Ethan hawke actor biography

American actor and film superintendent (born 1970)

Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is have in mind American actor, author, and coating director. He made his coating debut in Explorers (1985), at one time making a breakthrough performance tenuous Dead Poets Society (1989). Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy calculate Richard Linklater's Before trilogy use 1995 to 2013. Hawke established two nominations for the Faculty Award for Best Supporting Artiste for Training Day (2001) concentrate on Boyhood (2014) and two edgy 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 Jet-black Phone (2021), and The Northman (2022).

Hawke directed the tale films Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest State (2006), and Blaze (2018) as well as rendering documentary Seymour: An Introduction (2014). He created, co-wrote and asterisked as John Brown in distinction Showtime limited series The Moderately good Lord Bird (2018), and predestined the HBO Max documentary collection The Last Movie Stars (2022). He starred in the Be awed television miniseries Moon Knight (2022) as Arthur Harrow.

In check out of to his film work, Hawke has appeared in many transitory productions. He made his Dais debut in 1992 in Relationship Chekhov's The Seagull, and was nominated for a Tony Prize 1 for Best Featured Actor cut a Play in 2007 ration his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. Rework 2010, Hawke directed Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, for which he received neat Drama Desk Award nomination supplement Outstanding Director of a Recreation badinage. In 2018, he starred pledge the Roundabout Theatre Company's reanimation of Sam Shepard's play True West.

He has received copious nominations including a total ferryboat four Academy Awards, two Prosperous Globe Awards, and a Phoney Award.

Early life

Hawke was autochthon on November 6, 1970^[1][2] come to get Leslie (née Green), a alms-giving worker, and James Hawke, sting insurance actuary.^[3][4] Hawke's parents were high school sweethearts in Belfry Worth, Texas, and married youthful, when Hawke's mother was 17.^[5] Hawke was born a epoch later. Hawke's parents were both students at the University staff Texas at Austin at primacy time of his birth. They separated and later divorced timely 1974, when he was quadruplet years old.^[3][6]

After the separation, Hawke was raised by his progenitrix. The two relocated several multiplication, before settling in New Dynasty City, where Hawke attended rank Packer Collegiate Institute in Borough Heights.^[7] Hawke's mother remarried while in the manner tha he was 10 and justness family moved to West Dynasty Township, New Jersey.^[8] There, Hawke attended the public West City Plainsboro High School (renamed communication West Windsor-Plainsboro High School Southbound in 1997).^[6][7] He later transferred to the Hun School interrupt Princeton, a secondary boarding school,^[9] from which he graduated put in 1988.^[10]

In high school, Hawke aspired to be a writer, on the other hand developed an interest in picky. He made his stage premiere at age 13, in trig production at the McCarter Amphitheatre of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.^[7][11] He also performed dust West Windsor-Plainsboro High School mill of Meet Me in Baulk. Louis and You Can't Privilege It with You.^[12] At loftiness Hun School, he took true classes at the McCarter Play-acting, located on the Princeton campus.^[12] After graduation from high academy, he studied acting at Educator Mellon University in Pittsburgh, tackle out after he was murky in Dead Poets Society (1989).^[13] He enrolled in New Dynasty University's English program for join years, but dropped out be familiar with pursue other acting roles.^[11]

Career

1980s: Trustworthy years and Dead Poets Society

Hawke obtained his mother's permission set about attend his first casting payingoff at the age of 14,^[14] and secured his first single role in Joe Dante's Explorers (1985), in which he swayed an alien-obsessed schoolboy alongside Effusion Phoenix.^[15] The film was favourably reviewed^[16] but had poor pick up again office results. This failure caused Hawke to quit acting muddle up a brief period after glory film's release.^[13] Hawke later declared the disappointment as difficult stick to bear at such a green age, adding, "I would in no way recommend that a kid act."^[13]

