Ethan Hawke
Known for: Acting
Born: November 6, 1970
Place of birth: Austin, Texas, USA
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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Filmography
127 movies · 38 TV shows, newest first
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The Weight
2026
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I, Object
2026
3.4
She Dances
2026
5.5
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025
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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
5.9
The American Revolution
2025
6.6
Blue Moon
2025
6.6
Black Phone 2
2025
6.8
The Lowdown
2025
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Highway 99: A Double Album
2025
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King Hamlet
2025
8.4
Vietnam: The War That Changed America
2025
1.0
My Generation
2024
5.6
Wildcat
2024
6.4
Leave the World Behind
2023
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Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
2023
6.3
Strange Way of Life
2023
7.1
Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
2022
7.0
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
7.0
Batwheels
2022
6.2
Raymond & Ray
2022
6.3
Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone
2022
7.0
The Last Movie Stars
2022
7.5
The Black Phone
2022
6.8
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
2022
7.0
The Northman
2022
7.6
Moon Knight
2022
4.7
Zeros and Ones
2021
6.4
The Guilty
2021
7.9
Reservation Dogs
2021
3.0
Waiting for Godot
2021
6.7
The Good Lord Bird
2020
5.7
Tesla
2020
6.4
Cut Throat City
2020
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Before the End
2020
6.0
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
2020
6.7
Adopt a Highway
2019
6.0
The Truth
2019
6.3
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
5.9
Stockholm
2019
6.0
The Kid
2019
5.1
Desus & Mero
2019
6.1
Let's Dance
2018
6.9
The Purge
2018
6.3
Blaze
2018
6.3
Juliet, Naked
2018
6.3
The King
2018
7.5
Explained
2018
7.0
First Reformed
2018
7.5
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
2018
6.0
24 Hours to Live
2017
6.7
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
8.0
Talking with Chris Hardwick
2017
8.0
The Space in Between
2017
7.0
After Before
2017
6.1
In a Valley of Violence
2016
6.5
The Magnificent Seven
2016
6.8
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016
5.4
The Phenom
2016
7.8
Maudie
2016
5.7
Maggie's Plan
2016
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Invasion!
2016
6.7
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
7.0
Chattanooga Strong
2015
5.6
Regression
2015
6.5
Born to Be Blue
2015
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.0
10,000 Saints
2015
5.9
Good Kill
2015
7.2
Seymour: An Introduction
2015
7.0
All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life
2015
6.0
Twelve Years
2015
4.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
6.3
21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014
3.9
Cymbeline
2014
7.4
Predestination
2014
7.5
Boyhood
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
5.0
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
9.0
Welcome Nowhere
2013
5.0
Getaway
2013
6.2
The Purge
2013
7.5
Before Midnight
2013
7.3
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
6.9
Sinister
2012
6.0
Total Recall
2012
7.3
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012
7.5
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
5.2
The Woman in the Fifth
2011
5.7
Moby Dick
2011
7.2
Conan
2010
7.0
The Making of Daybreakers
2010
6.3
Brooklyn's Finest
2010
6.3
Daybreakers
2010
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
6.0
Staten Island
2009
6.0
What Doesn't Kill You
2008
6.0
New York, I Love You
2008
5.7
Chelsea on the Rocks
2008
5.3
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
2008
7.1
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007
5.5
The Hottest State
2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007
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The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007
6.1
Fast Food Nation
2006
7.3
Lord of War
2005
6.0
One Last Thing...
2005
10.0
Before Sunset: Behind the Scenes
2005
6.2
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
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The Phoenix Portal
2005
7.8
Before Sunset
2004
6.4
Taking Lives
2004
8.0
pollyDAYS
2003
6.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
7.1
Bo' Selecta!
2002
6.5
All the Love You Cannes!
2002
6.3
The Jimmy Show
2002
6.9
Tape
2001
7.5
Waking Life
2001
7.5
Training Day
2001
6.8
Alias
2001
4.3
Chelsea Walls
2001
5.8
Hamlet
2000
6.1
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
4.4
The Velocity of Gary
1999
5.8
Joe the King
1999
6.1
The Newton Boys
1998
6.7
Great Expectations
1998
4.3
The View
1997
7.6
Gattaca
1997
6.4
The Daily Show
1996
4.8
Search and Destroy
1995
8.0
Before Sunrise
1995
5.8
At Sundance
1995
5.0
Floundering
1994
7.2
Quiz Show
1994
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Inside the Actors Studio
1994
6.9
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
1994
6.5
Reality Bites
1994
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
3.7
Straight to One
1993
6.9
Alive
1993
6.4
Rich in Love
1992
6.3
Waterland
1992
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
6.6
A Midnight Clear
1992
5.8
Mystery Date
1991
6.8
White Fang
1991
6.4
Dad
1989
8.3
Dead Poets Society
1989
5.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
4.7
Lion's Den
1988
6.3
Explorers
1985
6.1
Great Performances
1971
7.0
The Oscars
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Tonight at Noon
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The Last of the Tribe
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Revolver
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Hippies
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Before Sunrise: Behind the Scenes
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Camino Real
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The Gunfighter
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Untitled Agnes Denes Documentary
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