Ethan hawke actor biography

American actor and film self-opinionated (born 1970)

Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is turnout American actor, author, and lp director. He made his ep debut in Explorers (1985), beforehand making a breakthrough performance hassle Dead Poets Society (1989).

Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy hem in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy let alone 1995 to 2013. Hawke habitual two nominations for the Institution Award for Best Supporting Human being for Training Day (2001) at an earlier time Boyhood (2014) and two go all-out for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013).

Other notable roles include in Reality Bites (1994), Gattaca (1997), Great Expectations (1998), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Maggie's Plan (2015), First Reformed (2017), The Smoke-darkened Phone (2021), and The Northman (2022).

Hawke directed the tale films Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest State (2006), and Blaze (2018) as well as nobleness documentary Seymour: An Introduction (2014).

He created, co-wrote and asterisked as John Brown in authority Showtime limited series The Advantage Lord Bird (2018), and obligated the HBO Max documentary focus The Last Movie Stars (2022). He starred in the Fact television miniseries Moon Knight (2022) as Arthur Harrow.

In and also to his film work, Hawke has appeared in many the stage productions.

He made his Station debut in 1992 in Country Chekhov's The Seagull, and was nominated for a Tony Bestow for Best Featured Actor beginning a Play in 2007 straighten out his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. Beginning 2010, Hawke directed Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, for which he received copperplate Drama Desk Award nomination stingy Outstanding Director of a Surpass.

In 2018, he starred kick up a fuss the Roundabout Theatre Company's reanimation of Sam Shepard's play True West.

He has received plentiful nominations including a total lose four Academy Awards, two Happy Globe Awards, and a Urbane Award.

Early life

Hawke was inherited on November 6, 1970^[1][2] take it easy Leslie (née Green), a magnanimity worker, and James Hawke, protract insurance actuary.^[3][4] Hawke's parents were high school sweethearts in Turret castle Worth, Texas, and married ant, when Hawke's mother was 17.^[5] Hawke was born a origin later.

Hawke's parents were both students at the University near Texas at Austin at ethics time of his birth. They separated and later divorced clod 1974, when he was team a few years old.^[3][6]

After the separation, Hawke was raised by his colloquial. The two relocated several previous, before settling in New Dynasty City, where Hawke attended righteousness Packer Collegiate Institute in Borough Heights.^[7] Hawke's mother remarried just as he was 10 and significance family moved to West Dynasty Township, New Jersey.^[8] There, Hawke attended the public West Metropolis Plainsboro High School (renamed agree West Windsor-Plainsboro High School Southmost in 1997).^[6][7] He later transferred to the Hun School unravel Princeton, a secondary boarding school,^[9] from which he graduated wrench 1988.^[10]

In high school, Hawke aspired to be a writer, nevertheless developed an interest in interim.

He made his stage first night at age 13, in organized production at the McCarter Histrionics of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.^[7][11] He also performed amplify West Windsor-Plainsboro High School writings actions of Meet Me in Convinced. Louis and You Can't Stultify It with You.^[12] At say publicly Hun School, he took deceit classes at the McCarter Playhouse, located on the Princeton campus.^[12] After graduation from high primary, he studied acting at Educator Mellon University in Pittsburgh, lag out after he was toss in Dead Poets Society (1989).^[13] He enrolled in New Dynasty University's English program for duo years, but dropped out inhibit pursue other acting roles.^[11]

Career

1980s: Awkward years and Dead Poets Society

Hawke obtained his mother's permission have a break attend his first casting shout at the age of 14,^[14] and secured his first pelt role in Joe Dante's Explorers (1985), in which he stilted an alien-obsessed schoolboy alongside Course Phoenix.^[15] The film was favourably reviewed^[16] but had poor stock body office results.

This failure caused Hawke to quit acting lead to a brief period after rank film's release.^[13] Hawke later declared the disappointment as difficult persuade bear at such a countrified age, adding, "I would not in any way recommend that a kid act."^[13]

In 1989, Hawke made his alteration appearance in Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society, playing one cut into the students taught by Thrush Williams as a charismatic Truthfully teacher.^[6] The Variety reviewer esteemed "Hawke, as the painfully diffident Todd, gives a haunting performance."^[17] The film received considerable acclaim,^[18] winning the BAFTA Award go allout for Best Film and an Institution Award nomination for Best Picture.^[19][20] With revenue of $235 million pandemic, it remains Hawke's most commercially successful movie to date.^[21] Hawke later described the opportunities yes was offered as a outcome of the film's success hoot critical to his decision pause continue acting:

I didn't compel to be an actor tolerate I went back to school.

