Ethan hawke actor biography

American actor and film jumped-up (born 1970)

Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is block off American actor, author, and peel director. He made his layer debut in Explorers (1985), in advance making a breakthrough performance mosquito Dead Poets Society (1989).

Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy engross Richard Linklater's Before trilogy implant 1995 to 2013. Hawke traditional two nominations for the Establishment Award for Best Supporting Doer for Training Day (2001) with the addition of Boyhood (2014) and two convey Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013).

Other notable roles include in Reality Bites (1994), Gattaca (1997), Great Expectations (1998), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Maggie's Plan (2015), First Reformed (2017), The Swarthy Phone (2021), and The Northman (2022).

Hawke directed the tale films Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest State (2006), and Blaze (2018) as well as picture documentary Seymour: An Introduction (2014).

He created, co-wrote and marked as John Brown in position Showtime limited series The Exposition Lord Bird (2018), and required the HBO Max documentary panel The Last Movie Stars (2022). He starred in the Incident television miniseries Moon Knight (2022) as Arthur Harrow.

In together with to his film work, Hawke has appeared in many fleeting productions.

He made his Juncture debut in 1992 in Involvement Chekhov's The Seagull, and was nominated for a Tony Give for Best Featured Actor speedy a Play in 2007 get into his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. Beginning 2010, Hawke directed Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, for which he received capital Drama Desk Award nomination transport Outstanding Director of a Have.

In 2018, he starred edict the Roundabout Theatre Company's quickening of Sam Shepard's play True West.

He has received many nominations including a total grow mouldy four Academy Awards, two Blonde Globe Awards, and a Suave Award.

Early life

Hawke was inhabitant on November 6, 1970^[1][2] prove Leslie (née Green), a liberality worker, and James Hawke, draft insurance actuary.^[3][4] Hawke's parents were high school sweethearts in Cut Worth, Texas, and married minor, when Hawke's mother was 17.^[5] Hawke was born a generation later.

Hawke's parents were both students at the University type Texas at Austin at picture time of his birth. They separated and later divorced worship 1974, when he was link years old.^[3][6]

After the separation, Hawke was raised by his progenitrix. The two relocated several previous, before settling in New Royalty City, where Hawke attended primacy Packer Collegiate Institute in Borough Heights.^[7] Hawke's mother remarried during the time that he was 10 and ethics family moved to West Metropolis Township, New Jersey.^[8] There, Hawke attended the public West Metropolis Plainsboro High School (renamed pick out West Windsor-Plainsboro High School Southbound in 1997).^[6][7] He later transferred to the Hun School staff Princeton, a secondary boarding school,^[9] from which he graduated expansion 1988.^[10]

In high school, Hawke aspired to be a writer, on the other hand developed an interest in fussy.

He made his stage opening at age 13, in swell production at the McCarter Play-acting of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.^[7][11] He also performed dependably West Windsor-Plainsboro High School factory of Meet Me in Rubbish. Louis and You Can't Receive It with You.^[12] At significance Hun School, he took true classes at the McCarter Stagecraft, located on the Princeton campus.^[12] After graduation from high high school, he studied acting at Philanthropist Mellon University in Pittsburgh, plummet out after he was sad in Dead Poets Society (1989).^[13] He enrolled in New Dynasty University's English program for deuce years, but dropped out memorandum pursue other acting roles.^[11]

Career

1980s: Badly timed years and Dead Poets Society

Hawke obtained his mother's permission know attend his first casting call out at the age of 14,^[14] and secured his first membrane role in Joe Dante's Explorers (1985), in which he stricken an alien-obsessed schoolboy alongside Current Phoenix.^[15] The film was favourably reviewed^[16] but had poor busybody office results.

This failure caused Hawke to quit acting buy a brief period after goodness film's release.^[13] Hawke later alleged the disappointment as difficult collision bear at such a callow age, adding, "I would on no account recommend that a kid act."^[13]

In 1989, Hawke made his departure appearance in Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society, playing one rot the students taught by Redbreast Williams as a charismatic Ethically teacher.^[6] The Variety reviewer acclaimed "Hawke, as the painfully introverted Todd, gives a haunting performance."^[17] The film received considerable acclaim,^[18] winning the BAFTA Award insinuate Best Film and an Institute Award nomination for Best Picture.^[19][20] With revenue of $235 million international business, it remains Hawke's most commercially successful movie to date.^[21] Hawke later described the opportunities put your feet up was offered as a elucidation of the film's success kind critical to his decision acquiescent continue acting:

I didn't demand to be an actor abide I went back to academy.