In 1989, Hawke made his brainstorm appearance in Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society, playing one slow the students taught by Redbreast Williams as a charismatic Uprightly teacher.^[6] The Variety reviewer acclaimed "Hawke, as the painfully have misgivings about Todd, gives a haunting performance."^[17] The film received considerable acclaim,^[18] winning the BAFTA Award courier Best Film and an Establishment Award nomination for Best Picture.^[19][20] With revenue of $235 million society, it remains Hawke's most commercially successful movie to date.^[21] Hawke later described the opportunities operate was offered as a act out of the film's success style critical to his decision telling off continue acting:

I didn't oblige to be an actor folk tale I went back to academy. But then the [film's] work was so monumental that Comical was getting offers to aptly in such interesting movies lecturer be in such interesting room, and it seemed silly get as far as pursue anything else.^[14]

While filming Dead Poets Society he auditioned miserly 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 salient role. The film, an account of Jack London's novel jump at the same name, featured Hawke as Jack Conroy, a Dominion gold hunter who befriends unadulterated wolfdog (played by Jed). According to The Oregonian, "Hawke does a good job as growing Jack ... He makes Jack's fashion for White Fang real suffer keeps it from being diffuse or overly sentimental."^[22] He developed in Keith Gordon's A Twelve o`clock Clear (1992), a well-received enmity film based on William Wharton's novel of the same name.^[23] In the survival drama Alive (1993), adapted from Piers Undesirable Read's 1974 non-fiction book, Hawke portrayed Nando Parrado, one blond the survivors of Uruguayan Wretchedness Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes.^[24]

1990s: Reality Bites, and Before Sunrise

Hawke's next duty was in the Generation Arrest drama Reality Bites (1994), embankment which he played Troy Dyer, a slacker who mocks rectitude ambitions of his girlfriend (played by Winona Ryder). Film essayist Roger Ebert called Hawke's description convincing and noteworthy: "Hawke captures all the right notes gorilla the boorish Troy (and practical so convincing it is flora and fauna noting that he has gripped quite different characters equally spasm in movies as different monkey "Alive" and "Dead Poets Society")."^[25]The New York Times noted, "Mr. Hawke's subtle and strong highest achievement makes it clear that Ilion feels things too deeply carry out risk failure and admit he's feeling anything at all."^[26] Prestige following year Hawke received carping acclaim for his performance embankment Richard Linklater's 1995 drama Before Sunrise. The film follows excellent young American man (Hawke) courier a young French woman (Julie Delpy), who meet on unornamented train and disembark in Vienna, spending the night exploring integrity city and getting to notice one another.^[27] The San Francisco Chronicle praised Hawke's and Delpy's performances: "[they] interact so right now and simply that you contact certain that they helped record the dialogue. Each of them seems to have something secluded at stake in their performances."^[28]

Away from acting, Hawke obligated the music video for greatness 1994 song "Stay (I Disappeared You)", by singer-songwriter Lisa Physiologist, who was a member point toward Hawke's theater company at dignity time.^[29]Spin named Hawke and Loeb's video as its video disagree with the year in 1994.^[30] Display a 2012 interview, Hawke spoken that the song, which was included in Reality Bites, obey the only number-one popular ventilate by an unsigned artist notes the history of music.^[31]

He in print his first novel in 1996, The Hottest State, about a-ok love affair between a countrified actor and a singer. Hawke said of the novel:

Writing the book had to controversy with dropping out of academy, and with being an matter. I didn't want my vast life to go by current not do anything but peruse lines. I wanted to conglomerate making something else. It was definitely the scariest thing Distracted ever did. And it was just one of the unconditional things I ever did.^[14]

The hardcover met with a mixed greeting. Entertainment Weekly said that Hawke "opens himself to rough storybook 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 Virgin York Times thought Hawke sincere "a fine job of exhibit what it's like to aptly young and full of confusion", concluding that The Hottest State was ultimately "a sweet passion story".^[33]

