Ethan Hawke
Acting
1970-11-06 · Austin, Texas, USA
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.
Filmography
TheatersThe Weight
2026 · Movie
TheatersI, Object
2026 · Movie
She Dances
2026 · Movie
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025 · Series
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025 · Movie
The American Revolution
2025 · Series
Blue Moon
2025 · Movie
Black Phone 2
2025 · Movie
The Lowdown
2025 · Series
King Hamlet
2025 · Movie
Highway 99: A Double Album
2025 · Movie
Vietnam: The War That Changed America
2025 · Series
My Generation
2024 · Series
Wildcat
2024 · Movie
Leave the World Behind
2023 · Movie
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
2023 · Movie
Strange Way of Life
2023 · Movie
Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
2022 · Movie
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022 · Movie
Batwheels
2022 · Series
Raymond & Ray
2022 · Movie
Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone
2022 · Movie
The Last Movie Stars
2022 · Series
The Black Phone
2022 · Movie
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
2022 · Movie
The Northman
2022 · Movie
Moon Knight
2022 · Series
Zeros and Ones
2021 · Movie
The Guilty
2021 · Movie
Reservation Dogs
2021 · Series
Waiting for Godot
2021 · Movie
The Good Lord Bird
2020 · Series
Tesla
2020 · Movie
Cut Throat City
2020 · Movie
Before the End
2020 · Movie
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
2020 · Movie
Adopt a Highway
2019 · Movie
The Truth
2019 · Movie
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
Stockholm
2019 · Movie
The Kid
2019 · Movie
Desus & Mero
2019 · Series
Let's Dance
2018 · Movie
The Purge
2018 · Series
Blaze
2018 · Movie
Juliet, Naked
2018 · Movie
The King
2018 · Movie
Explained
2018 · Series
First Reformed
2018 · Movie
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
2018 · Series
24 Hours to Live
2017 · Movie
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017 · Movie
Talking with Chris Hardwick
2017 · Series
After Before
2017 · Movie
The Space in Between
2017 · Movie
In a Valley of Violence
2016 · Movie
The Magnificent Seven
2016 · Movie
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016 · Movie
The Phenom
2016 · Movie
Maudie
2016 · Movie
Maggie's Plan
2016 · Movie
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016 · Movie
Invasion!
2016 · Movie
Chattanooga Strong
2015 · Movie
Regression
2015 · Movie
Born to Be Blue
2015 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
10,000 Saints
2015 · Movie
Good Kill
2015 · Movie
Seymour: An Introduction
2015 · Movie
All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life
2015 · Movie
Twelve Years
2015 · Movie
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Series
21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014 · Movie
Cymbeline
2014 · Movie
Predestination
2014 · Movie
Boyhood
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014 · Series
Welcome Nowhere
2013 · Movie
Getaway
2013 · Movie
The Purge
2013 · Movie
Before Midnight
2013 · Movie
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012 · Movie
Sinister
2012 · Movie
Total Recall
2012 · Movie
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012 · Series
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012 · Movie
The Woman in the Fifth
2011 · Movie
Moby Dick
2011 · Series
Conan
2010 · Series
The Making of Daybreakers
2010 · Movie
Brooklyn's Finest
2010 · Movie
Daybreakers
2010 · Movie
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Series
Staten Island
2009 · Movie
What Doesn't Kill You
2008 · Movie
New York, I Love You
2008 · Movie
Chelsea on the Rocks
2008 · Movie
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
2008 · Movie
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007 · Movie
The Hottest State
2007 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007 · Movie
Fast Food Nation
2006 · Movie
Lord of War
2005 · Movie
One Last Thing...
2005 · Movie
Before Sunset: Behind the Scenes
2005 · Movie
Assault on Precinct 13
2005 · Movie
The Phoenix Portal
2005 · Movie
Before Sunset
2004 · Movie
Taking Lives
2004 · Movie
pollyDAYS
2003 · Movie
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Bo' Selecta!
2002 · Series
All the Love You Cannes!
2002 · Movie
The Jimmy Show
2002 · Movie
Tape
2001 · Movie
Waking Life
2001 · Movie
Training Day
2001 · Movie
Alias
2001 · Series
Chelsea Walls
2001 · Movie
Hamlet
2000 · Movie
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999 · Movie
The Velocity of Gary
1999 · Movie
Joe the King
1999 · Movie
The Newton Boys
1998 · Movie
Great Expectations
1998 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
Gattaca
1997 · Movie
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
Search and Destroy
1995 · Movie
Before Sunrise
1995 · Movie
At Sundance
1995 · Movie
Floundering
1994 · Movie
Quiz Show
1994 · Movie
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
1994 · Movie
Reality Bites
1994 · Movie
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
Straight to One
1993 · Movie
Alive
1993 · Movie
Rich in Love
1992 · Movie
Waterland
1992 · Movie
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
A Midnight Clear
1992 · Movie
Mystery Date
1991 · Movie
White Fang
1991 · Movie
Dad
1989 · Movie
Dead Poets Society
1989 · Movie
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
Lion's Den
1988 · Movie
Explorers
1985 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Tonight at Noon
Movie
The Last of the Tribe
Movie
Revolver
Movie
Camino Real
Movie
Hippies
Movie
Before Sunrise: Behind the Scenes
Movie
Untitled Agnes Denes Documentary
Movie
The Gunfighter
Movie