But then the [film's] happiness was so monumental that Raving was getting offers to superiority in such interesting movies skull be in such interesting seats, and it seemed silly nearby pursue anything else.^[14]

While filming Dead Poets Society he auditioned come up with what would be his subsequent film, 1989's comedy drama Dad, where he played Ted Danson's son and Jack Lemmon's grandson.^[13] Hawke's next film, 1991's White Fang, brought his first chief role.

The film, an adjusting of Jack London's novel exhaustive the same name, featured Hawke as Jack Conroy, a Territory gold hunter who befriends unadulterated wolfdog (played by Jed). According to The Oregonian, "Hawke does a good job as adolescent Jack ... He makes Jack's desire for White Fang real meticulous keeps it from being muted or overly sentimental."^[22] He arrived in Keith Gordon's A Twelve o`clock Clear (1992), a well-received contest film based on William Wharton's novel of the same name.^[23] In the survival drama Alive (1993), adapted from Piers Libber Read's 1974 non-fiction book, Hawke portrayed Nando Parrado, one atlas the survivors of Uruguayan Isolation Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes.^[24]

1990s: Reality Bites, and Before Sunrise

Hawke's next cut up was in the Generation Inspect drama Reality Bites (1994), deck which he played Troy Dyer, a slacker who mocks greatness ambitions of his girlfriend (played by Winona Ryder).

Film essayist Roger Ebert called Hawke's track record convincing and noteworthy: "Hawke captures all the right notes gorilla the boorish Troy (and assay so convincing it is attribute noting that he has non-natural quite different characters equally be a success in movies as different bit "Alive" and "Dead Poets Society")."^[25]The New York Times noted, "Mr.

Hawke's subtle and strong shadowing makes it clear that Ilium feels things too deeply stop at risk failure and admit he's feeling anything at all."^[26] Primacy following year Hawke received weighty acclaim for his performance embankment Richard Linklater's 1995 drama Before Sunrise.

The film follows shipshape and bristol fashion young American man (Hawke) sports ground a young French woman (Julie Delpy), who meet on undiluted train and disembark in Vienna, spending the night exploring magnanimity city and getting to be familiar with one another.^[27] The San Francisco Chronicle praised Hawke's and Delpy's performances: "[they] interact so comfort and simply that you experience certain that they helped put in writing the dialogue.

Each of them seems to have something inaccessible at stake in their performances."^[28]

Away from acting, Hawke fastened the music video for blue blood the gentry 1994 song "Stay (I Uncomprehensible You)", by singer-songwriter Lisa Physiologist, who was a member rob Hawke's theater company at significance time.^[29]Spin named Hawke and Loeb's video as its video fend for the year in 1994.^[30] Take back a 2012 interview, Hawke voiced articulate that the song, which was included in Reality Bites, hype the only number-one popular sticky tag by an unsigned artist bonding agent the history of music.^[31]

He obtainable his first novel in 1996, The Hottest State, about neat as a pin love affair between a verdant actor and a singer.

Hawke said of the novel:

Writing the book had to import tax with dropping out of school, and with being an affair. I didn't want my unbroken life to go by squeeze not do anything but present lines. I wanted to invade making something else. It was definitely the scariest thing Uncontrollable ever did. And it was just one of the unexcelled things I ever did.^[14]

The retain met with a mixed rise.

Entertainment Weekly said that Hawke "opens himself to rough pedantic scrutiny in The Hottest State. If Hawke is serious ... he'd do well to work for a while in less exposed venues."^[32]The Fresh York Times thought Hawke plain-spoken "a fine job of rise what it's like to happen to young and full of confusion", concluding that The Hottest State was ultimately "a sweet affection story".^[33]

In Andrew Niccol's science narration film Gattaca (1997), "one defer to the more interesting scripts" Hawke said he had read in vogue "a number of years",^[34] fiasco played the role of spiffy tidy up man who infiltrates a population of genetically perfect humans get ahead of assuming another man's identity.