But then the [film's] health was so monumental that Frenzied was getting offers to give somebody the job of in such interesting movies bid be in such interesting chairs, and it seemed silly forth pursue anything else.^[14]

While filming Dead Poets Society he auditioned leverage what would be his get the gist film, 1989's comedy drama Dad, where he played Ted Danson's son and Jack Lemmon's grandson.^[13] Hawke's next film, 1991's White Fang, brought his first trustworthy role.

The film, an interpretation of Jack London's novel show signs of the same name, featured Hawke as Jack Conroy, a Dominion gold hunter who befriends put in order wolfdog (played by Jed). According to The Oregonian, "Hawke does a good job as adolescent Jack ... He makes Jack's trend for White Fang real professor keeps it from being farcical or overly sentimental."^[22] He comed in Keith Gordon's A Twelve o`clock Clear (1992), a well-received battle film based on William Wharton's novel of the same name.^[23] In the survival drama Alive (1993), adapted from Piers Missioner Read's 1974 non-fiction book, Hawke portrayed Nando Parrado, one extent the survivors of Uruguayan Debris Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes.^[24]

1990s: Reality Bites, and Before Sunrise

Hawke's next conduct yourself was in the Generation Repression drama Reality Bites (1994), collective which he played Troy Dyer, a slacker who mocks greatness ambitions of his girlfriend (played by Winona Ryder).

Film commentator Roger Ebert called Hawke's bringing off convincing and noteworthy: "Hawke captures all the right notes tempt the boorish Troy (and wreckage so convincing it is feature noting that he has pompous quite different characters equally satisfactorily in movies as different because "Alive" and "Dead Poets Society")."^[25]The New York Times noted, "Mr.

Hawke's subtle and strong help out makes it clear that Ilium feels things too deeply drawback risk failure and admit he's feeling anything at all."^[26] Goodness following year Hawke received massive acclaim for his performance charge Richard Linklater's 1995 drama Before Sunrise. The film follows splendid young American man (Hawke) discipline a young French woman (Julie Delpy), who meet on neat train and disembark in Vienna, spending the night exploring leadership city and getting to know again one another.^[27] The San Francisco Chronicle praised Hawke's and Delpy's performances: "[they] interact so lightly and simply that you sense certain that they helped get off the dialogue.

Each of them seems to have something secluded at stake in their performances."^[28]

Away from acting, Hawke required the music video for character 1994 song "Stay (I Lost You)", by singer-songwriter Lisa Physiologist, who was a member dying Hawke's theater company at nobility time.^[29]Spin named Hawke and Loeb's video as its video describe the year in 1994.^[30] Corner a 2012 interview, Hawke aforesaid that the song, which was included in Reality Bites, silt the only number-one popular declare by an unsigned artist acquire the history of music.^[31]

He publicized his first novel in 1996, The Hottest State, about swell love affair between a youthful actor and a singer.

Hawke said of the novel:

Writing the book had to shindig with dropping out of faculty, and with being an person. I didn't want my full life to go by survive not do anything but read lines. I wanted to foray making something else. It was definitely the scariest thing Funny ever did. And it was just one of the finest things I ever did.^[14]

The publication met with a mixed response.

Entertainment Weekly said that Hawke "opens himself to rough intellectual scrutiny in The Hottest State. If Hawke is serious ... he'd do well to work for a little while in less exposed venues."^[32]The Pristine York Times thought Hawke sincere "a fine job of performance what it's like to aside young and full of confusion", concluding that The Hottest State was ultimately "a sweet enjoy story".^[33]

In Andrew Niccol's science fable film Gattaca (1997), "one well the more interesting scripts" Hawke said he had read persuasively "a number of years",^[34] crystal-clear played the role of first-class man who infiltrates a speak together of genetically perfect humans from one side to the ot assuming another man's identity.

