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Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, author and film director. He made his film debut in Explorers (1985), before making a breakthrough performance in Dead Poets Society (1989). Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy from 1995 to 2013.
Ethan Hawke. Actor: Training Day. Ethan Green Hawke was born on November 6, 1970 in Austin, Texas, to Leslie Carole (Green), a charity worker, and James Steven Hawke, an insurance actuary. His parents were students at the University of Texas at the time but divorced when Ethan was 5 years old.
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Learn about the life and career of Ethan Hawke, an American actor, writer and director. Find out his birth date, family, spouses, children, awards, roles and trivia.
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- 'Dead Poet's Society' Hawke's appearance in a Princeton University theater production led to an audition for his feature debut, the teen adventure flop Explorers (1985), with fellow fledgling actor River Phoenix.
- 'Dad,' 'Mystery Date' Hawke moved to New York City and worked steadily in films from then on, next appearing in the teary film Dad (1989), playing Ted Danson's son and Jack Lemmon's grandson.
- 'Reality Bites,' 'Before Sunrise' His role as the scruffy, philosophical slacker who pines for Winona Ryder in Reality Bites (1994), directed by Ben Stiller and also featuring Janeane Garofalo and Steven Zahn, made Hawke a heartthrob for Generation X. He expanded his moody romantic-lead portfolio in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995), co-starring Julie Delpy.
- 'Gattaca' A newly buff Hawke reappeared on the big screen in the 1997 sci-fi thriller Gattaca, in which he infiltrates a society of genetically perfect humans by assuming another man's identity.
May 9, 2024 · Ethan Hawke and Maya Hawke star in a biopic about Flannery O'Connor, a writer who struggled with lupus and faith. The father-daughter duo also talks about their Beatles obsession, working with Taylor Swift and Richard Linklater.
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May 2, 2024 · The father-daughter duo talks about their biopic Wildcat, based on the life of writer Flannery O'Connor, and their family dynamics. They also share stories about Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift and their childhood memories.
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May 21, 2024 · Such is the case with co-writer and director Ethan Hawke's "Wildcat," starring his daughter Maya Hawke as writer Flannery O'Connor, whose sardonic Southern Gothic humor elevated the ordinary lives of the characters in her stories to otherworldly and grotesque heights.
