1970-11-06 Austin, Texas, USA
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.
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The Weight | Samuel Murphy | 2026-09-16 |
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I, Object | (voice) | 2026-07-23 |
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She Dances | Brian | 2026-03-27 |
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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies | Self - (archive footage) | 2025-11-21 |
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Blue Moon | Lorenz Hart | 2025-10-17 |
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Black Phone 2 | The Grabber | 2025-10-15 |
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Leave the World Behind | Clay Sandford | 2023-11-22 |
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Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short | Self | 2023-06-11 |
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Extraña forma de vida | Jake | 2023-05-26 |
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Luna Moth (Performance Film) | Self | 2022-11-07 |
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Efficient Man | 2022-11-23 |
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Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone | Self | 2022-10-03 |
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Raymond & Ray | Ray | 2022-10-14 |
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight | Self - Arthur Harrow | 2022-05-24 |
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The Black Phone | The Grabber | 2022-06-16 |
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The Northman | King Aurvandil War-Raven | 2022-04-07 |
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Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb | Self | 2022-12-30 |
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Zeros and Ones | JJ / Justin | 2021-11-18 |
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The Guilty | Sgt. Bill Miller (voice) | 2021-09-24 |
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Waiting for Godot | Vladimir | 2021-05-06 |
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Paul Schrader: Man in a Room | 2020-01-26 | |
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Cut Throat City | Jackson Symms | 2020-07-31 |
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Tesla | Nikola Tesla | 2020-08-14 |
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Before the End | Self - Jesse | 2020-05-24 |
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Stockholm | Lars Nystrom | 2019-04-12 |
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The Kid | Sheriff Pat Garrett | 2019-03-08 |
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La Vérité | Hank | 2019-10-10 |
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Adopt a Highway | Russell Millings | 2019-11-01 |
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Blaze | Radio DJ | 2018-08-17 |
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Let's Dance | Segment: "Table Manners" | 2018-12-06 |
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The King | Self | 2018-06-22 |
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Juliet, Naked | Tucker Crowe | 2018-08-16 |
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First Reformed | Pastor Ernst Toller | 2018-05-18 |
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After Before | Self | 2017-02-28 |
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | Jolly the Pimp | 2017-07-19 |
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The Space in Between | Self | 2017-02-28 |
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24 Hours To Live | Travis Conrad | 2017-10-26 |
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Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny | Self | 2016-08-05 |
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Invasion! | Voice of the Cosmos (voice) | 2016-04-01 |
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The Phenom | Hopper Sr. | 2016-06-24 |
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In a Valley of Violence | Paul | 2016-10-21 |
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Maudie | Everett Lewis | 2016-06-16 |
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The Magnificent Seven | Goodnight Robicheaux | 2016-09-14 |
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Starring Austin Pendleton | Self | 2016-04-01 |
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Maggie's Plan | John Harding | 2016-04-27 |
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Regression | Bruce Kenner | 2015-10-01 |
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Chattanooga Strong | Narrator | 2015-11-13 |
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All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life | Self | 2015-02-10 |
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Seymour: An Introduction | Self | 2015-03-13 |
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Born to Be Blue | Chet Baker | 2015-09-13 |
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10,000 Saints | Les Horn | 2015-08-14 |
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Good Kill | Commandant Tom Egan | 2015-04-09 |
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Twelve Years | Self | 2015-01-06 |
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Boyhood | Dad | 2014-06-05 |
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21 Years: Richard Linklater | Self - Actor | 2014-11-07 |
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Cymbeline | Iachimo | 2014-09-03 |
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Predestination | The Bartender | 2014-08-28 |
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Getaway | Brent Magna | 2013-08-29 |
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Before Midnight | Jesse | 2013-04-05 |
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The Purge | James Sandin | 2013-05-31 |
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Welcome Nowhere | Narrator | 2013-09-28 |
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Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
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Total Recall | Hauser (long version only) | 2012-08-02 |
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Sinister | Ellison Oswalt | 2012-03-29 |
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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | Pat (voice) | 2012-11-16 |
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La femme du Vème | Tom Ricks | 2011-09-11 |
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The Making of Daybreakers | Self | 2010-05-11 |
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Brooklyn's Finest | Det. Sal Procida | 2010-03-04 |
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Daybreakers | Edward Dalton | 2010-01-06 |
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Staten Island | Sully | 2009-02-07 |
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Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made | Self | 2008-04-15 |
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New York, I Love You | Writer | 2008-09-06 |
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What Doesn't Kill You | Paulie | 2008-12-12 |
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Chelsea on the Rocks | Self | 2008-05-23 |
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Hank Hanson | 2007-09-26 |
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The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation' | Self | 2007-02-07 |
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The Hottest State | Vince | 2007-06-27 |
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Fast Food Nation | Pete | 2006-11-17 |
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The Phoenix Portal | Ben Crandall (archive footage) | 2005-01-01 |
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Assault on Precinct 13 | Sergeant Jake Roenick | 2005-01-19 |
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Before Sunset: Behind the Scenes | 2005-02-07 | |
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Lord of War | Jack Valentine | 2005-09-16 |
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One Last Thing... | Earl Jameison (uncredited) | 2005-09-12 |
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Taking Lives | James Costa | 2004-03-19 |
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Before Sunset | Jesse | 2004-06-16 |
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pollyDAYS | Self | 2003-08-14 |
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The Jimmy Show | Ray | 2002-01-16 |
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All the Love You Cannes! | Self | 2002-05-16 |
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Tape | Vin | 2001-11-02 |
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Waking Life | Jesse | 2001-10-19 |
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Chelsea Walls | Sam (voice) (uncredited) | 2001-09-21 |
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Training Day | Jake | 2001-10-05 |
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Hamlet | Hamlet | 2000-05-12 |
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Joe the King | Len Coles | 1999-01-22 |
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Snow Falling on Cedars | Ishmael Chambers | 1999-12-22 |
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The Velocity of Gary | Nat | 1999-07-16 |
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The Newton Boys | Jess Newton | 1998-03-26 |
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Great Expectations | Finnegan Bell | 1998-01-30 |
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Gattaca | Vincent Freeman | 1997-07-09 |
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Search and Destroy | Roger | 1995-04-23 |
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At Sundance | Self | 1995-01-01 |
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Before Sunrise | Jesse | 1995-01-27 |
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White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf | Jack Conroy (uncredited) | 1994-04-15 |
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Floundering | Jimmy | 1994-11-04 |
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Reality Bites | Troy Dyer | 1994-02-18 |
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Quiz Show | Don Quixote Student (uncredited) | 1994-08-25 |
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Alive | Nando Parrado | 1993-01-15 |
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Waterland | Matthew Price | 1992-08-21 |
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A Midnight Clear | Will Knott | 1992-04-24 |
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Rich in Love | Wayne Frobiness | 1992-09-04 |
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White Fang | Jack Conroy | 1991-01-18 |
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Mystery Date | Tom McHugh | 1991-08-16 |
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Dead Poets Society | Todd Anderson | 1989-06-02 |
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Dad | Billy | 1989-10-27 |
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Lion's Den | Chris | 1988-01-01 |
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Explorers | Ben Crandall | 1985-07-12 |
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The Last of the Tribe | William Phelan | |
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Tonight at Noon | Lefty | |
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Revolver | ||
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Hippies | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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Before Sunrise: Behind the Scenes |