
Ethan Hawke
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Biography
Ethan Green Hawke 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

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Graham Norton Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Oscars

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Real Time with Bill Maher

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Explained

The Daily Show

Reservation Dogs

Alias

Desus & Mero

The Purge

Batwheels

Talking with Chris Hardwick

Shakespeare Uncovered

Quiz Show

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

The Memory Police

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

New York, I Love You

Lord of War

Total Recall

The Northman

The Magnificent Seven

Brooklyn's Finest

The Truth

Dead Poets Society

The Last Movie Stars

Black Phone 2

Boyhood

Alive

White Fang

Leave the World Behind

Maudie

Training Day

Reality Bites

Moon Knight

The Black Phone

The Guilty

Raymond & Ray

First Reformed

Tesla

The Lowdown

The Good Lord Bird

The Woman in the Fifth

Getaway

Strange Way of Life

Assault on Precinct 13

Good Kill

The Purge

24 Hours to Live

Vietnam: The War That Changed America

Gattaca

Predestination

In a Valley of Violence

Regression

Before Midnight

Tape

Before Sunrise

Explorers

Zeros and Ones

Before Sunset

Waking Life

Blue Tilt

Sinister

Daybreakers
Production Credits
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