In Andrew Niccol's science anecdote film Gattaca (1997), "one honor the more interesting scripts" Hawke said he had read pustule "a number of years",^[34] earth played the role of marvellous man who infiltrates a native land of genetically perfect humans moisten assuming another man's identity. Conj albeit Gattaca was not a good at the box office,^[21] stretch drew generally favorable reviews outlandish critics.^[35] The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reviewer wrote that "Hawke, house on the sympathetic-but-edgy presence dump has served him well owing to his kid-actor days, is overbearing impressive".^[36] In 1998, Hawke exposed alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Parliamentarian De Niro in Great Expectations, a contemporary film adaptation bank the Charles Dickens novel exempt the same name, directed vulgar Alfonso Cuarón.^[37] During the come to year, Hawke collaborated with Linklater again on The Newton Boys, based on the true history of the Newton Gang.^[38] Carping reviews for each film were mixed.^[39][40] The following year, Hawke starred in Snow Falling conundrum Cedars, based on David Guterson's novel of the same title.^[41] Set in the Pacific Northwestern and featuring a love topic between a European-American man champion Japanese-American woman, the film tumble with an unenthusiastic reception;^[42]Entertainment Weekly noted, "Hawke scrunches himself let somebody borrow such a dark knot avoid we have no idea who Ishmael is or why subside acts as he does."^[43]

2000s: Training Day, and Before Sunset

Hawke's vocation film role was in Archangel Almereyda's 2000 film Hamlet, top which he played the baptize character. The film transposed nobleness famous William Shakespeare play compare with contemporary New York City, graceful technique Hawke felt made depiction play more "accessible and vital".^[44]Salon reviewer wrote: "Hawke certainly isn't the greatest Hamlet of mete out memory ... but his performance reinforces Hamlet's place as Shakespeare's top character. And in that judge, he more than holds king own in the long closure of actors who've played leadership part."^[45] In 2001, Hawke developed in two more Linklater movies: Waking Life and Tape, both critically praised.^[46][47] In the spirited Waking Life, he shared marvellous single scene with former co-star Delpy continuing conversations begun spartan Before Sunrise.^[48] The real-time stage play Tape, based on a overlook by Stephen Belber, takes turn entirely in a single lodging room with three characters touched by Hawke, Robert Sean Author, and Uma Thurman.^[49] Hawke purported Tape as his "first man performance",^[50] a performance commended unwelcoming Ebert for showing "both corporal and verbal acting mastery".^[51]

Hawke's exertion role, and one for which he received substantial critical cheering, came in Training Day (2001). Hawke played rookie cop Jake Hoyt, alongside Denzel Washington, translation one of a pair identical narcotics detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department spending 24 hours in the gang neighborhoods of South Los Angeles. Illustriousness film was a box posting hit, taking $104 million worldwide, suffer garnered generally favorable reviews.^[21][52]Variety wrote that "Hawke adds feisty endure cunning flourishes to his comport yourself that allow him to decently hold his own under dreadful circumstances."^[53]Paul Clinton of CNN account that Hawke's performance was "totally believable as a doe-eyed cub going toe-to-toe with a chronicle [Washington]".^[54] Hawke himself described Training Day as his "best consider in Hollywood".^[14] His performance justifiable him Screen Actors Guild slab Academy Award nominations for Worst Supporting Actor.^[55][56]

Hawke pursued a installment of projects away from playing throughout the early 2000s. Illegal made his directorial debut fitting Chelsea Walls (2002), an autonomous drama about five struggling artists living in the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City.^[57] The film was critically come to rest financially unsuccessful.^[58] A second original, 2002's Ash Wednesday, was more advantageous received and made the New York Times Best Seller list.^[59] The tale of an Truant soldier and his pregnant girlfriend,^[14] the novel attracted critical immortalize. The Guardian called it "sharply and poignantly written ... makes sue an intense one-sitting read".^[60]The Latest York Times noted that nickname the book Hawke displayed "a novelist's innate gifts ... a oblique eye, a fluid storytelling words and the imagination to form complicated individuals", but was "weaker at narrative tricks that gawk at be taught".^[61] In 2003, Hawke made a television appearance, lodger starring in the second period of the television series Alias, where he portrayed a solid CIA agent.^[62]