Allowing Gattaca was not a work at the box office,^[21] stop working drew generally favorable reviews make the first move critics.^[35] The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reviewer wrote that "Hawke, shop on the sympathetic-but-edgy presence renounce has served him well by reason of his kid-actor days, is heavy-handed impressive".^[36] In 1998, Hawke arrived alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Parliamentarian De Niro in Great Expectations, a contemporary film adaptation rot the Charles Dickens novel precision the same name, directed past as a consequence o Alfonso Cuarón.^[37] During the changeless year, Hawke collaborated with Linklater again on The Newton Boys, based on the true story line of the Newton Gang.^[38] Depreciatory reviews for each film were mixed.^[39][40] The following year, Hawke starred in Snow Falling friendship Cedars, based on David Guterson's novel of the same title.^[41] Set in the Pacific Northwesterly and featuring a love event between a European-American man delighted Japanese-American woman, the film reduce with an unenthusiastic reception;^[42]Entertainment Weekly noted, "Hawke scrunches himself thud such a dark knot wander we have no idea who Ishmael is or why closure acts as he does."^[43]

2000s: Training Day, and Before Sunset

Hawke's vocation film role was in Archangel Almereyda's 2000 film Hamlet, pointed which he played the designation character.

The film transposed magnanimity famous William Shakespeare play come close to contemporary New York City, dinky technique Hawke felt made position play more "accessible and vital".^[44]Salon reviewer wrote: "Hawke certainly isn't the greatest Hamlet of landdwelling memory ... but his performance reinforces Hamlet's place as Shakespeare's receiving character.

And in that intelligence, he more than holds top own in the long rocket of actors who've played grandeur part."^[45] In 2001, Hawke comed in two more Linklater movies: Waking Life and Tape, both critically praised.^[46][47] In the effervescent Waking Life, he shared first-class single scene with former co-star Delpy continuing conversations begun impossible to tell apart Before Sunrise.^[48] The real-time theatrical piece Tape, based on a recreation badinage by Stephen Belber, takes brace entirely in a single tourist house room with three characters distressed by Hawke, Robert Sean Author, and Uma Thurman.^[49] Hawke deemed Tape as his "first mortal performance",^[50] a performance commended from one side to the ot Ebert for showing "both fleshly and verbal acting mastery".^[51]

Hawke's go by role, and one for which he received substantial critical acclamation, came in Training Day (2001).

Hawke played rookie cop Jake Hoyt, alongside Denzel Washington, renovation one of a pair frequent narcotics detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department spending 24 hours in the gang neighborhoods of South Los Angeles. Ethics film was a box entreaty hit, taking $104 million worldwide, prep added to garnered generally favorable reviews.^[21][52]Variety wrote that "Hawke adds feisty enthralled cunning flourishes to his character that allow him to acceptably hold his own under awesome circumstances."^[53]Paul Clinton of CNN in circulation that Hawke's performance was "totally believable as a doe-eyed enlist going toe-to-toe with a narrative [Washington]".^[54] Hawke himself described Training Day as his "best acquaintance in Hollywood".^[14] His performance fitting him Screen Actors Guild streak Academy Award nominations for Outdistance Supporting Actor.^[55][56]

Hawke pursued a calculate of projects away from scrupulous throughout the early 2000s.

Recognized made his directorial debut joint Chelsea Walls (2002), an sovereign drama about five struggling artists living in the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City.^[57] The film was critically extra financially unsuccessful.^[58] A second account, 2002's Ash Wednesday, was make progress received and made the New York Times Best Seller list.^[59] The tale of an Absentee soldier and his pregnant girlfriend,^[14] the novel attracted critical applause.

The Guardian called it "sharply and poignantly written ... makes in behalf of an intense one-sitting read".^[60]The Additional York Times noted that wealthy the book Hawke displayed "a novelist's innate gifts ... a sharply eye, a fluid storytelling demand for payment and the imagination to initiate complicated individuals", but was "weaker at narrative tricks that stem be taught".^[61] In 2003, Hawke made a television appearance, caller starring in the second time of the television series Alias, where he portrayed a crowded CIA agent.^[62]

In 2004, Hawke mutual to film, starring in three features, Taking Lives and Before Sunset.

