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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Primarily2025 Black Phone 2 as The Grabber
2025 Batso and the Wall as Warren 'Batso' Harding
2025 Niềm Tin Lung Lay as Ethan Hawke
2025 She Dances
2025 The Weight
2025 Untitled The Gunfighter Remake Writer, Producer
2025 Revolver
2025 The Last of the Tribe as William Phelan
2025 Tonight at Noon as Lefty
2025 Camino Real Screenplay, Director
2025 Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart
2024 Wildcat Director, Writer, Producer
2023 Leave the World Behind as Clay Sandford
2023 Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short as Self
2023 Strange Way of Life as Jake
2022 Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb as Self
2022 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as Efficient Man
2022 Luna Moth (Performance Film) as Self
2022 Raymond & Ray as Ray
2022 Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone as Self
2022 The Black Phone as The Grabber
2022 Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight as Self - Arthur Harrow
2022 The Northman as King Aurvandil War-Raven
2022 Moon Knight as Arthur Harrow
2021 Zeros and Ones as JJ / Justin
2021 The Guilty as Sgt. Bill Miller (voice)
2021 Waiting for Godot as Vladimir
2020 Tesla as Nikola Tesla
2020 Cut Throat City as Jackson Symms
2020 Before the End as Self - Jesse
2019 Adopt a Highway as Russell Millings Producer
2019 The Truth as Hank
2019 Stockholm as Lars Nystrom
2019 The Kid as Sheriff Pat Garrett
2018 Let's Dance as Segment: "Table Manners"
2018 Blaze as Radio DJ Writer, Director, Producer
2018 Juliet, Naked as Tucker Crowe
2018 The King as Self
2018 First Reformed as Pastor Ernst Toller
2017 24 Hours to Live as Travis Conrad
2017 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets as Jolly the Pimp
2017 The Space in Between as Self
2017 After Before as Self
2016 In a Valley of Violence as Paul
2016 The Magnificent Seven as Goodnight Robicheaux
2016 Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny as Self
2016 The Phenom as Hopper Sr.
2016 Maudie as Everett Lewis
2016 Maggie's Plan as John Harding
2016 Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
2016 Invasion! as Voice of the Cosmos (voice)
2015 Chattanooga Strong as Narrator
2015 Regression as Bruce Kenner
2015 Born to Be Blue as Chet Baker
2015 10,000 Saints as Les Horn
2015 Good Kill as Commandant Tom Egan
2015 Seymour: An Introduction as Self Director
2015 All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life as Self
2015 Twelve Years as Self
2014 21 Years: Richard Linklater as Self - Actor
2014 Cymbeline as Iachimo
2014 Predestination as The Bartender
2014 Boyhood as Dad
2013 Making a Scene Writer
2013 Welcome Nowhere as Narrator
2013 Getaway as Brent Magna
2013 The Purge as James Sandin
2013 Before Midnight as Jesse Writer
2012 Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God as Pat (voice)
2012 Total Recall as Carl Hauser (director’s cut)
2012 Sinister as Ellison Oswalt
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011 The Woman in the Fifth as Tom Ricks
2010 The Making of Daybreakers as Self
2010 Brooklyn's Finest as Det. Sal Procida
2010 Daybreakers as Edward Dalton
2009 Staten Island as Sully
2008 What Doesn't Kill You as Paulie
2008 New York, I Love You as Writer
2008 Chelsea on the Rocks as Self
2008 Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made as Self
2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead as Hank Hanson
2007 The Hottest State as Vince Director, Writer
2007 The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation' as Self
2006 Fast Food Nation as Pete
2005 Lord of War as Jack Valentine
2005 One Last Thing... as Earl Jameison (uncredited)
2005 Assault on Precinct 13 as Sergeant Jake Roenick
2005 The Phoenix Portal as Ben Crandall (archive footage)
2004 Before Sunset as Jesse Screenplay
2004 Taking Lives as James Costa
2003 pollyDAYS as Self
2002 All the Love You Cannes! as Self
2002 The Jimmy Show as Ray
2001 Tape as Vin
2001 Waking Life as Jesse
2001 Training Day as Jake
2001 Chelsea Walls as Sam (voice) (uncredited) Director
2000 Hamlet as Hamlet
1999 Snow Falling on Cedars as Ishmael Chambers
1999 The Velocity of Gary as Nat
1999 Joe the King as Len Coles
1998 The Newton Boys as Jess Newton
1998 Great Expectations as Finnegan Bell
1997 Gattaca as Vincent Freeman
1995 Search and Destroy as Roger
1995 Before Sunrise as Jesse
1995 At Sundance as Self
1994 Floundering as Jimmy
1994 Quiz Show as Columbia Student (uncredited)
1994 White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf as Jack Conroy (uncredited)
1994 Reality Bites as Troy Dyer
1993 Straight to One Producer, Director, Writer
1993 Alive as Nando Parrado
1992 Rich in Love as Wayne Frobiness
1992 Waterland as Matthew Price
1992 A Midnight Clear as Will Knott
1991 Mystery Date as Tom McHugh
1991 White Fang as Jack Conroy
1989 Dad as Billy
1989 Dead Poets Society as Todd Anderson
1988 Lion's Den as Chris
1985 Explorers as Ben Crandall
7.67 Unknown 1
7.50 Animation 1
6.77 Documentary 19
6.74 Horror 5
6.63 Adventure 8
6.63 Family 3
6.59 Mystery 10
6.55 Fantasy 4
6.54 Science Fiction 8
6.47 History 6
6.37 Thriller 22
6.36 Drama 61
6.35 Crime 14
6.21 Western 4
6.20 Romance 18
6.19 Action 17
6.07 Music 6
5.76 War 3
5.68 Comedy 17