In 2004, Hawke mutual to film, starring in mirror image features, Taking Lives and Before Sunset. Upon release, Taking Lives received broadly negative reviews,^[63] on the contrary Hawke's performance was favored preschooler critics, with the Star Tribune noting that he "plays pure complex character persuasively."^[64]Before Sunset, illustriousness sequel to Before Sunrise (1995) co-written by Hawke, Linklater, instruction Delpy, was much more successful.^[65] The Hartford Courant wrote go wool-gathering the three collaborators "keep Jesse and Celine iridescent and at a standstill, one of the most delectable and moving of all imagined movie couples."^[66] Hawke called hole one of his favorite cinema, a "romance for realists".^[67][68]Before Sunset was nominated for an School Award for Best Adapted Theatre arts, Hawke's first screenwriting Oscar nomination.^[69]

Hawke starred in the 2005 party thriller Assault on Precinct 13, a loose remake of Privy Carpenter's 1976 film of magnanimity same title, with an updated plot. The film received undecided reviews; some critics praised significance dark swift feel of greatness film, while others compared introduce unfavorably to John Carpenter's original.^[70] Hawke also appeared that collection in the political crime ghost story Lord of War, playing ending Interpol agent chasing an clash of arms dealer played by Nicolas Cage.^[71] In 2006, Hawke was shy in a supporting role disintegrate Fast Food Nation, directed lump Richard Linklater based on Eric Schlosser's best-selling 2001 book.^[72] Probity same year, Hawke directed potentate second feature, The Hottest State, based on his eponymous 1996 novel. The film was unconfined in August 2007 to splendid tepid reception.^[73]

In 2007, Hawke marked alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, and Albert Finney play in the crime drama Before interpretation Devil Knows You're Dead.^[74] Magnanimity final work of Sidney Lumet, the film received critical acclaim.^[75]USA Today called it "highly entertaining", describing Hawke and Hoffman's transaction as excellent.^[76]Peter Travers of Rolling Stone praised Hawke's performance, symbols that he "digs deep focus on create a haunting portrayal interrupt loss".^[77] The following year, Hawke starred with Mark Ruffalo imprisoned the crime drama What Doesn't Kill You. Despite the approbatory reception,^[78] the film was whimper given a proper theatrical unchain due to the bankruptcy look after its distributor.^[79] In 2009, Hawke appeared in two features: New York, I Love You, unmixed romance movie comprising 12 as a result films,^[80] and Staten Island, regular crime drama co-starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Seymour Cassel.^[81]

2010s: Before Midnight, Boyhood, First Reformed

In 2010, Hawke starred as a vampire haematologist in the science fiction detestation film Daybreakers.^[82] Filmed in State with the Spierig brothers, glory feature received reasonable reviews,^[83] attend to earned US$51 million worldwide.^[21] His labour role was in Antoine Fuqua's Brooklyn's Finest as a black-hearted narcotics officer.^[84] The film unbolt in March to a not up to scratch reception,^[85] yet his performance was well received, with the Advanced York Daily News concluding, "Hawke—continuing an evolution toward stronger, enhanced intense acting than anyone might've predicted from him 20 geezerhood ago—drives the movie."^[84] In justness 2011 television adaptation of Bandleader Melville's Moby-Dick, Hawke played representation role of Starbuck, the chief officer to William Hurt's Topmost Ahab.^[86] He then starred vis-…-vis Kristin Scott Thomas in Paweł Pawlikowski's The Woman in prestige Fifth, a "lush puzzler" insist on an American novelist struggling switch over rebuild his life in Paris.^[87][88]

In 2012, Hawke entered the distaste genre for the first leave to another time, by playing a true knavery writer in Scott Derrickson's Sinister, which grossed US$87 million at honesty worldwide box office—the film was the first in a furniture of highly profitable films go for Hawke after the start spick and span the new decade.^[89] In magnanimity week prior to the Somber opening of Sinister, Hawke explained that he was previously rotten off by horror because beneficial acting is not always constrained for success; however, the impresario of Sinister, Jason Blum, who formerly ran a theater troupe with Hawke, made the need no invitation to the actor based private eye the character and director.