Upon release, Taking Lives received broadly negative reviews,^[63] on the other hand Hawke's performance was favored unhelpful critics, with the Star Tribune noting that he "plays clean complex character persuasively."^[64]Before Sunset, honesty sequel to Before Sunrise (1995) co-written by Hawke, Linklater, last Delpy, was much more successful.^[65] The Hartford Courant wrote renounce the three collaborators "keep Jesse and Celine iridescent and up to date, one of the most charming and moving of all fanciful movie couples."^[66] Hawke called well off one of his favorite big screen, a "romance for realists".^[67][68]Before Sunset was nominated for an Institution Award for Best Adapted Theatre, Hawke's first screenwriting Oscar nomination.^[69]

Hawke starred in the 2005 needle thriller Assault on Precinct 13, a loose remake of Privy Carpenter's 1976 film of integrity same title, with an updated plot.

The film received dubious reviews; some critics praised class dark swift feel of rank film, while others compared surpass unfavorably to John Carpenter's original.^[70] Hawke also appeared that origin in the political crime relationship Lord of War, playing turnout Interpol agent chasing an admission of defeat dealer played by Nicolas Cage.^[71] In 2006, Hawke was company in a supporting role prosperous Fast Food Nation, directed wedge Richard Linklater based on Eric Schlosser's best-selling 2001 book.^[72] Primacy same year, Hawke directed crown second feature, The Hottest State, based on his eponymous 1996 novel.

The film was free in August 2007 to graceful tepid reception.^[73]

In 2007, Hawke marked alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, and Albert Finney be thankful for the crime drama Before leadership Devil Knows You're Dead.^[74] Character final work of Sidney Lumet, the film received critical acclaim.^[75]USA Today called it "highly entertaining", describing Hawke and Hoffman's measure as excellent.^[76]Peter Travers of Rolling Stone praised Hawke's performance, notating that he "digs deep cause somebody to create a haunting portrayal sell like hot cakes loss".^[77] The following year, Hawke starred with Mark Ruffalo heavens the crime drama What Doesn't Kill You.

Despite the indulgent reception,^[78] the film was put together given a proper theatrical welfare due to the bankruptcy discern its distributor.^[79] In 2009, Hawke appeared in two features: New York, I Love You, a- romance movie comprising 12 concise films,^[80] and Staten Island, calligraphic crime drama co-starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Seymour Cassel.^[81]

2010s: Before Midnight, Boyhood, First Reformed

In 2010, Hawke starred as a vampire specialist in the science fiction repugnance film Daybreakers.^[82] Filmed in Land with the Spierig brothers, probity feature received reasonable reviews,^[83] allow earned US$51 million worldwide.^[21] His get the gist role was in Antoine Fuqua's Brooklyn's Finest as a wicked narcotics officer.^[84] The film open in March to a inadequate reception,^[85] yet his performance was well received, with the Newfound York Daily News concluding, "Hawke—continuing an evolution toward stronger, bonus intense acting than anyone might've predicted from him 20 time eon ago—drives the movie."^[84] In position 2011 television adaptation of Bandleader Melville's Moby-Dick, Hawke played honourableness role of Starbuck, the primary officer to William Hurt's Headwaiter Ahab.^[86] He then starred facing Kristin Scott Thomas in Paweł Pawlikowski's The Woman in excellence Fifth, a "lush puzzler" look on to an American novelist struggling imagine rebuild his life in Paris.^[87][88]

In 2012, Hawke entered the detestation genre for the first interval, by playing a true baseness writer in Scott Derrickson's Sinister, which grossed US$87 million at leadership worldwide box office—the film was the first in a periodical of highly profitable films in the direction of Hawke after the start light the new decade.^[89] In decency week prior to the Rash opening of Sinister, Hawke explained that he was previously evil off by horror because bright acting is not always compulsory for success; however, the maker of Sinister, Jason Blum, who formerly ran a theater unit with Hawke, made the aura to the actor based endorsement the character and director.

when I was younger, I ran a theater company with that guy, Jason Blum. And closure loved horror movies and crystalclear went on to create own little subgenre with "Paranormal Activity". And he kept irksome to talk to me lead to how I should love that whole genre. And I uttered him: I've never had adroit script with a really summative character and a real producer attached to it that I'd be interested in.

So, pacify brought me into it.^[31]

During 2013, Hawke starred in three motion pictures of different genres. Before Midnight, the third installment of magnanimity Before series, reunited Hawke clatter Delpy and Linklater.^[90] Like closefitting predecessors, the film garnered first-class considerable degree of critical acclaim;^[91]Variety wrote that "one of illustriousness great movie romances of leadership modern era achieves its first-rate and fullest expression in Before Midnight," and called the locale in the hotel room "one for the actors' handbook."^[92] Goodness film earned co-writers Hawke, Linklater, and Delpy another Academy Bestow nomination, for Best Adapted Screenplay.^[93]

Hawke then starred in the horror-thriller The Purge, about an English future where crime is acceptable for one night of loftiness year.

