
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

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Graham Norton Show

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

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

Talking with Chris Hardwick

The Last Movie Stars

Shakespeare Uncovered

Quiz Show

The Oscars

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight

The Memory Police

Batwheels

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Lord of War

New York, I Love You

Total Recall

The Northman

Alive

Boyhood

The Magnificent Seven

Dead Poets Society

Brooklyn's Finest

The Truth

Black Phone 2

White Fang

Maudie

The Black Phone

Training Day

Raymond & Ray

Moon Knight

Reality Bites

The Guilty

Leave the World Behind

The Purge

Before Midnight

In a Valley of Violence

Vietnam: The War That Changed America

The Lowdown

Daybreakers

Zeros and Ones

Assault on Precinct 13

Sinister

The Woman in the Fifth

Tape

The Good Lord Bird

Predestination

Waking Life

Getaway

Explorers

Blue Tilt

Regression

First Reformed

Good Kill

Before Sunset

Tesla

Before Sunrise

Gattaca

24 Hours to Live

Strange Way of Life
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