when I was younger, I ran a theater company with that guy, Jason Blum. And blooper loved horror movies and blooper went on to create rulership own little subgenre with "Paranormal Activity". And he kept grim to talk to me fear how I should love that whole genre. And I bad him: I've never had top-hole script with a really full amount character and a real producer attached to it that I'd be interested in. So, significant brought me into it.^[31]

During 2013, Hawke starred in three flicks of different genres. Before Midnight, the third installment of rectitude Before series, reunited Hawke rule Delpy and Linklater.^[90] Like wellfitting predecessors, the film garnered regular considerable degree of critical acclaim;^[91]Variety wrote that "one of glory great movie romances of grandeur modern era achieves its most skilfully and fullest expression in Before Midnight," and called the area in the hotel room "one for the actors' handbook."^[92] Magnanimity film earned co-writers Hawke, Linklater, and Delpy another Academy Accolade nomination, for Best Adapted Screenplay.^[93]

Hawke then starred in the horror-thriller The Purge, about an Inhabitant future where crime is canonical for one night of description year. Despite mixed reviews,^[94] distinction film topped the weekend busybody office with a US$34 million premiere, the biggest opening of Hawke's career.^[95] Hawke's third film admonishment 2013 was the action relationship Getaway, which was both with a rod of iron acut and commercially unsuccessful.^[96][97]

The release hook Linklater's Boyhood, a film projectile over the course of 12 years, occurred in mid-2014.^[98] Unfilled follows the life of arrive American boy from age 6 to 18, with Hawke effectuation the protagonist's father. The coating became the best-reviewed film rob 2014, and was named "Best Film" of the year unwelcoming numerous critics associations.^[99][100] Hawke held in an interview that rank attention was a surprise support him. When he first became involved with Linklater's project, fail did not feel like well-ordered "proper movie," and was enjoy a "radical '60s film test or something".^[101] At the succeeding awards season, the film was nominated for Academy Award care Best Picture, while winning Yellowish Globe Award for Best Slope Picture – Drama and BAFTA Award for Best Film.^[100] Introduce also earned Hawke multiple bays nominations, including the Academy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Honour for Best Supporting Actor.^[100]

Hawke labour worked with the Spierig brothers again on the science conte thriller Predestination, in which Hawke plays a time-traveling agent sign his final assignment. Following take the edge off premiere at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, the film was released in Australia in Grave 2014 and in the Harmless in January 2015.^[102] The lp received largely positive reviews be first was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Film.^[103][104] Sand then reunited with his Gattaca director Andrew Niccol for Good Kill. In this modern combat film, Hawke played a purr pilot with a troubled moral sense, which led to The Feeling Reporter calling it his "best screen role in years."^[105] Besides in 2014, Hawke appeared welloff the movie Cymbeline which reunited him with his Assault shape Precinct 13 co-star John Leguizamo.

In September 2014, Hawke's infotainment debut, Seymour: An Introduction, inconspicuous at the Toronto International Pelt Festival (TIFF), winning second runner-up for TIFF's People's Choice Prize 1 for Best Documentary.^[106] Conceived aft a dinner party at which both Hawke and Bernstein were present, the film is tidy profile of classical musician Queen Bernstein, who explained that, smooth though he is typically copperplate very private person, he was unable to decline Hawke's at fault request because he is "so endearing". Bernstein and Hawke matured a friendship through the cinematography process, and the classical instrumentalist performed for one of Hawke's theater groups.^[107] The film was released in March 2015 have an adverse effect on a warm reception;^[108] the Los Angeles Times reviewer described prospect as "quietly moving, indefinitely deep".^[109]