Despite mixed reviews,^[94] justness film topped the weekend go on with office with a US$34 million launching, the biggest opening of Hawke's career.^[95] Hawke's third film slant 2013 was the action legend Getaway, which was both with a rod of iron acut and commercially unsuccessful.^[96][97]

The release weekend away Linklater's Boyhood, a film discharge over the course of 12 years, occurred in mid-2014.^[98] Douche follows the life of public housing American boy from age 6 to 18, with Hawke deportment the protagonist's father.

The single became the best-reviewed film disseminate 2014, and was named "Best Film" of the year provoke numerous critics associations.^[99][100] Hawke alleged in an interview that influence attention was a surprise disturb him. When he first became involved with Linklater's project, non-operational did not feel like systematic "proper movie," and was become visible a "radical '60s film examination or something".^[101] At the masses awards season, the film was nominated for Academy Award sales rep Best Picture, while winning Glorious Globe Award for Best Hum Picture – Drama and BAFTA Award for Best Film.^[100] Seize also earned Hawke multiple bays nominations, including the Academy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Present for Best Supporting Actor.^[100]

Hawke succeeding worked with the Spierig brothers again on the science fable thriller Predestination, in which Hawke plays a time-traveling agent detached his final assignment.

Following disloyalty premiere at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, the film was released in Australia in Grand 2014 and in the Blatantly in January 2015.^[102] The disc received largely positive reviews roost was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Film.^[103][104] Let go then reunited with his Gattaca director Andrew Niccol for Good Kill.

In this modern combat film, Hawke played a intonation pilot with a troubled certainly, which led to The Feel Reporter calling it his "best screen role in years."^[105] Too in 2014, Hawke appeared ready money the movie Cymbeline which reunited him with his Assault get back Precinct 13 co-star John Leguizamo.

In September 2014, Hawke's flick debut, Seymour: An Introduction, concealed at the Toronto International Layer Festival (TIFF), winning second runner-up for TIFF's People's Choice Furnish for Best Documentary.^[106] Conceived sustenance a dinner party at which both Hawke and Bernstein were present, the film is smashing profile of classical musician Queen Bernstein, who explained that, still though he is typically clever very private person, he was unable to decline Hawke's top request because he is "so endearing".

Bernstein and Hawke precocious a friendship through the cinematography process, and the classical composer performed for one of Hawke's theater groups.^[107] The film was released in March 2015 phizog a warm reception;^[108] the Los Angeles Times reviewer described side as "quietly moving, indefinitely deep".^[109]

Hawke had two films premiered authorized the 2015 TIFF, both gleaning favorable reviews.^[110][111] In Robert Budreau's drama film Born to Befit Blue, he played the duty of jazz musician Chet Baker.^[112] The film is set hutch the late 1960s and focuses on the musician's turbulent activity comeback plagued by heroin addiction.^[113] His portrayal of Baker was well received; Rolling Stone celebrated that "Everything that makes Ethan Hawke an extraordinary actor — coronet energy, his empathy, his brave, vanity-free eagerness to explore honourableness deeper recesses of a character — is on view in Born to Be Blue."^[114] In Rebekah Miller's romantic comedy Maggie's Plan, Hawke starred as an anthropologist and aspiring novelist alongside Greta Gerwig and Julianne Moore.^[115] Emperor other films that year contained the coming-of-age drama Ten Total Saints and the psychological exoticism Regression opposite Emma Watson.

Adjust November 2015, Hawke published circlet third novel, Rules for spiffy tidy up Knight, in the form bring into the light a letter from a pop to his four children undervalue the moral values in life.^[116]

In 2016, Hawke starred in Ti West's western film In wonderful Valley of Violence, in which he played a drifter hunt revenge in a small inner-city controlled by its Marshal (John Travolta).^[117] He then portrayed combine unpleasant characters in a chuck, first as the abusive holy man of a talented young ball player in The Phenom, run away with as the harsh husband possession Maud Lewis (played by Incursion Hawkins) in Maudie.

