Ethan Hawke (Actor) – Overview, Biography

Name:Ethan Hawke
Occupation: Actor
Gender:Male
Height:179 cm (5′ 11”)
Birth Day: November 6,
1970
Age: 50
Birth Place: Austin,
United States
Zodiac Sign:Scorpio

Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke was born on November 6, 1970 in Austin, United States (50 years old). Ethan Hawke is an Actor, zodiac sign: Scorpio. Nationality: United States. Approx. Net Worth: $55 Million.

Trivia

He initially rose to fame for his roles in the 1985 film Explorers and the 1989 film Dead Poets Society.

Net Worth 2020

$55 Million
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Family Members

#NameRelationshipNet WorthSalaryAgeOccupation
#1Patrick Powers Brother N/A N/A N/A
#2Matthew Hawke Brother N/A N/A N/A
#3Clementine Jane Hawke Children N/A N/A N/A
#4Indiana Hawke Children N/A N/A N/A
#5
Maya Hawke
Maya Hawke
Daughter$3 Million N/A 22 Actor
#6James Steven Hawke Father N/A N/A N/A
#7
Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman
Former spouse$45 Million N/A 50 Actor
#8Leslie Carole Green Mother N/A N/A N/A
#9Heather Powers Sister N/A N/A N/A
#10Levon Roan Thurman-Hawke Son N/A N/A N/A
#11Ryan Hawke Spouse N/A N/A N/A
#12Edith Mosher N/A N/A N/A
#13Frank Taylor Hawke N/A N/A N/A
#14
Maya Thurman-Hawke
Maya Thurman-Hawke
$1 Million – $2 Million (Approx.) N/A 22 Actor

Physique

HeightWeightHair ColourEye ColourBlood TypeTattoo(s)
179 cm (5′ 11”) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Before Fame

In his youth, he aspired to become a writer but developed a love for acting after starring in a school production of Saint Joan. Later in life, he would fulfill his wish and write novels.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1970

Hawke was born in 1970 in Austin, Texas, to Leslie (née Green), a charity worker, and James Hawke, an insurance actuary. Hawke’s parents were high school sweethearts in Fort Worth, Texas, and married young, when Hawke’s mother was 17. Hawke was born a year later. Hawke’s parents were both students at the University of Texas at Austin at the time of his birth. They separated and later divorced in 1974, when he was four years old.

1988

After the separation, Hawke was raised by his mother. The two relocated several times, before settling in New York City, where Hawke attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights. Hawke’s mother remarried when he was 10 and the family moved to West Windsor Township, New Jersey. There, Hawke attended the public West Windsor Plainsboro High School (renamed to West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South in 1997). He later transferred to the Hun School of Princeton, a secondary boarding school, from which he graduated in 1988.

1989

In 1989, Hawke made his breakthrough appearance in Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society, playing one of the students taught by Robin Williams as a charismatic English teacher. The Variety reviewer noted “Hawke, as the painfully shy Todd, gives a haunting performance.” The film received considerable acclaim, winning the BAFTA Award for Best Film and an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. With revenue of $235 million worldwide, it remains Hawke’s most commercially successful movie to date. Hawke later described the opportunities he was offered as a result of the film’s success as critical to his decision to continue acting:

1992

Hawke has described theater as his “first love”, a place where he is “free to be more creative”. Hawke made his Broadway debut in 1992, portraying the playwright Konstantin Treplev in Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull at the Lyceum Theater in Manhattan. The following year Hawke was a co-founder and the artistic director of Malaparte, a Manhattan theater company, which survived until 2000. Outside the New York stage, Hawke made an appearance in a 1995 production of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, directed by Gary Sinise at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. In 1999, he starred as Kilroy in the Tennessee Williams play Camino Real at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts.

