Ethan Hawke
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1970-11-06
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.
Also Known For
Before Sunrise
Jan 27, 1995
Before Sunset
Jun 16, 2004
Dead Poets Society
Jun 02, 1989
Training Day
Oct 05, 2001
Gattaca
Sep 07, 1997
The Phoenix Portal
Jan 01, 2005
Snow Falling on Cedars
Dec 22, 1999
Lord of War
Sep 16, 2005
Hamlet
May 12, 2000
Reality Bites
Feb 18, 1994
Taking Lives
Mar 19, 2004
Dad
Oct 27, 1989
A Midnight Clear
Apr 24, 1992
Alive
Jan 15, 1993
Tape
Nov 02, 2001
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Sep 26, 2007
Tonight at Noon
Fast Food Nation
Nov 17, 2006
White Fang
Jan 18, 1991
Assault on Precinct 13
Jan 19, 2005
Great Expectations
Jan 30, 1998
Brooklyn's Finest
Mar 04, 2010
Staten Island
Feb 07, 2009
Explorers
Jul 12, 1985
The Newton Boys
Mar 26, 1998
What Doesn't Kill You
Dec 12, 2008
Before the End
May 24, 2020
Daybreakers
Jan 06, 2010
Leave the World Behind
Nov 22, 2023
Mystery Date
Aug 16, 1991
Joe the King
Jan 22, 1999
The Woman in the Fifth
Sep 11, 2011
Sinister
Mar 29, 2012
Boyhood
Jun 05, 2014
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Feb 04, 2012
The Jimmy Show
Jan 16, 2002
Chelsea on the Rocks
May 23, 2008
Getaway
Aug 29, 2013
Waterland
Aug 21, 1992
Before Midnight
Apr 05, 2013
The Purge
May 31, 2013
Rich in Love
Sep 04, 1992
Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Dec 30, 2022
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
Feb 07, 2007
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
May 24, 2022
Predestination
Aug 28, 2014
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
Apr 15, 1994
10,000 Saints
Aug 14, 2015
Good Kill
Apr 09, 2015
Dead Poets: A Look Back
Jan 10, 2006
Cymbeline
Sep 03, 2014
Regression
Oct 01, 2015
Strange Way of Life
May 26, 2023
Search and Destroy
Apr 23, 1995
Invasion!
Apr 01, 2016
Floundering
Nov 04, 1994
Black Phone 2
Oct 15, 2025
New York, I Love You
Sep 06, 2008
Welcome Nowhere
Sep 28, 2013
In a Valley of Violence
Oct 21, 2016
pollyDAYS
Aug 14, 2003
Maggie's Plan
Apr 27, 2016
Luna Moth (Performance Film)
Nov 07, 2022
Lion's Den
Jan 01, 1988
The Magnificent Seven
Sep 14, 2016
Born to Be Blue
Sep 13, 2015
Maudie
Jun 16, 2016
The Hottest State
Jun 27, 2007
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Nov 23, 2022
Seymour: An Introduction
Mar 13, 2015
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Jul 19, 2017
21 Years: Richard Linklater
Nov 07, 2014
Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone
Oct 03, 2022
The Last of the Tribe
The Phenom
Jun 24, 2016
Blue Moon
Oct 17, 2025
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
Jun 11, 2023
Stockholm
Apr 12, 2019
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Nov 16, 2012
All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life
Feb 10, 2015
Juliet, Naked
Aug 16, 2018
The Space in Between
Feb 28, 2017
First Reformed
May 18, 2018
The King
Jun 22, 2018
24 Hours to Live
Oct 26, 2017
At Sundance
Jan 01, 1995
The Kid
Mar 08, 2019
Blaze
Aug 17, 2018
Tesla
Aug 14, 2020
Starring Austin Pendleton
Apr 01, 2016
The Truth
Oct 10, 2019
Chattanooga Strong
Nov 13, 2015
Cut Throat City
Jul 31, 2020
Adopt a Highway
Nov 01, 2019
Let's Dance
Dec 06, 2018
Quiz Show
Aug 25, 1994
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
Apr 15, 2008
The Making of Daybreakers
May 11, 2010
After Before
Feb 28, 2017
Waking Life
Oct 19, 2001
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
Aug 05, 2016
Chelsea Walls
Sep 21, 2001
All the Love You Cannes!
May 16, 2002
The Northman
Apr 07, 2022
Revolver
Zeros and Ones
Nov 18, 2021
The Guilty
Sep 24, 2021
Twelve Years
Jan 06, 2015
The Black Phone
Jun 16, 2022
The Velocity of Gary
Jul 16, 1999
One Last Thing...
Sep 12, 2005
Waiting for Godot
May 06, 2021
Raymond & Ray
Oct 14, 2022
The Weight
Jan 26, 2026
She Dances
Jun 05, 2025
Hippies
Total Recall
Aug 02, 2012
Inside the Actors Studio
Aug 14, 1994
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
Alias
Sep 30, 2001
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Moon Knight
Mar 30, 2022
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Moby Dick
May 08, 2011
Explained
May 23, 2018
Shakespeare Uncovered
Jun 19, 2012
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Talking with Chris Hardwick
Apr 09, 2017
Batwheels
Oct 15, 2022
Reservation Dogs
Aug 09, 2021
The View
Aug 11, 1997
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
The Good Lord Bird
Oct 04, 2020
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
The Purge
Sep 04, 2018
Real Time with Bill Maher
Feb 21, 2003
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Feb 06, 2014
Conan
Nov 08, 2010
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
Mar 23, 2018
Great Performances
Jan 28, 1971
Desus & Mero
Feb 21, 2019
The Lowdown
Sep 23, 2025
Bo' Selecta!
Sep 06, 2002
My Generation
Oct 05, 2024
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Vietnam: The War That Changed America
Jan 31, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
The American Revolution
Nov 16, 2025
The American Revolution
Nov 16, 2025