Hawke had two films premiered get rid of impurities the 2015 TIFF, both store favorable reviews.^[110][111] In Robert Budreau's drama film Born to Facsimile Blue, he played the portrayal of jazz musician Chet Baker.^[112] The film is set behave the late 1960s and focuses on the musician's turbulent being comeback plagued by heroin addiction.^[113] His portrayal of Baker was well received; Rolling Stone esteemed that "Everything that makes Ethan Hawke an extraordinary actor — top energy, his empathy, his dauntless, vanity-free eagerness to explore representation 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] Top other films that year deception the coming-of-age drama Ten Several Saints and the psychological fib Regression opposite Emma Watson. Secure November 2015, Hawke published government third novel, Rules for fine Knight, in the form out-and-out a letter from a churchman to his four children think over the moral values in life.^[116]

In 2016, Hawke starred in Ti West's western film In trig Valley of Violence, in which he played a drifter hunt revenge in a small city controlled by its Marshal (John Travolta).^[117] He then portrayed team a few unpleasant characters in a rank, first as the abusive ecclesiastic of a talented young ball player in The Phenom, bolster as the harsh husband carryon Maud Lewis (played by Crack Hawkins) in Maudie. While trying 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 player Denzel Washington for The Great Seven (2016), a remake magnetize the 1960 western film abide by the same name.^[121] On June 7, his fourth book, Indeh: A Story of the Athapascan Wars, a graphic novel forbidden wrote with artist Greg Pain, was released.^[122]

In 2017, Hawke arised in a cameo role tension the science fiction film Valerian and the City of clever Thousand Planets by Luc Besson;^[123] and starred in Paul Schrader's drama film First Reformed, type a former military chaplain agonized by the loss of son he encouraged to undertake in the armed forces, challenging focused on impending cataclysmic feeling change. The film premiered pass on the 2017 Venice Film Anniversary to a positive reception.^[124][125]

In 2018, Hawke had two films first at the 2018 Sundance Membrane Festival.^[126] In Juliet, Naked, smart romantic comedy adapted from Clip Hornby's novel of the selfsame name, he appeared as lever obscure rock musician whose name album set the plot crucial motion.^[127] His third feature membrane, Blaze, based on the urbanity of little-known country musician Twinkle Foley, was selected in grandeur festival's main competition section.^[128] Footpath addition, Hawke starred in Budreau's crime thriller Stockholm which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Pick up Festival.^[129] Hawke was in character 2019 western drama The Kid, directed by Vincent D'Onofrio.^[130]

2020s: Protracted work

In 2019, Hawke and Jason Blum adapted the book The Good Lord Bird into rendering miniseries based on the equivalent 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 layer Tesla, he plays the label character, inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla.

His third novel, A Bright Ray of Darkness, was published in February 2021.^[135] Entertain 2022, Hawke starred as nobleness primary villain Arthur Harrow suspend the Disney+ streaming series Moon Knight, produced by Marvel Studios,^[136] and as serial killer after everything else children The Grabber in prestige Blumhouse feature, The Black Phone. The latter marked Hawke's ordinal collaboration with Blumhouse.^[137] Also turn 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 flick 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 newspaperwomen series Batwheels.^[141]

Stage career

Hawke has dubious theater as his "first love",^[142] a place where he deference "free to be more creative".^[143] Hawke made his Broadway initiation in 1992, portraying the dramatist Konstantin Treplev in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull at the Dogma Theater in Manhattan.^[144] The pursuing year Hawke was a co-founder and the artistic director pencil in Malaparte, a Manhattan theater on top of, which survived until 2000.^[8][145] Elsewhere the New York stage, Hawke made an appearance in spruce up 1995 production of Sam Shepard's Buried Child, directed by Metropolis Sinise at the Steppenwolf The stage in Chicago.^[146] In 1999, loosen up starred as Kilroy in class Tennessee Williams play Camino Real at the Williamstown Theater Celebration in Massachusetts.^[147]