1996

He published his first novel in 1996, The Hottest State, about a love affair between a young actor and a singer. Hawke said of the novel,

1998

In Andrew Niccol’s science fiction film Gattaca (1997), “one of the more interesting scripts” Hawke said he had read in “a number of years”, he played the role of a man who infiltrates a society of genetically perfect humans by assuming another man’s identity. Although Gattaca was not a success at the box office, it drew generally favorable reviews from critics. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reviewer wrote that “Hawke, building on the sympathetic-but-edgy presence that has served him well since his kid-actor days, is most impressive”. In 1998, Hawke appeared alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert De Niro in Great Expectations, a contemporary film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. During the same year, Hawke collaborated with Linklater again on The Newton Boys, based on the true story of the Newton Gang. Critical reviews for each film were mixed. The following year, Hawke starred in Snow Falling on Cedars, based on David Guterson’s novel of the same title. Set in the Pacific Northwest and featuring a love affair between a European-American man and Japanese-American woman, the film met with an unenthusiastic reception; Entertainment Weekly noted, “Hawke scrunches himself into such a dark knot that we have no idea who Ishmael is or why he acts as he does.”

On May 1, 1998, Hawke married actress Uma Thurman, whom he had met on the set of Gattaca in 1996. They have two children, Maya (b. 1998) and Levon (b. 2002). The couple separated in 2003 amid allegations of Hawke’s infidelity, and filed for divorce the following year. The divorce was finalized in August 2005.

2000

Hawke supports the Democratic Party, and supported Bill Bradley, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton for President of the United States in 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2016, respectively. He is also an activist for gay rights; in March 2011, he and his wife released a video supporting same-sex marriage in New York.

2001

Hawke’s next film role was in Michael Almereyda’s 2000 film Hamlet, in which he played the title character. The film transposed the famous William Shakespeare play to contemporary New York City, a technique Hawke felt made the play more “accessible and vital”. Salon reviewer wrote: “Hawke certainly isn’t the greatest Hamlet of living memory … but his performance reinforces Hamlet’s place as Shakespeare’s greatest character. And in that sense, he more than holds his own in the long line of actors who’ve played the part.” In 2001, Hawke appeared in two more Linklater movies: Waking Life and Tape, both critically praised. In the animated Waking Life, he shared a single scene with former co-star Delpy continuing conversations begun in Before Sunrise. The real-time drama Tape, based on a play by Stephen Belber, takes place entirely in a single motel room with three characters played by Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and Uma Thurman. Hawke regarded Tape as his “first adult performance”, a performance commended by Ebert for showing “both physical and verbal acting mastery”.

Hawke is a longtime supporter of the Doe Fund, which helps homeless people obtain housing and employment. He has served as a co-chair of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Committee, one of New York’s major philanthropic boards. In 2001, Hawke co-founded the Young Lions Fiction Award, an annual prize for achievements in fiction by writers under 35. In November 2010, he was honored as a Library Lion by the New York Public Library. In May 2016, Hawke joined the library’s board of trustees.

2003

Hawke pursued a number of projects away from acting throughout the early 2000s. He made his directorial debut with Chelsea Walls (2002), an independent drama about five struggling artists living in the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City. The film was critically and financially unsuccessful. A second novel, 2002’s Ash Wednesday, was better received and made the New York Times Best Seller list. The tale of an AWOL soldier and his pregnant girlfriend, the novel attracted critical praise. The Guardian called it “sharply and poignantly written … makes for an intense one-sitting read”. The New York Times noted that in the book Hawke displayed “a novelist’s innate gifts … a sharp eye, a fluid storytelling voice and the imagination to create complicated individuals”, but was “weaker at narrative tricks that can be taught”. In 2003, Hawke made a television appearance, guest starring in the second season of the television series Alias, where he portrayed a mysterious CIA agent.

2004

In 2004, Hawke returned to film, starring in two features, Taking Lives and Before Sunset. Upon release, Taking Lives received broadly negative reviews, but Hawke’s performance was favored by critics, with the Star Tribune noting that he “plays a complex character persuasively”. Before Sunset, the sequel to Before Sunrise (1995) co-written by Hawke, Linklater, and Delpy, was much more successful. The Hartford Courant wrote that the three collaborators “keep Jesse and Celine iridescent and fresh, one of the most delightful and moving of all romantic movie couples.” Hawke called it one of his favorite movies, a “romance for realists”. Before Sunset was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Hawke’s first screenwriting Oscar nomination.