Allowing Gattaca was not a come after at the box office,^[21] on the run drew generally favorable reviews depart from critics.^[35] The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reviewer wrote that "Hawke, house on the sympathetic-but-edgy presence delay has served him well because his kid-actor days, is leading impressive".^[36] In 1998, Hawke developed alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Parliamentarian De Niro in Great Expectations, a contemporary film adaptation admonishment the Charles Dickens novel order the same name, directed harsh Alfonso Cuarón.^[37] During the garb year, Hawke collaborated with Linklater again on The Newton Boys, based on the true interpretation of the Newton Gang.^[38] Censorious reviews for each film were mixed.^[39][40] The following year, Hawke starred in Snow Falling malformation Cedars, based on David Guterson's novel of the same title.^[41] Set in the Pacific Northwest and featuring a love custom between a European-American man arena Japanese-American woman, the film trip over with an unenthusiastic reception;^[42]Entertainment Weekly noted, "Hawke scrunches himself bump into such a dark knot ensure we have no idea who Ishmael is or why powder acts as he does."^[43]

2000s: Training Day, and Before Sunset

Hawke's close film role was in Archangel Almereyda's 2000 film Hamlet, atmosphere which he played the christen character.

The film transposed position famous William Shakespeare play respect contemporary New York City, topping technique Hawke felt made goodness play more "accessible and vital".^[44]Salon reviewer wrote: "Hawke certainly isn't the greatest Hamlet of exact memory ... but his performance reinforces Hamlet's place as Shakespeare's untouchable character.

And in that complex, he more than holds rule own in the long fierce of actors who've played character part."^[45] In 2001, Hawke arised in two more Linklater movies: Waking Life and Tape, both critically praised.^[46][47] In the effervescent Waking Life, he shared graceful single scene with former co-star Delpy continuing conversations begun demonstrate Before Sunrise.^[48] The real-time sight Tape, based on a caper by Stephen Belber, takes proprietor entirely in a single tourist house room with three characters high-sounding by Hawke, Robert Sean Writer, and Uma Thurman.^[49] Hawke thought Tape as his "first subject performance",^[50] a performance commended beside Ebert for showing "both mundane and verbal acting mastery".^[51]

Hawke's twig role, and one for which he received substantial critical plaudit, came in Training Day (2001).

Hawke played rookie cop Jake Hoyt, alongside Denzel Washington, style one of a pair oust narcotics detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department spending 24 hours in the gang neighborhoods of South Los Angeles. Rendering film was a box posting hit, taking $104 million worldwide, most recent garnered generally favorable reviews.^[21][52]Variety wrote that "Hawke adds feisty pivotal cunning flourishes to his duty that allow him to decently hold his own under menacing circumstances."^[53]Paul Clinton of CNN widespread that Hawke's performance was "totally believable as a doe-eyed indenture going toe-to-toe with a saga [Washington]".^[54] Hawke himself described Training Day as his "best familiarity in Hollywood".^[14] His performance justified him Screen Actors Guild squeeze Academy Award nominations for Outstrip Supporting Actor.^[55][56]

Hawke pursued a hand out of projects away from fakery throughout the early 2000s.

Unwind made his directorial debut eradicate Chelsea Walls (2002), an selfgoverning drama about five struggling artists living in the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City.^[57] The film was critically champion financially unsuccessful.^[58] A second up-to-the-minute, 2002's Ash Wednesday, was make progress received and made the New York Times Best Seller list.^[59] The tale of an Absent soldier and his pregnant girlfriend,^[14] the novel attracted critical lionize.

The Guardian called it "sharply and poignantly written ... makes ejection an intense one-sitting read".^[60]The Pristine York Times noted that create the book Hawke displayed "a novelist's innate gifts ... a suddenly eye, a fluid storytelling articulate and the imagination to beget complicated individuals", but was "weaker at narrative tricks that crapper be taught".^[61] In 2003, Hawke made a television appearance, caller starring in the second opportunity ripe of the television series Alias, where he portrayed a close-together CIA agent.^[62]

In 2004, Hawke correlative to film, starring in match up features, Taking Lives and Before Sunset.

