Acting
Ethan Hawke
EN, ES, FR, XX cinema · 131 credits
Born
6 November 1970 (age 55)
Birthplace
Austin, Texas, USA
Also known as Ethan Green 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.
Known for
Filmography
The Last of the Tribe
The Last of the Tribe
as William Phelan, Producer
Revolver
Actor
Hippies
Hippies
as Ralph Waldo Emerson
Camino Real
Camino Real
Director, Screenplay
The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter
Writer, Producer
The Weight
as Samuel Murphy
She Dances
as Brian
I, Object
as Little Ben (voice)
Each Day in a Moment: 2025
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Black Phone 2
as Grabber
Blue Moon
as Lorenz Hart
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self (archive footage)
King Hamlet
Executive Producer
Wildcat
Director, Writer, Producer
Leave the World Behind
as Clay Sandford
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
as Self - Arthur Harrow
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
as Efficient Man
The Northman
as King Aurvandil War-Raven
The Black Phone
as The Grabber
Zeros and Ones
as JJ / Justin
The Guilty
as Sgt. Bill Miller (voice)
Waiting for Godot
as Vladimir
Before the End
as Self - Jesse
Tesla
as Nikola Tesla
Cut Throat City
as Jackson Symms
Stockholm
as Lars Nystrom
The Kid
as Sheriff Pat Garrett
The Truth
as Hank
Adopt a Highway
as Russell Millings, Producer
Juliet, Naked
as Tucker Crowe
First Reformed
as Pastor Ernst Toller
Blaze
as Radio DJ, Director, Writer, Producer
Let's Dance
as Segment: "Table Manners"
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Jolly the Pimp
24 Hours to Live
as Travis Conrad
After Before
as Self
Invasion!
as Voice of the Cosmos (voice)
Maggie's Plan
as John Harding
The Magnificent Seven
as Goodnight Robicheaux
Maudie
as Everett Lewis
The Phenom
as Hopper Sr.
10,000 Saints
as Les Horn
Good Kill
as Commandant Tom Egan
Regression
as Bruce Kenner
Born to Be Blue
as Chet Baker
Seymour: An Introduction
as Self, Director
Chattanooga Strong
as Narrator
Twelve Years
as Self
Boyhood
as Dad
Predestination
as The Bartender
Cymbeline
as Iachimo
21 Years: Richard Linklater
as Self - Actor
Getaway
as Brent Magna
Before Midnight
as Jesse, Writer
The Purge
as James Sandin
Welcome Nowhere
as Narrator
Sinister
as Ellison Oswalt
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Total Recall
as Hauser (long version only)
The Woman in the Fifth
as Tom Ricks
Brooklyn's Finest
as Det. Sal Procida
Daybreakers
as Edward Dalton
Staten Island
as Sully
What Doesn't Kill You
as Paulie
New York, I Love You
as Writer
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
as Hank Hanson
The Hottest State
as Vince, Director, Writer
Fast Food Nation
as Pete
The Phoenix Portal
as Ben Crandall (archive footage)
Lord of War
as Jack Valentine
Assault on Precinct 13
as Sergeant Jake Roenick
One Last Thing...
as Earl Jameison (uncredited)
Before Sunset
as Jesse, Screenplay
Taking Lives
as James Costa
pollyDAYS
as Self
Training Day
as Jake
Tape
as Vin
Waking Life
as Jesse
Chelsea Walls
as Sam (voice) (uncredited), Director
Hamlet
as Hamlet
Snow Falling on Cedars
as Ishmael Chambers
Joe the King
as Len Coles
Great Expectations
as Finnegan Bell
The Newton Boys
as Jess Newton
Gattaca
as Vincent Freeman
Before Sunrise
as Jesse
Search and Destroy
as Roger
At Sundance
as Self
Reality Bites
as Troy Dyer
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
as Jack Conroy (uncredited)
Floundering
as Jimmy
Quiz Show
as Don Quixote Student (uncredited)
Alive
as Nando Parrado
Straight to One
Producer, Director, Writer
A Midnight Clear
as Will Knott
Waterland
as Matthew Price
Rich in Love
as Wayne Frobiness
White Fang
as Jack Conroy
Mystery Date
as Tom McHugh
Dead Poets Society
as Todd Anderson
Dad
as Billy
Lion's Den
as Chris
Explorers
as Ben Crandall