Nook NotesPick a film
Ethan Hawke

Actor

Ethan Hawke

Born November 6, 1970 in Austin, Texas, USA93 films

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).

Read more

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.

Start here

The best way into Ethan Hawke's work
Dead Poets Society posterFirst watchDead Poets Society19898.3as Todd AndersonAt an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Before Sunrise poster8.0Before Sunrise1995Gattaca poster7.6Gattaca1997Training Day poster7.5Training Day2001Predestination poster7.4Predestination2014The Black Phone poster7.5The Black Phone2022Boyhood poster7.5Boyhood2014Before Sunset poster7.8Before Sunset2004Lord of War poster7.3Lord of War2005

Filmography

93 films as actor
  1. TBATonight at NoonLefty
  2. TBAThe Last of the TribeWilliam Phelan
  3. TBARevolver
  4. TBAHippiesRalph Waldo Emerson
  5. 2026Deep in the Heart II: Texas Rivers
  6. 2026The WeightSamuel Murphy
  7. 2026I, ObjectLittle Ben (voice)
  8. 2026She DancesBrian
  9. 2025Blue MoonLorenz Hart
  10. 2025Black Phone 2Grabber
  11. 2023Leave the World BehindClay Sandford
  12. 2023Strange Way of LifeJake
  13. 2022Glass Onion: A Knives Out MysteryEfficient Man
  14. 2022Raymond & RayRay
  15. 2022The Black PhoneThe Grabber
  16. 2022The NorthmanKing Aurvandil War-Raven
  17. 2021Zeros and OnesJJ / Justin
  18. 2021The GuiltySgt. Bill Miller (voice)
  19. 2021Waiting for GodotVladimir
  20. 2020TeslaNikola Tesla
  21. 2020Cut Throat CityJackson Symms
  22. 2019Adopt a HighwayRussell Millings
  23. 2019The TruthHank
  24. 2019StockholmLars Nystrom
  25. 2019The KidSheriff Pat Garrett
  26. 2018Let's DanceSegment: "Table Manners"
  27. 2018BlazeRadio DJ
  28. 2018Juliet, NakedTucker Crowe
  29. 2018First ReformedPastor Ernst Toller
  30. 201724 Hours to LiveTravis Conrad
  31. 2017Valerian and the City of a Thousand PlanetsJolly the Pimp
  32. 2016In a Valley of ViolencePaul
  33. 2016The Magnificent SevenGoodnight Robicheaux
  34. 2016The PhenomHopper Sr.
  35. 2016MaudieEverett Lewis
  36. 2016Maggie's PlanJohn Harding
  37. 2016Invasion!Voice of the Cosmos (voice)
  38. 2015RegressionBruce Kenner
  39. 2015Born to Be BlueChet Baker
  40. 201510,000 SaintsLes Horn
  41. 2015Good KillCommandant Tom Egan
  42. 2014CymbelineIachimo
  43. 2014PredestinationThe Bartender
  44. 2014BoyhoodDad
  45. 2014In the Dark
  46. 2013GetawayBrent Magna
  47. 2013The PurgeJames Sandin
  48. 2013Before MidnightJesse
  49. 2012SinisterEllison Oswalt
  50. 2012Total RecallHauser (long version only)
  51. 2011The Woman in the FifthTom Ricks
  52. 2010Brooklyn's FinestDet. Sal Procida
  53. 2010DaybreakersEdward Dalton
  54. 2009Staten IslandSully
  55. 2008What Doesn't Kill YouPaulie
  56. 2008New York, I Love YouWriter
  57. 2007Before the Devil Knows You're DeadHank Hanson
  58. 2007The Hottest StateVince
  59. 2006Fast Food NationPete
  60. 2005Lord of WarJack Valentine
  61. 2005One Last Thing...Earl Jameison (uncredited)
  62. 2005Before Sunset: Behind the Scenes
  63. 2005Assault on Precinct 13Sergeant Jake Roenick
  64. 2004Before SunsetJesse
  65. 2004Taking LivesJames Costa
  66. 2002The Jimmy ShowRay
  67. 2001TapeVin
  68. 2001Waking LifeJesse
  69. 2001Training DayJake
  70. 2001Chelsea WallsSam (voice) (uncredited)
  71. 2000HamletHamlet
  72. 1999Snow Falling on CedarsIshmael Chambers
  73. 1999The Velocity of GaryNat
  74. 1999Joe the KingLen Coles
  75. 1998The Newton BoysJess Newton
  76. 1998Great ExpectationsFinnegan Bell
  77. 1997GattacaVincent Freeman
  78. 1995Search and DestroyRoger
  79. 1995Before SunriseJesse
  80. 1994FlounderingJimmy
  81. 1994Quiz ShowDon Quixote Student (uncredited)
  82. 1994White Fang 2: Myth of the White WolfJack Conroy (uncredited)
  83. 1994Reality BitesTroy Dyer
  84. 1993AliveNando Parrado
  85. 1992Rich in LoveWayne Frobiness
  86. 1992WaterlandMatthew Price
  87. 1992A Midnight ClearWill Knott
  88. 1991Mystery DateTom McHugh
  89. 1991White FangJack Conroy
  90. 1989DadBilly
  91. 1989Dead Poets SocietyTodd Anderson
  92. 1988Lion's DenChris
  93. 1985ExplorersBen Crandall