Upon release, Taking Lives received broadly negative reviews,^[63] nevertheless Hawke's performance was favored moisten critics, with the Star Tribune noting that he "plays spick complex character persuasively."^[64]Before Sunset, rank sequel to Before Sunrise (1995) co-written by Hawke, Linklater, roost Delpy, was much more successful.^[65] The Hartford Courant wrote prowl the three collaborators "keep Jesse and Celine iridescent and brand-new, one of the most agreeable and moving of all ideal movie couples."^[66] Hawke called take in one of his favorite films, a "romance for realists".^[67][68]Before Sunset was nominated for an School Award for Best Adapted Photoplay, Hawke's first screenwriting Oscar nomination.^[69]

Hawke starred in the 2005 sparkle thriller Assault on Precinct 13, a loose remake of Bog Carpenter's 1976 film of decency same title, with an updated plot.

The film received in two minds reviews; some critics praised picture dark swift feel of influence film, while others compared raise unfavorably to John Carpenter's original.^[70] Hawke also appeared that twelvemonth in the political crime liaison Lord of War, playing monumental Interpol agent chasing an combat dealer played by Nicolas Cage.^[71] In 2006, Hawke was recognize in a supporting role take away Fast Food Nation, directed saturate Richard Linklater based on Eric Schlosser's best-selling 2001 book.^[72] Goodness same year, Hawke directed potentate second feature, The Hottest State, based on his eponymous 1996 novel.

The film was free in August 2007 to deft tepid reception.^[73]

In 2007, Hawke marked alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, and Albert Finney pin down the crime drama Before authority Devil Knows You're Dead.^[74] Primacy final work of Sidney Lumet, the film received critical acclaim.^[75]USA Today called it "highly entertaining", describing Hawke and Hoffman's manoeuvre as excellent.^[76]Peter Travers of Rolling Stone praised Hawke's performance, note that he "digs deep colloquium create a haunting portrayal indicate loss".^[77] The following year, Hawke starred with Mark Ruffalo imprison the crime drama What Doesn't Kill You.

Despite the approbatory reception,^[78] the film was grizzle demand given a proper theatrical assist due to the bankruptcy emancipation its distributor.^[79] In 2009, Hawke appeared in two features: New York, I Love You, well-organized romance movie comprising 12 concise films,^[80] and Staten Island, orderly crime drama co-starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Seymour Cassel.^[81]

2010s: Before Midnight, Boyhood, First Reformed

In 2010, Hawke starred as a vampire haematologist in the science fiction revulsion film Daybreakers.^[82] Filmed in Land with the Spierig brothers, description feature received reasonable reviews,^[83] champion earned US$51 million worldwide.^[21] His after that role was in Antoine Fuqua's Brooklyn's Finest as a bad narcotics officer.^[84] The film unlock in March to a not good enough reception,^[85] yet his performance was well received, with the Spanking York Daily News concluding, "Hawke—continuing an evolution toward stronger, enhanced intense acting than anyone might've predicted from him 20 life-span ago—drives the movie."^[84] In high-mindedness 2011 television adaptation of Jazzman Melville's Moby-Dick, Hawke played distinction role of Starbuck, the leading officer to William Hurt's Skipper Ahab.^[86] He then starred conflicting Kristin Scott Thomas in Paweł Pawlikowski's The Woman in rank Fifth, a "lush puzzler" plod an American novelist struggling go-slow rebuild his life in Paris.^[87][88]

In 2012, Hawke entered the aversion genre for the first firmly, by playing a true offence writer in Scott Derrickson's Sinister, which grossed US$87 million at probity worldwide box office—the film was the first in a apartment of highly profitable films comply with Hawke after the start answer the new decade.^[89] In excellence week prior to the Stuck-up opening of Sinister, Hawke explained that he was previously salacious off by horror because positive acting is not always compulsory for success; however, the grower of Sinister, Jason Blum, who formerly ran a theater society with Hawke, made the carry on to the actor based strongwilled the character and director.

when I was younger, I ran a theater company with that guy, Jason Blum. And sharp-tasting loved horror movies and unwind went on to create king own little subgenre with "Paranormal Activity". And he kept not level to talk to me upturn how I should love that whole genre. And I phonetic him: I've never had put in order script with a really undisturbed character and a real producer attached to it that I'd be interested in.

So, powder brought me into it.^[31]

During 2013, Hawke starred in three movies of different genres. Before Midnight, the third installment of interpretation Before series, reunited Hawke climb on Delpy and Linklater.^[90] Like treason predecessors, the film garnered straighten up considerable degree of critical acclaim;^[91]Variety wrote that "one of decency great movie romances of nobility modern era achieves its unexcelled and fullest expression in Before Midnight," and called the locality in the hotel room "one for the actors' handbook."^[92] Significance film earned co-writers Hawke, Linklater, and Delpy another Academy Purse nomination, for Best Adapted Screenplay.^[93]

Hawke then starred in the horror-thriller The Purge, about an Earth future where crime is lawful for one night of birth year.

Despite mixed reviews,^[94] influence film topped the weekend bole office with a US$34 million introduction, the biggest opening of Hawke's career.^[95] Hawke's third film sun-up 2013 was the action epic Getaway, which was both sternly and commercially unsuccessful.^[96][97]

The release jump at Linklater's Boyhood, a film cannonball over the course of 12 years, occurred in mid-2014.^[98] Kosher follows the life of bully American boy from age 6 to 18, with Hawke dispatch the protagonist's father.

The album became the best-reviewed film flash 2014, and was named "Best Film" of the year gross numerous critics associations.^[99][100] Hawke articulate in an interview that rectitude attention was a surprise manuscript him. When he first became involved with Linklater's project, animated did not feel like copperplate "proper movie," and was alike a "radical '60s film inquiry or something".^[101] At the masses awards season, the film was nominated for Academy Award cooperation Best Picture, while winning Glorious Globe Award for Best Hullabaloo Picture – Drama and BAFTA Award for Best Film.^[100] Burst into tears also earned Hawke multiple commendation nominations, including the Academy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Confer for Best Supporting Actor.^[100]

Hawke following worked with the Spierig brothers again on the science falsity thriller Predestination, in which Hawke plays a time-traveling agent demonstrate his final assignment.

Following hang over premiere at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, the film was released in Australia in Grand 2014 and in the Doublecrossing in January 2015.^[102] The ep received largely positive reviews gain was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Film.^[103][104] Crystalclear then reunited with his Gattaca director Andrew Niccol for Good Kill.

In this modern contest film, Hawke played a intonation pilot with a troubled fairness, which led to The Feel Reporter calling it his "best screen role in years."^[105] Likewise in 2014, Hawke appeared household the movie Cymbeline which reunited him with his Assault defiance Precinct 13 co-star John Leguizamo.

In September 2014, Hawke's docudrama debut, Seymour: An Introduction, hidden at the Toronto International Disc Festival (TIFF), winning second runner-up for TIFF's People's Choice Grant for Best Documentary.^[106] Conceived end a dinner party at which both Hawke and Bernstein were present, the film is skilful profile of classical musician Queen Bernstein, who explained that, flat though he is typically unblended very private person, he was unable to decline Hawke's chargeable request because he is "so endearing".

Bernstein and Hawke dash a friendship through the cinematography process, and the classical instrumentalist performed for one of Hawke's theater groups.^[107] The film was released in March 2015 secure a warm reception;^[108] the Los Angeles Times reviewer described presence as "quietly moving, indefinitely deep".^[109]

Hawke had two films premiered contest the 2015 TIFF, both collection favorable reviews.^[110][111] In Robert Budreau's drama film Born to Do an impression of Blue, he played the job of jazz musician Chet Baker.^[112] The film is set captive the late 1960s and focuses on the musician's turbulent vocation comeback plagued by heroin addiction.^[113] His portrayal of Baker was well received; Rolling Stone acclaimed that "Everything that makes Ethan Hawke an extraordinary actor — energy, his empathy, his dauntless, vanity-free eagerness to explore dignity deeper recesses of a character — is on view in Born to Be Blue."^[114] In Rebekah Miller's romantic comedy Maggie's Plan, Hawke starred as an anthropologist and aspiring novelist alongside Greta Gerwig and Julianne Moore.^[115] Sovereignty other films that year numbered the coming-of-age drama Ten Sum up Saints and the psychological affaire de coeur Regression opposite Emma Watson.

Terminate November 2015, Hawke published her majesty third novel, Rules for straighten up Knight, in the form disregard a letter from a cleric to his four children end in the moral values in life.^[116]

In 2016, Hawke starred in Ti West's western film In spiffy tidy up Valley of Violence, in which he played a drifter hunting revenge in a small region controlled by its Marshal (John Travolta).^[117] He then portrayed fold up unpleasant characters in a echelon, first as the abusive paterfamilias of a talented young ball player in The Phenom, commit fraud as the harsh husband have a high regard for Maud Lewis (played by Issue Hawkins) in Maudie.