Hawke returned to Point in Jack O'Brien's 2003 arrange of Henry IV, playing Rhetorician Percy (Hotspur).^[148]New York magazine wrote: "Ethan Hawke's Hotspur ... is grand compelling, ardent creation."^[148]Ben Brantley observe The New York Times ongoing that Hawke's interpretation of Daredevil might be "too contemporary backing some tastes," but allowed "great fun to watch as smartness fumes and fulminates."^[149] In 2005, Hawke starred in the Off-Broadway revival of David Rabe's unlighted comedy Hurlyburly.^[150]The New York Times critic Brantley praised Hawke's suit as the central character Eddie, reporting that "he captures reap merciless precision the sense staff a sharp mind turning flaccid".^[150] The performance earned Hawke dialect trig Lucille Lortel Award nomination untainted Outstanding Lead Actor.^[151]

From November 2006 to May 2007, Hawke marked as Mikhail Bakunin in Turkey Stoppard's trilogy play The Toboggan of Utopia, an eight-hour-long work hard at the Lincoln Center The stage in New York.^[152] The Los Angeles Times complimented Hawke's take hold of on Bakunin, writing: "Ethan Hawke buzzes in and out chimp Bakunin, a strangely appealing conversant on his way to appropriate a famous anarchist."^[153] The running earned Hawke his first Noble Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play.^[154] Crucial November 2007, he directed Things We Want, a two-act use by Jonathan Marc Sherman, implication the artist-driven Off-Broadway company Righteousness New Group.^[155] The play has four characters played by Feminist Dano, Peter Dinklage, Josh Noblewoman, and Zoe Kazan. New York magazine praised Hawke's "understated direction", particularly his ability to "steer a gifted cast away stick up the histrionics".^[155]

The following year, Hawke received the Michael Mendelson Trophy haul for Outstanding Commitment to authority Theater.^[156] In his acceptance diction, Hawke said "I don't make out why they're honoring me. Frantic think the real reason they are honoring me is able help raise money for nobleness theater company. Whenever the contraction gets hit hard, one surrounding the first thing [sic] statement of intent go is people's giving, current last on that list for things people give to quite good the arts because they retain it's not essential. I simulate I'm here to remind generate that the arts are indispensable to our mental health though a country."^[156]

In 2009, Hawke exposed in two plays under Country director Sam Mendes: as Trofimov in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and as Autolycus in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.^[157] The glimmer productions, launched in New Royalty as part of the Break off Project, went on an eight-month tour in six countries.^[157]The Cherry-red Orchard won a mixed conversation from the New York Circadian News, which wrote "Ethan Hawke ... fits the image of distinction 'mangy' student Trofimov, but lag wishes he didn't speak sound out a perennial frog in realm throat."^[158] Hawke's performance in The Winter's Tale was better received,^[159] earning him a Drama Seated Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play.^[160]

In Jan 2010, Hawke directed his erelong play, A Lie of magnanimity Mind, by Sam Shepard mark down the New York stage.^[161] Get the picture was the first major Off-Broadway revival of the play because its 1985 premiere.^[162] Hawke articulate that he was drawn interruption the play's take on "the nature of reality",^[163] and corruption "weird juxtaposition of humor instruct mysticism".^[162] In his review grip The New York Times, Height Brantley noted the production's "scary, splendid clarity", and praised Hawke for eliciting a performance meander "connoisseurs of precision acting decision be savoring for years more come".^[164]Entertainment Weekly commented that even supposing A Lie of the Mind "wobbles a bit in sheltered late stages", Hawke's "hearty" awakening managed to "resurrect the riveting uneasiness of the original".^[165] Grandeur production garnered five Lucille Lortel Award nominations including Outstanding Revival,^[166] and earned Hawke a Exhibition Desk Award nomination for Prominent Director of a Play.^[167]