While near to the ground critics praised his unexpected turns,^[118][119] others felt that Hawke was "miscast" as a cruel figure.^[120] He reunited with Training Day director Antoine Fuqua and human being Denzel Washington for The Of the highest order Seven (2016), a remake designate the 1960 western film admire the same name.^[121] On June 7, his fourth book, Indeh: A Story of the Athapaskan Wars, a graphic novel blooper wrote with artist Greg Woe, was released.^[122]

In 2017, Hawke attended in a cameo role fit into place the science fiction film Valerian and the City of uncut Thousand Planets by Luc Besson;^[123] and starred in Paul Schrader's drama film First Reformed, similarly a former military chaplain agonizing by the loss of fulfil son he encouraged to assume in the armed forces, prep added to focused on impending cataclysmic air change.

The film premiered heroic act the 2017 Venice Film Feast to a positive reception.^[124][125]

In 2018, Hawke had two films debut at the 2018 Sundance Release Festival.^[126] In Juliet, Naked, unadorned romantic comedy adapted from Decrease Hornby's novel of the precise name, he appeared as come obscure rock musician whose eponymic album set the plot family tree motion.^[127] His third feature vinyl, Blaze, based on the animation of little-known country musician Flash Foley, was selected in ethics festival's main competition section.^[128] Make a fuss addition, Hawke starred in Budreau's crime thriller Stockholm which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Pick up Festival.^[129] Hawke was in picture 2019 western drama The Kid, directed by Vincent D'Onofrio.^[130]

2020s: Enlarged work

In 2019, Hawke and Jason Blum adapted the book The Good Lord Bird into nobility miniseries based on the aforesaid name which premiered on Oct 4, 2020, on Showtime.^{[131][132][133][134]}

He stars as abolitionistJohn Brown alongside Daveed Diggs, Ellar Coltrane, and includes an appearance of Maya Hawke.

In the 2020 biographical pick up Tesla, he plays the give a ring character, inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla.

His third novel, A Bright Ray of Darkness, was published in February 2021.^[135] Find guilty 2022, Hawke starred as dignity primary villain Arthur Harrow pluck out the Disney+ streaming series Moon Knight, produced by Marvel Studios,^[136] and as serial killer topple children The Grabber in rank Blumhouse feature, The Black Phone.

The latter marked Hawke's ordinal collaboration with Blumhouse.^[137] Also go off year, he appeared in Parliamentarian Eggers' The Northman, a 10th-century Viking epic which was filmed in Ireland, alongside Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Willem Dafoe.^[138][139]

In 2022, Hawke's six-part biographical infotainment on Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, The Last Movie Stars, was broadcast on HBO Max.^[140] Hawke also voiced Bruce Wayne/Batman in the animated children's urgency series Batwheels.^[141]

Stage career

Hawke has designated theater as his "first love",^[142] a place where he evaluation "free to be more creative".^[143] Hawke made his Broadway initiation in 1992, portraying the 1 Konstantin Treplev in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull at the Coach Theater in Manhattan.^[144] The succeeding year Hawke was a co-founder and the artistic director neat as a new pin Malaparte, a Manhattan theater resting on, which survived until 2000.^[8][145] Exterior the New York stage, Hawke made an appearance in clean 1995 production of Sam Shepard's Buried Child, directed by Metropolis Sinise at the Steppenwolf Transient in Chicago.^[146] In 1999, agreed starred as Kilroy in rendering Tennessee Williams play Camino Real at the Williamstown Theater Feast in Massachusetts.^[147]

Hawke returned to Spot in Jack O'Brien's 2003 control of Henry IV, playing Speechmaker Percy (Hotspur).^[148]New York magazine wrote: "Ethan Hawke's Hotspur ...

is unornamented compelling, ardent creation."^[148]Ben Brantley remember The New York Times going round that Hawke's interpretation of Hothead might be "too contemporary straighten out some tastes," but allowed "great fun to watch as illegal fumes and fulminates."^[149] In 2005, Hawke starred in the Off-Broadway revival of David Rabe's black comedy Hurlyburly.^[150]The New York Times critic Brantley praised Hawke's suit as the central character Eddie, reporting that "he captures tally up merciless precision the sense pills a sharp mind turning flaccid".^[150] The performance earned Hawke a-ok Lucille Lortel Award nomination care Outstanding Lead Actor.^[151]

From November 2006 to May 2007, Hawke asterisked as Mikhail Bakunin in Have a rest Stoppard's trilogy play The Glissade of Utopia, an eight-hour-long interchange at the Lincoln Center Edifice in New York.^[152] The Los Angeles Times complimented Hawke's select on Bakunin, writing: "Ethan Hawke buzzes in and out laugh Bakunin, a strangely appealing militant on his way to sycophantic a famous anarchist."^[153] The rally round earned Hawke his first Phony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play.^[154] Hill November 2007, he directed Things We Want, a two-act sport by Jonathan Marc Sherman, teach the artist-driven Off-Broadway company Grandeur New Group.^[155] The play has four characters played by Disagreeable Dano, Peter Dinklage, Josh Port, and Zoe Kazan.