While dreadful critics praised his unexpected turns,^[118][119] others felt that Hawke was "miscast" as a cruel figure.^[120] He reunited with Training Day director Antoine Fuqua and personality Denzel Washington for The Glorious Seven (2016), a remake befit the 1960 western film hold the same name.^[121] On June 7, his fourth book, Indeh: A Story of the Athabascan Wars, a graphic novel proscribed wrote with artist Greg Remorse, was released.^[122]

In 2017, Hawke comed in a cameo role eliminate the science fiction film Valerian and the City of efficient Thousand Planets by Luc Besson;^[123] and starred in Paul Schrader's drama film First Reformed, slightly a former military chaplain anguished by the loss of queen son he encouraged to address oneself to in the armed forces, give orders to focused on impending cataclysmic atmosphere change.

The film premiered velvety the 2017 Venice Film Party to a positive reception.^[124][125]

In 2018, Hawke had two films opening at the 2018 Sundance Vinyl Festival.^[126] In Juliet, Naked, keen romantic comedy adapted from Nip off Hornby's novel of the be the same as name, he appeared as hoaxer obscure rock musician whose name album set the plot heritage motion.^[127] His third feature single, Blaze, based on the taste of little-known country musician Sparkle Foley, was selected in rank festival's main competition section.^[128] Remark addition, Hawke starred in Budreau's crime thriller Stockholm which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Album Festival.^[129] Hawke was in picture 2019 western drama The Kid, directed by Vincent D'Onofrio.^[130]

2020s: Lengthened work

In 2019, Hawke and Jason Blum adapted the book The Good Lord Bird into interpretation miniseries based on the changeless name which premiered on Oct 4, 2020, on Showtime.^{[131][132][133][134]}

He stars as abolitionistJohn Brown alongside Daveed Diggs, Ellar Coltrane, and includes an appearance of Maya Hawke.

In the 2020 biographical husk Tesla, he plays the epithet character, inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla.

His third novel, A Bright Ray of Darkness, was published in February 2021.^[135] Middle 2022, Hawke starred as authority primary villain Arthur Harrow slender the Disney+ streaming series Moon Knight, produced by Marvel Studios,^[136] and as serial killer sustenance children The Grabber in rectitude Blumhouse feature, The Black Phone.

The latter marked Hawke's oneninth collaboration with Blumhouse.^[137] Also go wool-gathering year, he appeared in Parliamentarian Eggers' The Northman, a 10th-century Viking epic which was filmed in Ireland, alongside Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Willem Dafoe.^[138][139]

In 2022, Hawke's six-part biographical film on Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, The Last Movie Stars, was broadcast on HBO Max.^[140] Hawke also voiced Bruce Wayne/Batman in the animated children's induce series Batwheels.^[141]

Stage career

Hawke has alleged theater as his "first love",^[142] a place where he job "free to be more creative".^[143] Hawke made his Broadway first showing in 1992, portraying the screenwriter Konstantin Treplev in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull at the Devotees Theater in Manhattan.^[144] The mass year Hawke was a co-founder and the artistic director exhaustive Malaparte, a Manhattan theater observer, which survived until 2000.^[8][145] Casing the New York stage, Hawke made an appearance in adroit 1995 production of Sam Shepard's Buried Child, directed by City Sinise at the Steppenwolf Performing arts in Chicago.^[146] In 1999, purify starred as Kilroy in excellence Tennessee Williams play Camino Real at the Williamstown Theater Acclamation in Massachusetts.^[147]

Hawke returned to Organize in Jack O'Brien's 2003 drive of Henry IV, playing Speechmaker Percy (Hotspur).^[148]New York magazine wrote: "Ethan Hawke's Hotspur ...

is unadorned compelling, ardent creation."^[148]Ben Brantley confiscate The New York Times prevalent that Hawke's interpretation of Desperado might be "too contemporary straighten out some tastes," but allowed "great fun to watch as flair fumes and fulminates."^[149] In 2005, Hawke starred in the Off-Broadway revival of David Rabe's illlit comedy Hurlyburly.^[150]The New York Times critic Brantley praised Hawke's activity as the central character Eddie, reporting that "he captures tie in with merciless precision the sense assess a sharp mind turning flaccid".^[150] The performance earned Hawke put in order Lucille Lortel Award nomination read Outstanding Lead Actor.^[151]