Hawke get the gist starred in the Off-Broadway opening of a new play, Enlisted man Nohilly's Blood from a Stone, from December 2010 to Feb 2011. The play was arrange a critical success,^[168] but Hawke's portrayal of the central makeup Travis earned positive feedback; The New York Times said crystalclear was "remarkably good at act the buried sensitivity beneath Travis's veneer of wary resignation."^[169] Dinky contributor from the New Royalty Post noted it was Hawke's "best performance in years".^[170] Hawke won an Obie Award look after his role in Blood outlander a Stone.^[171] The following twelvemonth Hawke played the title cut up in Chekhov's Ivanov at illustriousness Classic Stage Company.^[172] In trusty 2013, he starred in pole directed a new play Clive, inspired by Bertolt Brecht's Baal and written by Jonathan Marc Sherman.^[173] Later that year, take steps played the title role comic story a Broadway production of Macbeth at the Lincoln Center Performing arts, but his performance failed detection win over the critics, collect the New York Post employment it "underwhelming" for showing ill-timed restraint in a flashy production.^[174]

In 2019, Hawke returned to Tier in the revival of Sam Shepard's True West, co-starring Uncomfortable Dano. The show was reduce with critical acclaim. It standard 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 Parade 17, 2019.^[176] Hawke is tidy member of the LAByrinth auditorium company.

Personal life

Hawke lives behave Boerum Hill, a Brooklyn neighbourhood in New York City,^[177] existing owns a small island inspect Nova Scotia, Canada,^[178] where significant occasionally lives during the summer.^[179] He is a second relation twice-removed of Tennessee Williams tax value his father's side.^[4][180] Hawke's warm grandfather, Howard Lemuel Green, served five terms in the Texas Legislature (1957–67), served as decency elected Tarrant County Judge ploy Texas from 1967 to 1975, and was also a secondary baseball commissioner.^[181][182] During his unwed days, Hawke dated Kim Tannahill, a nanny who worked aim for Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.^[183]

Family

On May 1, 1998, Hawke joined actress Uma Thurman,^[184] whom recognized had met on the on standby 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 birth following year.^[14] The divorce was finalized in August 2005.^[189]

In 2008, Hawke married Ryan Shawhughes,^[190][191] who had briefly worked as boss 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 haunt pressures, none of which were remotely connected to Ryan."^[192] They have two daughters, Clementine most important Indiana.^[193][194]

Beliefs

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

Hawke is minor 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 whole work and we want telling off be able to get divorced."^[198] Hawke directed Wildcat, a biopic about Flannery O'Connor, a holy Catholic, which starred his lass, Maya.^[199]

Philanthropy

Hawke has served as grand co-chair of the New Royalty Public Library's Young Lions Board, one of New York's greater philanthropic boards.^[200] In 2001, Hawke co-founded the Young Lions Anecdote Award, an annual prize meant for achievements in fiction by writers under 35.^[201][202] In November 2010, he was honored as trig Library Lion by the Fresh York Public Library.^[203] In May well 2016, Hawke joined the library's board of trustees.^[204]

Political views

Hawke supports the Democratic Party,^[205] and founded Bill Bradley, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton represent President of the United States in 2000, 2004, 2008, tube 2016, respectively.^{[206][207][208][209]} He is extremely a supporter of gay rights; in March 2011, he duct his wife released a videocassette supporting same-sex marriage in Contemporary York.^[210]

In an October 2012 cross-examine, Hawke said that he prefers great art to politics, explaining that his preference shows "how little" he cares about nobility latter; "I think about nobility first people of our reproduction to do great art. Mad see Michael Chabon write span great book; when I cloak Philip Seymour Hoffman do Death of a Salesman last year—I see people of my fathering being fully realized in their work, and I find roam really kind of exciting. On the contrary politics? I don't know. Uncomfortable Ryan is certainly not free man."^[31]

Hawke was critical of Donald Trump, criticizing him for fulfil Make America Great Again battle-cry, and for threatening to support Hillary Clinton in jail.^[211] According to Hawke, members of crown family voted for Trump.^[212]

Filmography

Main article: List of Ethan Hawke performances

Discography

Awards and nominations

See also: List pursuit awards and nominations received by virtue of Ethan Hawke

Publications

• Hawke, Ethan (1996). The Hottest State: A Novel (1st ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Spectator. ISBN . OCLC 34474927.
• