
as Vin
(2001)
Chelsea Walls
as Sam (voice) (uncredited)
(2000)
Hamlet
as Hamlet
(1999)
Snow Falling on Cedars
as Ishmael Chambers
(1999)
Joe the King
as Len Coles
(1999)
The Velocity of Gary
as Nat
(1998)
Great Expectations
as Finnegan Bell
(1998)
The Newton Boys
as Jess Newton
(1997)
Gattaca
as Vincent Freeman
(1995)
Before Sunrise
as Jesse
(1995)
Search and Destroy
as Roger
(1995)
At Sundance
as Self
(1994)
Quiz Show
as Columbia Student (uncredited)
(1994)
Reality Bites
as Troy Dyer
(1994)
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
as Jack Conroy (uncredited)
(1994)
Floundering
as Jimmy
(1993)
Alive
as Nando Parrado
(1992)
A Midnight Clear
as Will Knott
(1992)
Waterland
as Matthew Price
(1992)
Rich in Love
as Wayne Frobiness
(1991)
White Fang
as Jack Conroy
(1991)
Mystery Date
as Tom McHugh
(1989)
Dead Poets Society
as Todd Anderson
(1989)
Dad
as Billy
(1988)
Lion's Den
as Chris
(1985)
Explorers
as Ben Crandall
Crew
Camino Real
Screenplay, Director
Untitled The Gunfighter Remake
Writer, Producer
(2024)
Wildcat
Director, Writer, Producer
(2019)
Adopt a Highway
Producer
(2018)
Blaze
Writer, Director, Producer
(2015)
Seymour: An Introduction
Director
(2013)
Before Midnight
Writer
(2013)
Making a Scene
Writer
(2007)
The Hottest State
Director, Writer
(2004)
Before Sunset
Screenplay
(2001)
Chelsea Walls
Director
(1993)
Straight to One
Producer, Director, Writer