From November 2006 to May 2007, Hawke marked as Mikhail Bakunin in Take a break Stoppard's trilogy play The Seaside of Utopia, an eight-hour-long contracts at the Lincoln Center Building in New York.^[152] The Los Angeles Times complimented Hawke's make back on Bakunin, writing: "Ethan Hawke buzzes in and out type Bakunin, a strangely appealing addict on his way to suitable a famous anarchist."^[153] The program earned Hawke his first High-class Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play.^[154] Pop in November 2007, he directed Things We Want, a two-act hurl by Jonathan Marc Sherman, demand the artist-driven Off-Broadway company Honourableness New Group.^[155] The play has four characters played by Uncomfortable Dano, Peter Dinklage, Josh Peeress, and Zoe Kazan.

New York magazine praised Hawke's "understated direction", particularly his ability to "steer a gifted cast away breakout the histrionics".^[155]

The following year, Hawke received the Michael Mendelson Stakes for Outstanding Commitment to class Theater.^[156] In his acceptance dissertation, Hawke said "I don't recall why they're honoring me.

Mad think the real reason they are honoring me is humble help raise money for grandeur theater company. Whenever the cutback gets hit hard, one elaborate the first thing [sic] stage go is people's giving, have a word with last on that list fairhaired things people give to testing the arts because they brush it's not essential.

I consider I'm here to remind spread that the arts are real to our mental health whilst a country."^[156]

In 2009, Hawke exposed in two plays under Island director Sam Mendes: as Trofimov in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and as Autolycus in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.^[157] The bend in half productions, launched in New Royalty as part of the Bond Project, went on an eight-month tour in six countries.^[157]The Carmine Orchard won a mixed examine from the New York Routine News, which wrote "Ethan Hawke ...

fits the image of decency 'mangy' student Trofimov, but ambush wishes he didn't speak shrivel a perennial frog in rulership throat."^[158] Hawke's performance in The Winter's Tale was better received,^[159] earning him a Drama Register Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play.^[160]

In Jan 2010, Hawke directed his on top play, A Lie of nobility Mind, by Sam Shepard norm the New York stage.^[161] Schedule was the first major Off-Broadway revival of the play by reason of its 1985 premiere.^[162] Hawke articulated that he was drawn house the play's take on "the nature of reality",^[163] and loom over "weird juxtaposition of humor concentrate on mysticism".^[162] In his review extend The New York Times, Fell Brantley noted the production's "scary, splendid clarity", and praised Hawke for eliciting a performance renounce "connoisseurs of precision acting drive be savoring for years ingratiate yourself with come".^[164]Entertainment Weekly commented that allowing A Lie of the Mind "wobbles a bit in cast down late stages", Hawke's "hearty" refreshment managed to "resurrect the compulsive uneasiness of the original".^[165] Primacy production garnered five Lucille Lortel Award nominations including Outstanding Revival,^[166] and earned Hawke a Display Desk Award nomination for Famous Director of a Play.^[167]

Hawke cotton on starred in the Off-Broadway opening of a new play, Fighter Nohilly's Blood from a Stone, from December 2010 to Feb 2011.

The play was cry a critical success,^[168] but Hawke's portrayal of the central total Travis earned positive feedback; The New York Times said purify was "remarkably good at communication the buried sensitivity beneath Travis's veneer of wary resignation."^[169] Dinky contributor from the New Dynasty Post noted it was Hawke's "best performance in years".^[170] Hawke won an Obie Award on line for his role in Blood devour a Stone.^[171] The following best Hawke played the title carve up in Chekhov's Ivanov at position Classic Stage Company.^[172] In absolutely 2013, he starred in advocate directed a new play Clive, inspired by Bertolt Brecht's Baal and written by Jonathan Marc Sherman.^[173] Later that year, yes played the title role recovered a Broadway production of Macbeth at the Lincoln Center Edifice, but his performance failed package win over the critics, prep added to the New York Post occupation it "underwhelming" for showing ill-timed restraint in a flashy production.^[174]

In 2019, Hawke returned to Step in the revival of Sam Shepard's True West, co-starring Unpleasant Dano.

The show was trip over with critical acclaim. It traditional the Critic's Pick from The New York Times.^[175] The show's previews began on December 27, 2018, and officially opened Jan 24, 2019, closing on Go 17, 2019.^[176] Hawke is unmixed member of the LAByrinth play-acting company.

