Ethan Hawke
Known for Acting · 158 credits
- Born
- 1970-11-06 (age 55)
- Place of birth
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- Ethan Green 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.
Known For
TV Shows (37)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self - Guest
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
Conan
2010
as Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self - Guest
The View
1997
as Self / Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self
Batwheels
2022
as Batman (voice)
Desus & Mero
2019
as Self - Illustrious Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Moon Knight
2022
as Arthur Harrow
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Purge
2018
as James Sandin
Explained
2018
as Narrator (voice)
Reservation Dogs
2021
as Rick Miller
Alias
2001
as James Lennox
The Lowdown
2025
as Lee Raybon
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
2018
as Self
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025
as Self
Bo' Selecta!
2002
as Self
The Good Lord Bird
2020
as John Brown
Moby Dick
2011
as Starbuck
Talking with Chris Hardwick
2017
as Self
The American Revolution
2025
as Anthony Wayne / John Andrews (voice)
My Generation
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Vietnam: The War That Changed America
2025
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012
as Self
Movies (121)
Dead Poets Society
1989
as Todd Anderson
The Northman
2022
as King Aurvandil War-Raven
Black Phone 2
2025
as The Grabber
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
as Efficient Man
Sinister
2012
as Ellison Oswalt
The Magnificent Seven
2016
as Goodnight Robicheaux
Predestination
2014
as The Bartender
The Black Phone
2022
as The Grabber
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
as Jolly the Pimp
The Purge
2013
as James Sandin
Before Sunrise
1995
as Jesse
Total Recall
2012
as Hauser (long version only)
Training Day
2001
as Jake
The Guilty
2021
as Sgt. Bill Miller (voice)
Gattaca
1997
as Vincent Freeman
Leave the World Behind
2023
as Clay Sandford
Before Midnight
2013
as Jesse
Blue Moon
2025
as Lorenz Hart
Boyhood
2014
as Dad
Lord of War
2005
as Jack Valentine
Daybreakers
2010
as Edward Dalton
Before Sunset
2004
as Jesse
Alive
1993
as Nando Parrado
24 Hours to Live
2017
as Travis Conrad
New York, I Love You
2008
as Writer
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
as Sergeant Jake Roenick
Taking Lives
2004
as James Costa
Great Expectations
1998
as Finnegan Bell
Explorers
1985
as Ben Crandall
Tesla
2020
as Nikola Tesla
In a Valley of Violence
2016
as Paul
First Reformed
2018
as Pastor Ernst Toller
Regression
2015
as Bruce Kenner
Welcome Nowhere
2013
as Narrator
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007
as Hank Hanson
Stockholm
2019
as Lars Nystrom
Brooklyn's Finest
2010
as Det. Sal Procida
Strange Way of Life
2023
as Jake
The Kid
2019
as Sheriff Pat Garrett
White Fang
1991
as Jack Conroy
Juliet, Naked
2018
as Tucker Crowe
Adopt a Highway
2019
as Russell Millings
Good Kill
2015
as Commandant Tom Egan
Waking Life
2001
as Jesse
Cut Throat City
2020
as Jackson Symms
All the Love You Cannes!
2002
as Self
Maudie
2016
as Everett Lewis
Tonight at Noon
as Lefty
Getaway
2013
as Brent Magna
Quiz Show
1994
as Don Quixote Student (uncredited)
The Weight
2026
as Samuel Murphy
Reality Bites
1994
as Troy Dyer
She Dances
2026
as Brian
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
Joe the King
1999
as Len Coles
Blaze
2018
as Radio DJ
Maggie's Plan
2016
as John Harding
Dad
1989
as Billy
10,000 Saints
2015
as Les Horn
Fast Food Nation
2006
as Pete
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
1994
as Jack Conroy (uncredited)
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
as Ishmael Chambers
Raymond & Ray
2022
as Ray
Cymbeline
2014
as Iachimo
What Doesn't Kill You
2008
as Paulie
Born to Be Blue
2015
as Chet Baker
A Midnight Clear
1992
as Will Knott
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
as Self - (archive footage)
Let's Dance
2018
as Segment: "Table Manners"
The Woman in the Fifth
2011
as Tom Ricks
The Last of the Tribe
as William Phelan
The Newton Boys
1998
as Jess Newton
The Velocity of Gary
1999
as Nat
Mystery Date
1991
as Tom McHugh
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
as Self
Valerian
2004
One Last Thing...
2005
as Earl Jameison (uncredited)
Chelsea on the Rocks
2008
as Self
21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014
as Self - Actor
Hamlet
2000
as Hamlet
The King
2018
as Self
Revolver
Search and Destroy
1995
as Roger
The Space in Between
2017
as Self
Staten Island
2009
as Sully
I, Object
2026
as (voice)
The Truth
2019
as Hank
Tape
2001
as Vin
The Jimmy Show
2002
as Ray
The Phoenix Portal
2005
as Ben Crandall (archive footage)
Chelsea Walls
2001
as Sam (voice) (uncredited)
Seymour: An Introduction
2015
as Self
The Hottest State
2007
as Vince
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
2022
as Self - Arthur Harrow
Zeros and Ones
2021
as JJ / Justin
Waterland
1992
as Matthew Price
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016
as Self
Floundering
1994
as Jimmy
Before Sunset: Behind the Scenes
2005
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
as Pat (voice)
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
2023
as Self
The Phenom
2016
as Hopper Sr.
Before the End
2020
as Self - Jesse
Rich in Love
1992
as Wayne Frobiness
Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
2022
as Self
At Sundance
1995
as Self
Chattanooga Strong
2015
as Narrator
Waiting for Godot
2021
as Vladimir
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007
as Self
Before Sunrise: Behind the Scenes
After Before
2017
as Self
The Making of Daybreakers
2010
as Self
Hippies
as Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twelve Years
2015
as Self
Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone
2022
as Self
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
2020
All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life
2015
as Self
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
2008
as Self
Invasion!
2016
as Voice of the Cosmos (voice)
Lion's Den
1988
as Chris
About 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 lat… With 158 credits spanning from 1953 to 2026, Ethan Hawke has appeared in 121 films and 37 TV shows.
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Most Popular Ethan Hawke Movies
- Dead Poets Society (1989) — as Todd Anderson
- The Northman (2022) — as King Aurvandil War-Raven
- Black Phone 2 (2025) — as The Grabber
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) — as Efficient Man
- Sinister (2012) — as Ellison Oswalt
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