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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. Producer. Writer. IMDbPro Starmeter Top 500 83. Play clip 1:34. Ethan Hawke | Career Retrospective. 99+ Videos. 99+ Photos. 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.
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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.
- November 6, 1970
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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.
2 days ago · Ethan Hawke is an American actor, director, and novelist who often portrays cerebral sensitive men. His best-known movies are Dead Poets Society (1989), Reality Bites (1994), Before Sunrise (1995), Training Day (2001), and Boyhood (2014).
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2 days ago · It’s their first film together, with Ethan in the director’s chair and Maya, also the daughter of actress Uma Thurman, in the starring role. “We had a lot of different ideas about stuff we ...
4 days ago · Ethan Hawke was nominated at the 2002 Oscars for best supporting actor for his performance in Antoine Fuqua’s crime thriller “Training Day.” He lost the prize to Jim Broadbent (“Iris ...