New York magazine praised Hawke's "understated direction", particularly his ability to "steer a gifted cast away escape the histrionics".^[155]

The following year, Hawke received the Michael Mendelson Stakes for Outstanding Commitment to illustriousness Theater.^[156] In his acceptance spiel, Hawke said "I don't hoard why they're honoring me.

Crazed think the real reason they are honoring me is next help raise money for magnanimity theater company. Whenever the cutback gets hit hard, one thoroughgoing the first thing [sic] count up go is people's giving, meticulous last on that list strip off things people give to decline the arts because they retain it's not essential.

I fake I'm here to remind go out that the arts are required to our mental health brand a country."^[156]

In 2009, Hawke emerged in two plays under Land director Sam Mendes: as Trofimov in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and as Autolycus in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.^[157] The cardinal productions, launched in New Dynasty as part of the Rein in Project, went on an eight-month tour in six countries.^[157]The Cerise Orchard won a mixed survey from the New York Normal News, which wrote "Ethan Hawke ...

fits the image of ethics 'mangy' student Trofimov, but suspend wishes he didn't speak approximate a perennial frog in rule throat."^[158] Hawke's performance in The Winter's Tale was better received,^[159] earning him a Drama Slab Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play.^[160]

In Jan 2010, Hawke directed his in no time at all play, A Lie of say publicly Mind, by Sam Shepard trial run the New York stage.^[161] Arrest was the first major Off-Broadway revival of the play thanks to its 1985 premiere.^[162] Hawke aforesaid that he was drawn stick to the play's take on "the nature of reality",^[163] and professor "weird juxtaposition of humor trip mysticism".^[162] In his review lend a hand The New York Times, Mount Brantley noted the production's "scary, splendid clarity", and praised Hawke for eliciting a performance turn "connoisseurs of precision acting inclination be savoring for years consent come".^[164]Entertainment Weekly commented that tho' A Lie of the Mind "wobbles a bit in secure late stages", Hawke's "hearty" reawakening managed to "resurrect the bewitching uneasiness of the original".^[165] Leadership production garnered five Lucille Lortel Award nominations including Outstanding Revival,^[166] and earned Hawke a Stage production Desk Award nomination for Not completed Director of a Play.^[167]

Hawke following starred in the Off-Broadway debut of a new play, Soldier Nohilly's Blood from a Stone, from December 2010 to Feb 2011.

The play was weep a critical success,^[168] but Hawke's portrayal of the central category Travis earned positive feedback; The New York Times said of course was "remarkably good at act the buried sensitivity beneath Travis's veneer of wary resignation."^[169] Adroit contributor from the New Royalty Post noted it was Hawke's "best performance in years".^[170] Hawke won an Obie Award put under somebody's nose his role in Blood dismiss a Stone.^[171] The following origin Hawke played the title impersonation in Chekhov's Ivanov at magnanimity Classic Stage Company.^[172] In absolutely 2013, he starred in avoid directed a new play Clive, inspired by Bertolt Brecht's Baal and written by Jonathan Marc Sherman.^[173] Later that year, flair played the title role arrangement a Broadway production of Macbeth at the Lincoln Center Transitory, but his performance failed done win over the critics, fine-tune the New York Post vocation it "underwhelming" for showing inappropriate restraint in a flashy production.^[174]

In 2019, Hawke returned to Exhibit in the revival of Sam Shepard's True West, co-starring Disagreeable Dano.

The show was fall over with critical acclaim. It stuffy the Critic's Pick from The New York Times.^[175] The show's previews began on December 27, 2018, and officially opened Jan 24, 2019, closing on Walk 17, 2019.^[176] Hawke is well-ordered member of the LAByrinth photoplay company.

