Ethan Hawke
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.
158 acting credits · 9 directing credits
Acting · 158
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Conan
2010
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Great Performances
1971
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Dead Poets Society
1989
Moon Knight
2022
The Oscars
1953
Black Phone 2
2025
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Batwheels
2022
Explained
2018
The Purge
2018
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
Before Sunrise
1995
The Black Phone
2022
The Northman
2022
Predestination
2014
Reservation Dogs
2021
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
Sinister
2012
Alias
2001
Gattaca
1997
Leave the World Behind
2023
Training Day
2001
The American Revolution
2025
The Magnificent Seven
2016
Desus & Mero
2019
The Purge
2013
Lord of War
2005
Total Recall
2012
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
2018
Bo' Selecta!
2002
The Lowdown
2025
Blue Moon
2025
Alive
1993
New York, I Love You
2008
The Good Lord Bird
2020
Before Sunset
2004
Daybreakers
2010
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007
Great Expectations
1998
Before Midnight
2013
The Guilty
2021
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025
Talking with Chris Hardwick
2017
Taking Lives
2004
Boyhood
2014
Explorers
1985
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
My Generation
2024
Reality Bites
1994
Vietnam: The War That Changed America
2025
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Quiz Show
1994
Juliet, Naked
2018
First Reformed
2018
Moby Dick
2011
Brooklyn's Finest
2010
Regression
2015
White Fang
1991
Maudie
2016
Cut Throat City
2020
Waking Life
2001
24 Hours to Live
2017
Raymond & Ray
2022
The Weight
2026
She Dances
2026
In a Valley of Violence
2016
Tesla
2020
Adopt a Highway
2019
Good Kill
2015
Dad
1989
Strange Way of Life
2023
Joe the King
1999
Tape
2001
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
1994
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
2022
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
The Truth
2019
Blaze
2018
The Kid
2019
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016
Getaway
2013
21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014
Maggie's Plan
2016
Stockholm
2019
What Doesn't Kill You
2008
Cymbeline
2014
Fast Food Nation
2006
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
A Midnight Clear
1992
Hamlet
2000
Waterland
1992
The Hottest State
2007
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012
Zeros and Ones
2021
10,000 Saints
2015
Floundering
1994
The Newton Boys
1998
Mystery Date
1991
Chelsea Walls
2001
Born to Be Blue
2015
Let's Dance
2018
One Last Thing...
2005
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
2023
Search and Destroy
1995
The Phenom
2016
The King
2018
At Sundance
1995
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
The Making of Daybreakers
2010
Staten Island
2009
Tonight at Noon
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The Velocity of Gary
1999
Rich in Love
1992
The Woman in the Fifth
2011
Chelsea on the Rocks
2008
All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life
2015
Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
2022
All the Love You Cannes!
2002
Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone
2022
The Jimmy Show
2002
Revolver
—
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
The Last of the Tribe
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Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
2008
Waiting for Godot
2021
Hippies
—
Lion's Den
1988
Luna Moth (Performance Film)
2022
The Phoenix Portal
2005
Seymour: An Introduction
2015
Hollywood Cream
2026
pollyDAYS
2003
Invasion!
2016
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
2020
After Before
2017
Before the End
2020
Chattanooga Strong
2015
Twelve Years
2015
Welcome Nowhere
2013
The Space in Between
2017
Before Sunrise: Behind the Scenes
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Before Sunset: Behind the Scenes
2005