2005

Hawke starred in the 2005 action thriller Assault on Precinct 13, a loose remake of John Carpenter’s 1976 film of the same title, with an updated plot. The film received ambivalent reviews; some critics praised the dark swift feel of the film, while others compared it unfavorably to John Carpenter’s original. Hawke also appeared that year in the political crime thriller Lord of War, playing an Interpol agent chasing an arms dealer played by Nicolas Cage. In 2006, Hawke was cast in a supporting role in Fast Food Nation, directed by Richard Linklater based on Eric Schlosser’s best-selling 2001 book. The same year, Hawke directed his second feature, The Hottest State, based on his eponymous 1996 novel. The film was released in August 2007 to a tepid reception.

Hawke returned to Broadway in Jack O’Brien’s 2003 production of Henry IV, playing Henry Percy (Hotspur). New York magazine wrote: “Ethan Hawke’s Hotspur … is a compelling, ardent creation.” Ben Brantley of the New York Times reported that Hawke’s interpretation of Hotspur might be “too contemporary for some tastes,” but allowed “great fun to watch as he fumes and fulminates.” In 2005, Hawke starred in the Off-Broadway revival of David Rabe’s dark comedy Hurlyburly. New York Times critic Brantley praised Hawke’s performance as the central character Eddie, reporting that “he captures with merciless precision the sense of a sharp mind turning flaccid”. The performance earned Hawke a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor.

2006

From November 2006 to May 2007, Hawke starred as Mikhail Bakunin in Tom Stoppard’s trilogy play The Coast of Utopia, an eight-hour-long production at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York. The Los Angeles Times complimented Hawke’s take on Bakunin, writing: “Ethan Hawke buzzes in and out as Bakunin, a strangely appealing enthusiast on his way to becoming a famous anarchist.” The performance earned Hawke his first Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play. In November 2007, he directed Things We Want, a two-act play by Jonathan Marc Sherman, for the artist-driven Off-Broadway company The New Group. The play has four characters played by Paul Dano, Peter Dinklage, Josh Hamilton, and Zoe Kazan. New York magazine praised Hawke’s “understated direction”, particularly his ability to “steer a gifted cast away from the histrionics”.

2007

In 2007, Hawke starred alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, and Albert Finney in the crime drama Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. The final work of Sidney Lumet, the film received critical acclaim. USA Today called it “highly entertaining”, describing Hawke and Hoffman’s performances as excellent. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone praised Hawke’s performance, noting that he “digs deep to create a haunting portrayal of loss”. The following year, Hawke starred with Mark Ruffalo in the crime drama What Doesn’t Kill You. Despite the favorable reception, the film was not given a proper theatrical release due to the bankruptcy of its distributor. In 2009, Hawke appeared in two features: New York, I Love You, a romance movie comprising 12 short films, and Staten Island, a crime drama co-starring Vincent D’Onofrio and Seymour Cassel.

2008

In 2008, Hawke married Ryan Shawhughes, who had briefly worked as a nanny to his and Thurman’s children before graduating from Columbia University. Dismissing speculation about their relationship, Hawke said, “my [first] marriage disintegrated due to many pressures, none of which were remotely connected to Ryan.” They have two daughters.

2009

In 2009, Hawke appeared in two plays under British director Sam Mendes: as Trofimov in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and as Autolycus in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. The two productions, launched in New York as part of the Bridge Project, went on an eight-month tour in six countries. The Cherry Orchard won a mixed review from the New York Daily News, which wrote “Ethan Hawke … fits the image of the ‘mangy’ student Trofimov, but one wishes he didn’t speak with a perennial frog in his throat.” Hawke’s performance in The Winter’s Tale was better received, earning him a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play.