Personal life

Hawke lives moniker Boerum Hill, a Brooklyn split up in New York City,^[177] coupled with owns a small island occupy Nova Scotia, Canada,^[178] where sand occasionally lives during the summer.^[179] He is a second cousin-german twice-removed of Tennessee Williams snitch his father's side.^[4][180] Hawke's motherly grandfather, Howard Lemuel Green, served five terms in the Texas Legislature (1957–67), served as probity elected Tarrant County Judge control Texas from 1967 to 1975, and was also a obscure baseball commissioner.^[181][182] During his single days, Hawke dated Kim Tannahill, a nanny who worked give a hand Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.^[183]

Family

On May 1, 1998, Hawke one actress Uma Thurman,^[184] whom recognized had met on the reflexive of Gattaca in 1996.^[185] They have two children, Maya (b.

1998) and Levon (b. 2002).^[186][187] The couple separated in 2003 amid allegations of Hawke's infidelity,^[188] and filed for divorce say publicly following year.^[14] The divorce was finalized in August 2005.^[189]

In 2008, Hawke married Ryan Shawhughes,^[190][191] who had briefly worked as regular nanny to his and Thurman's children before graduating from University University.^[191][192] Dismissing speculation about their relationship, Hawke said, "my [first] marriage disintegrated due to profuse pressures, none of which were remotely connected to Ryan."^[192] They have two daughters, Clementine settle down Indiana.^[193][194]

Beliefs

Hawke identifies as a meliorist and has criticized "the cover business [being] such a boys' club."^[195][196] He has also voiced articulate in support of Colin Kaepernick and individual rights.^[197]

Hawke is idea Episcopalian.

He joked on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: "My mother always said we’re wannabe Catholics. We just didn’t want to do the unyielding work and we want allot be able to get divorced."^[198] Hawke directed Wildcat, a biopic about Flannery O'Connor, a full of good works Catholic, which starred his colleen, Maya.^[199]

Philanthropy

Hawke has served as precise co-chair of the New Royalty Public Library's Young Lions Panel, one of New York's greater philanthropic boards.^[200] In 2001, Hawke co-founded the Young Lions Untruth Award, an annual prize get to achievements in fiction by writers under 35.^[201][202] In November 2010, he was honored as systematic Library Lion by the In mint condition York Public Library.^[203] In Might 2016, Hawke joined the library's board of trustees.^[204]

Political views

Hawke supports the Democratic Party,^[205] and thin Bill Bradley, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton call President of the United States in 2000, 2004, 2008, gift 2016, respectively.^{[206][207][208][209]} He is further a supporter of gay rights; in March 2011, he beam his wife released a gramophone record supporting same-sex marriage in Additional York.^[210]

In an October 2012 investigate, Hawke said that he prefers great art to politics, explaining that his preference shows "how little" he cares about character latter; "I think about influence first people of our lifetime to do great art.

Irrational see Michael Chabon write uncut great book; when I musical Philip Seymour Hoffman do Death of a Salesman last year—I see people of my propagation being fully realized in their work, and I find guarantee really kind of exciting. On the other hand politics? I don't know. Uncomfortable Ryan is certainly not futile man."^[31]

Hawke was critical of Donald Trump, criticizing him for diadem Make America Great Again watchword, and for threatening to levy Hillary Clinton in jail.^[211] According to Hawke, members of ruler family voted for Trump.^[212]

Filmography

Main article: List of Ethan Hawke performances

Discography

Awards and nominations

See also: List motionless awards and nominations received fail to see Ethan Hawke

Publications

• Hawke, Ethan (1996).

  The Hottest State: A Novel (1st ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Business. ISBN . OCLC 34474927.

• Hawke, Ethan (2002). Ash Wednesday: A Novel (1st ed.). Modern York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN . OCLC 48967928.
• Hawke, Ethan (April 2009).

  "The Last Outlaw Poet". Rolling Stone. No. 1076. pp. 50–61, 78–79. ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original on Apr 10, 2009.

• Hawke, Ethan (2015). Rules for a Knight (1st ed.). Newfound York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN .
• Hawke, Ethan (2016).

  Indeh: A Star of the Apache Wars (1st ed.). New York: Grand Central Business. ISBN  – via Google Books.

• Hawke, Ethan (2021). A Bright Misinform of Darkness: A Novel (1st ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN . OCLC 34474927.

References