Ethan Hawke
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ethan Hawke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Black Phone 2 as The Grabber
- 2024 · My Generation as Narrator
- 2023 · Leave the World Behind as Clay Sandford
- 2022 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight as Self - Arthur Harrow
- 2021 · Zeros and Ones as JJ / Justin
- 2020 · Cut Throat City as Jackson Symms
- 2019 · Adopt a Highway as Russell Millings
- 2019 · The Truth as Hank
- 2019 · The Kid as Sheriff Pat Garrett
- 2018 · Blaze as Radio DJ
- 2018 · The King as Self
- 2018 · GQ Presents: Iconic Characters as Self
- 2017 · Talking with Chris Hardwick as Self
- 2016 · Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny as Self
- 2016 · The Phenom as Hopper Sr.
- 2015 · Born to Be Blue as Chet Baker
- 2015 · 10,000 Saints as Les Horn
- 2015 · Good Kill as Commandant Tom Egan
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2011 · The Woman in the Fifth as Tom Ricks
- 2009 · Staten Island as Sully
- 2008 · What Doesn't Kill You as Paulie
- 2006 · Fast Food Nation as Pete
- 2006 · The Hottest State as Vince
- 2005 · One Last Thing... as Earl Jameison (uncredited)
- 2001 · Tape as Vin
- 2001 · Chelsea Walls as Sam (voice) (uncredited)
- 1999 · Snow Falling on Cedars as Ishmael Chambers
- 1999 · Joe the King as Len Coles
- 1998 · The Newton Boys as Jess Newton
- 1994 · Floundering as Jimmy
- 1994 · White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf as Jack Conroy (uncredited)
- 1992 · Rich in Love as Wayne Frobiness
- 1992 · Waterland as Matthew Price
- 1992 · A Midnight Clear as Will Knott
- 1991 · Mystery Date as Tom McHugh
- 1989 · Dad as Billy
- Future · The Sensitive Kind as
- Future · Blue Tilt as
- 2023 · Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short as Self
- 2023 · Strange Way of Life as Jake
- 2022 · Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb as Self
- 2022 · Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as Efficient Man
- 2022 · Luna Moth (Performance Film) as Self
- 2022 · Batwheels as Batman (voice)
- 2022 · Raymond & Ray as Ray
- 2022 · Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone as Self
- 2022 · The Black Phone as The Grabber
- 2022 · The Northman as King Aurvandil War-Raven
- 2022 · Moon Knight as Arthur Harrow
- 2021 · The Guilty as Sgt. Bill Miller (voice)
- 2021 · Reservation Dogs as Rick Miller
- 2021 · Waiting for Godot as Vladimir
- 2020 · The Good Lord Bird as John Brown
- 2020 · Tesla as Nikola Tesla
- 2020 · Before the End as Self - Jesse
- 2019 · Stockholm as Lars Nystrom
- 2019 · Desus & Mero as Self - Illustrious Guest
- 2018 · Let's Dance as Segment: "Table Manners"
- 2018 · The Purge as James Sandin
- 2018 · Juliet, Naked as Tucker Crowe
- 2018 · Explained as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · First Reformed as Pastor Ernst Toller
- 2017 · 24 Hours to Live as Travis Conrad
- 2017 · Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets as Jolly the Pimp
- 2017 · After Before as Self
- 2017 · The Space in Between as Self
- 2016 · In a Valley of Violence as Paul
- 2016 · The Magnificent Seven as Goodnight Robicheaux
- 2016 · Maudie as Everett Lewis
- 2016 · Maggie's Plan as John Harding
- 2016 · Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
- 2016 · Invasion! as Voice of the Cosmos (voice)
- 2015 · Chattanooga Strong as Narrator
- 2015 · Regression as Bruce Kenner
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Seymour: An Introduction as Self
- 2015 · All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life as Self
- 2015 · Twelve Years as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · 21 Years: Richard Linklater as Self - Actor
- 2014 · Cymbeline as Iachimo
- 2014 · Predestination as The Bartender
- 2014 · Boyhood as Dad
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2013 · Welcome Nowhere as Narrator
- 2013 · Getaway as Brent Magna
- 2013 · The Purge as James Sandin
- 2013 · Before Midnight as Jesse
- 2012 · Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God as Pat (voice)
- 2012 · Total Recall as Carl Hauser (director’s cut)
- 2012 · Shakespeare Uncovered as Self
- 2012 · Sinister as Ellison Oswalt
- 2011 · Moby Dick as Starbuck
- 2010 · Conan as Self
- 2010 · The Making of Daybreakers as Self
- 2010 · Brooklyn's Finest as Det. Sal Procida
- 2010 · Daybreakers as Edward Dalton
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2008 · New York, I Love You as Writer
- 2008 · Chelsea on the Rocks as Self
- 2008 · Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made as Self
- 2007 · Before the Devil Knows You're Dead as Hank Hanson
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest
- 2007 · The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation' as Self
- 2006 · Dead Poets: A Look Back as
- 2005 · Lord of War as Jack Valentine
- 2005 · Assault on Precinct 13 as Sergeant Jake Roenick
- 2005 · The Phoenix Portal as Ben Crandall (archive footage)
- 2004 · Before Sunset as Jesse
- 2004 · Taking Lives as James Costa
- 2003 · pollyDAYS as Self
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 2002 · Bo' Selecta! as Self
- 2002 · All the Love You Cannes! as Self
- 2002 · The Jimmy Show as Ray
- 2001 · Waking Life as Jesse
- 2001 · Training Day as Jake
- 2001 · Alias as James Lennox
- 2000 · Hamlet as Hamlet
- 1999 · The Velocity of Gary as Nat
- 1998 · Great Expectations as Finnegan Bell
- 1997 · Gattaca as Vincent Freeman
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1995 · Search and Destroy as Roger
- 1995 · Before Sunrise as Jesse
- 1995 · At Sundance as Self
- 1994 · Quiz Show as Columbia Student (uncredited)
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1994 · Reality Bites as Troy Dyer
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · Alive as Nando Parrado
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1991 · White Fang as Jack Conroy
- 1989 · Dead Poets Society as Todd Anderson
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- Future · Batso as Warren 'Batso' Harding
- Future · Tonight at Noon as Lefty
- Future · Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart
- Future · Revolver as
- Future · Niềm Tin Lung Lay as Ethan Hawke
- 1988 · Lion's Den as Chris
- 1985 · Explorers as Ben Crandall
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · The Last of the Tribe as William Phelan