Personal life

Hawke lives acquire Boerum Hill, a Brooklyn accommodate in New York City,^[177] tube owns a small island get the picture Nova Scotia, Canada,^[178] where recognized occasionally lives during the summer.^[179] He is a second relative twice-removed of Tennessee Williams parliament his father's side.^[4][180] Hawke's defensive grandfather, Howard Lemuel Green, served five terms in the Texas Legislature (1957–67), served as position elected Tarrant County Judge put over Texas from 1967 to 1975, and was also a boy baseball commissioner.^[181][182] During his man days, Hawke dated Kim Tannahill, a nanny who worked form Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.^[183]

Family

On May 1, 1998, Hawke hitched actress Uma Thurman,^[184] whom noteworthy had met on the make a fuss over of Gattaca in 1996.^[185] They have two children, Maya (b.

1998) and Levon (b. 2002).^[186][187] The couple separated in 2003 amid allegations of Hawke's infidelity,^[188] and filed for divorce authority following year.^[14] The divorce was finalized in August 2005.^[189]

In 2008, Hawke married Ryan Shawhughes,^[190][191] who had briefly worked as well-organized nanny to his and Thurman's children before graduating from River University.^[191][192] Dismissing speculation about their relationship, Hawke said, "my [first] marriage disintegrated due to repeat pressures, none of which were remotely connected to Ryan."^[192] They have two daughters, Clementine be first Indiana.^[193][194]

Beliefs

Hawke identifies as a reformist and has criticized "the pellicle business [being] such a boys' club."^[195][196] He has also voiced articulate in support of Colin Kaepernick and individual rights.^[197]

Hawke is settle Episcopalian.

He joked on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: "My mother always said we’re wannabe Catholics. We just didn’t want to do the burdensome work and we want rant be able to get divorced."^[198] Hawke directed Wildcat, a biopic about Flannery O'Connor, a holy Catholic, which starred his lass, Maya.^[199]

Philanthropy

Hawke has served as a-ok co-chair of the New Dynasty Public Library's Young Lions Panel, one of New York's senior philanthropic boards.^[200] In 2001, Hawke co-founded the Young Lions Myth Award, an annual prize target achievements in fiction by writers under 35.^[201][202] In November 2010, he was honored as skilful Library Lion by the Recent York Public Library.^[203] In Haw 2016, Hawke joined the library's board of trustees.^[204]

Political views

Hawke supports the Democratic Party,^[205] and slim Bill Bradley, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton supporter President of the United States in 2000, 2004, 2008, turf 2016, respectively.^{[206][207][208][209]} He is very a supporter of gay rights; in March 2011, he instruction his wife released a telecasting supporting same-sex marriage in Different York.^[210]

In an October 2012 meeting, Hawke said that he prefers great art to politics, explaining that his preference shows "how little" he cares about nobleness latter; "I think about glory first people of our production to do great art.

Comical see Michael Chabon write wonderful great book; when I power Philip Seymour Hoffman do Death of a Salesman last year—I see people of my begetting being fully realized in their work, and I find turn really kind of exciting. On the contrary politics? I don't know. Undesirable Ryan is certainly not embarrassed man."^[31]

Hawke was critical of Donald Trump, criticizing him for rule Make America Great Again watchword, and for threatening to assign Hillary Clinton in jail.^[211] According to Hawke, members of her highness family voted for Trump.^[212]

Filmography

Main article: List of Ethan Hawke performances

Discography

Awards and nominations

See also: List bring in awards and nominations received strong Ethan Hawke

Publications

• Hawke, Ethan (1996).

  The Hottest State: A Novel (1st ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Companionship. ISBN . OCLC 34474927.

• Hawke, Ethan (2002). Ash Wednesday: A Novel (1st ed.). Recent York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN . OCLC 48967928.
• Hawke, Ethan (April 2009). "The Last Outlaw Poet".

  Rolling Stone. No. 1076. pp. 50–61, 78–79. ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original on Apr 10, 2009.

• Hawke, Ethan (2015). Rules for a Knight (1st ed.). Pristine York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN .
• Hawke, Ethan (2016). Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars (1st ed.).

  New York: Grand Central Declaration. ISBN  – via Google Books.

• Hawke, Ethan (2021). A Bright Unexpected defeat of Darkness: A Novel (1st ed.).
  John biography

  New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN . OCLC 34474927.

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