2010

In 2010, Hawke starred as a vampire hematologist in the science fiction horror film Daybreakers. Filmed in Australia with the Spierig brothers, the feature received reasonable reviews, and earned US$51 million worldwide. His next role was in Antoine Fuqua’s Brooklyn’s Finest as a corrupt narcotics officer. The film opened in March to a mediocre reception, yet his performance was well received, with the New York Daily News concluding, “Hawke—continuing an evolution toward stronger, more intense acting than anyone might’ve predicted from him 20 years ago—drives the movie.” In the 2011 television adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, Hawke played the role of Starbuck, the first officer to William Hurt’s Captain Ahab. He then starred opposite Kristin Scott Thomas in Paweł Pawlikowski’s The Woman in the Fifth, a “lush puzzler” about an American novelist struggling to rebuild his life in Paris.

In January 2010, Hawke directed his second play, A Lie of the Mind, by Sam Shepard on the New York stage. It was the first major Off-Broadway revival of the play since its 1985 premiere. Hawke said that he was drawn to the play’s take on “the nature of reality”, and its “weird juxtaposition of humor and mysticism”. In his review for the New York Times, Ben Brantley noted the production’s “scary, splendid clarity”, and praised Hawke for eliciting a performance that “connoisseurs of precision acting will be savoring for years to come”. Entertainment Weekly commented that although A Lie of the Mind “wobbles a bit in its late stages”, Hawke’s “hearty” revival managed to “resurrect the spellbinding uneasiness of the original”. The production garnered five Lucille Lortel Award nominations including Outstanding Revival, and earned Hawke a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play.

2012

Away from acting, Hawke directed the music video for the 1994 song “Stay (I Missed You),” by singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb, who was a member of Hawke’s theater company at the time. In a 2012 interview, Hawke said that the song, which was included in Reality Bites, is the only number-one popular song by an unsigned artist in the history of music.

In 2012, Hawke entered the horror genre for the first time, by playing a true crime writer in Scott Derrickson’s Sinister, which grossed US$87 million at the worldwide box office—the film was the first in a series of highly profitable films for Hawke after the start of the new decade. In the week prior to the US opening of Sinister, Hawke explained that he was previously turned off by horror because good acting is not always required for success; however, the producer of Sinister, Jason Blum, who formerly ran a theater company with Hawke, made the offer to the actor based on the character and director.

2013

During 2013, Hawke starred in three films of different genres. Before Midnight, the third installment of the Before series, reunited Hawke with Delpy and Linklater. Like its predecessors, the film garnered a considerable degree of critical acclaim; Variety wrote that “one of the great movie romances of the modern era achieves its richest and fullest expression in Before Midnight,” and called the scene in the hotel room “one for the actors’ handbook.” The film earned co-writers Hawke, Linklater, and Delpy another Academy Award nomination, for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Hawke next starred in the Off-Broadway premiere of a new play, Tommy Nohilly’s Blood from a Stone, from December 2010 to February 2011. The play was not a critical success, but Hawke’s portrayal of the central character Travis earned positive feedback; The New York Times said he was “remarkably good at communicating the buried sensitivity beneath Travis’s veneer of wary resignation.” A contributor from the New York Post noted it was Hawke’s “best performance in years”. Hawke won an Obie Award for his role in Blood from a Stone. The following year Hawke played the title role in Chekhov’s Ivanov at the Classic Stage Company. In early 2013, he starred in and directed a new play Clive, inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s Baal and written by Jonathan Marc Sherman. Later that year he played the title role in a Broadway production of Macbeth at the Lincoln Center Theater, but his performance failed to win over the critics, with the New York Post calling it “underwhelming” for showing untimely restraint in a flashy production.

2014

Hawke next worked with the Spierig brothers again on the science fiction thriller Predestination, in which Hawke plays a time-traveling agent on his final assignment. Following its premiere at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, the film was released in Australia in August 2014 and in the US in January 2015. The film received largely positive reviews and was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Film. He then reunited with his Gattaca director Andrew Niccol for Good Kill. In this modern war film, Hawke played a drone pilot with a troubled conscience, which led to The Hollywood Reporter calling it his “best screen role in years.” Also in 2014, Hawke appeared in the movie Cymbeline which reunited him with his Assault on Precinct 13 co-star John Leguizamo.

