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.
Acting (110 movies)
Before Sunrise
1995
Before Sunset
2004
Dead Poets Society
1989
Training Day
2001
Gattaca
1997
The Phoenix Portal
2005
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
Lord of War
2005
Hamlet
2000
Reality Bites
1994
Taking Lives
2004
Dad
1989
A Midnight Clear
1992
Alive
1993
Tape
2001
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007
Fast Food Nation
2006
White Fang
1991
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
Great Expectations
1998
Brooklyn's Finest
2010
Staten Island
2009
Explorers
1985
The Newton Boys
1998
What Doesn't Kill You
2008
Before the End
2020
Daybreakers
2010
Leave the World Behind
2023
Mystery Date
1991
Joe the King
1999
The Woman in the Fifth
2011
Sinister
2012
Boyhood
2014
The Jimmy Show
2002
Chelsea on the Rocks
2008
Getaway
2013
Waterland
1992
Before Midnight
2013
The Purge
2013
Rich in Love
1992
Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
2022
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
2022
Predestination
2014
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
1994
10,000 Saints
2015
Good Kill
2015
Dead Poets: A Look Back
2006
Cymbeline
2014
Regression
2015
Strange Way of Life
2023
Search and Destroy
1995
Invasion!
2016
Floundering
1994
Black Phone 2
2025
New York, I Love You
2008
Welcome Nowhere
2013
In a Valley of Violence
2016
pollyDAYS
2003
Maggie's Plan
2016
Luna Moth (Performance Film)
2022
Lion's Den
1988
The Magnificent Seven
2016
Born to Be Blue
2015
Maudie
2016
The Hottest State
2007
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
Seymour: An Introduction
2015
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014
Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone
2022
The Phenom
2016
Blue Moon
2025
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
2023
Stockholm
2019
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life
2015
Juliet, Naked
2018
The Space in Between
2017
First Reformed
2018
The King
2018
24 Hours to Live
2017
At Sundance
1995
The Kid
2019
Blaze
2018
Tesla
2020
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
The Truth
2019
Chattanooga Strong
2015
Cut Throat City
2020
Adopt a Highway
2019
Let's Dance
2018
Quiz Show
1994
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
2008
The Making of Daybreakers
2010
After Before
2017
Waking Life
2001
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016
Chelsea Walls
2001
All the Love You Cannes!
2002
Directing (7 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Straight to One | 1993 | Producer |
| Straight to One | 1993 | Writer |
| Before Sunset | 2004 | Screenplay |
| The Hottest State | 2007 | Writer |
| Before Midnight | 2013 | Writer |
| Blaze | 2018 | Writer |
| Blaze | 2018 | Producer |
| Adopt a Highway | 2019 | Producer |
| Wildcat | 2024 | Writer |
| Wildcat | 2024 | Producer |
| King Hamlet | 2025 | Executive Producer |