Ethan Hawke

Described as

American actor and writer (born 1970)

Other names

Ethan Green Hawke

Born

November 6, 1970 · 12 references

Born in

Austin · 2 references

Name at birth

Ethan Green Hawke

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

film actor; film director; novelist; screenwriter; writer · 2 references; stage actor; television actor; comics writer

Education

New York University; Carnegie Mellon University; Hun School of Princeton; University of Texas at Austin · 1 reference; West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South · 1 reference; Packer Collegiate Institute

Member of

SAG-AFTRA; Screen Actors Guild; Writers Guild of America East

Awards

Donostia Award (2016); Film Independent Spirit Awards · 1 reference

Spouse

Uma Thurman (1998–2005) · 1 reference; Ryan Hawke (2008–)

Children

Maya Hawke; Levon Hawke; Clementine Hawke; Indiana Hawke

Father

James Steven Hawke · 1 reference

Mother

Leslie Carole Green · 1 reference

Lived in

Boerum Hill

Height

1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) · 1 reference

Wikipedias with a page

81

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Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, author, and filmmaker whose career on both stage and screen has spanned four decades. Known for his versatility across a range of roles and collaborations with director Richard Linklater, he has worked in both independent films and blockbusters. His accolades include a Daytime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globes, and a Tony Award.
Hawke made his film debut at age fourteen in Explorers (1985) and gained recognition for starring in Dead Poets Society (1989). He established himself as a leading man with the films Reality Bites (1994), Gattaca (1997), and Great Expectations (1998). He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in the crime thriller Training Day (2001) and coming-of-age drama Boyhood (2014); the latter garnered him BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations in the same category. Hawke was Oscar-nominated twice for screenwriting two films from the Before trilogy (1995–2013), in which he also starred. He earned Best Actor nominations at the Oscars, BAFTAs, and Golden Globes for portraying lyricist Lorenz Hart in the biopic Blue Moon (2025).
Hawke garnered commercial success with Sinister (2012), The Purge (2013), The Magnificent Seven (2016), and the Black Phone films (2021–2025), and was praised for Maudie (2016) and First Reformed (2017). He directed the films Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest State (2006), Blaze (2018), and Wildcat (2023), as well as the documentaries Seymour: An Introduction (2014), The Last Movie Stars (2022), and Highway 99: A Double Album (2025). He portrayed abolitionist John Brown in the miniseries The Good Lord Bird (2020), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, and appeared as Arthur Harrow in the Marvel miniseries Moon Knight (2022).
Hawke has appeared in many theater productions. He made his Broadway debut in 1992 in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2007 for his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. In 2010, he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for directing Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind. Divorced from actress Uma Thurman, he has been married to Ryan Shawhughes since 2008; he has two children from each marriage, including actors Maya and Levon Hawke.

Born, in its opening lines

November 6, 1970

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