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