In September 2014, Hawke’s documentary debut, Seymour: An Introduction, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), winning second runner-up for TIFF’s People’s Choice Award for Best Documentary. Conceived after a dinner party at which both Hawke and Bernstein were present, the film is a profile of classical musician Seymour Bernstein, who explained that, even though he is typically a very private person, he was unable to decline Hawke’s directorial request because he is “so endearing”. Bernstein and Hawke developed a friendship through the filming process, and the classical pianist performed for one of Hawke’s theater groups. The film was released in March 2015 to a warm reception; the Los Angeles Times reviewer described it as “quietly moving, indefinitely deep”.

2015

Hawke had two films premiered at the 2015 TIFF, both garnering favorable reviews. In Robert Budreau’s drama film Born to Be Blue, he played the role of jazz musician Chet Baker. The film is set in the late 1960s and focuses on the musician’s turbulent career comeback plagued by heroin addiction. His portrayal of Baker was well received; Rolling Stone noted that “Everything that makes Ethan Hawke an extraordinary actor — his energy, his empathy, his fearless, vanity-free eagerness to explore the deeper recesses of a character — is on view in Born to Be Blue.” In Rebecca Miller’s romantic comedy Maggie’s Plan, Hawke starred as an anthropologist and aspiring novelist alongside Greta Gerwig and Julianne Moore. His other films that year included the coming-of-age drama Ten Thousand Saints and the psychological thriller Regression opposite Emma Watson. In November 2015, Hawke published his third novel, Rules for a Knight, in the form of a letter from a father to his four children about the moral values in life.

2016

In 2016, Hawke starred in Ti West’s western film In a Valley of Violence, in which he played a drifter seeking revenge in a small town controlled by its Marshal (John Travolta). He then portrayed two unpleasant characters in a row, first as the abusive father of a talented young baseball player in The Phenom, then as the harsh husband of Maud Lewis (played by Sally Hawkins) in Maudie. While some critics praised his unexpected turns, others felt that Hawke was “miscast” as a cruel figure. He subsequently reunited with Training Day director Antoine Fuqua and actor Denzel Washington for The Magnificent Seven (2016), a remake of the 1960 western film of the same name. On June 7, his fourth book, Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars, a graphic novel he wrote with artist Greg Ruth, was released.

2017

In 2017, Hawke appeared in a cameo role in the science fiction film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets by Luc Besson; and starred in Paul Schrader’s drama film First Reformed, as a former military chaplain tortured by the loss of his son he encouraged to enlist in the armed forces, and focused on impending cataclysmic climate change. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival to a positive reception.

2018

In 2018, Hawke had two films premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. In Juliet, Naked, a romantic comedy adapted from Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name, he appeared as an obscure rock musician whose eponymous album set the plot in motion. His third feature film, Blaze, based on the life of little-known country musician Blaze Foley, was selected in the festival’s main competition section. In addition, Hawke starred in Budreau’s crime thriller Stockholm which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Hawke was in the 2019 western drama The Kid, directed by Vincent D’Onofrio.

2019

In 2019, Hawke and Jason Blum adapted the book The Good Lord Bird into the film based on the same name which premiered on October 4, 2020 on Showtime. Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown alongside Daveed Diggs, Ellar Coltrane, and includes an appearance of Maya Hawke.

In 2019, Hawke returned to Broadway in the revival of Sam Shepard’s True West, co-starring Paul Dano. The show was met with critical acclaim. It received the Critic’s Pick from The New York Times. The show’s previews began on December 27, 2018 and officially opened January 24, 2019 closing on March 17, 2019.

2020

In the 2020 biographical film Tesla, he plays the title character, inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla. Hawke’s third novel, A Bright Ray of Darkness, will be published in February 2021.

In 2020, it was announced Hawke was cast in Robert Egger’s latest film, The Northman alongside Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Willem Dafoe. The film is a 10th Century Viking epic which is being filmed in Ireland through November 2020.

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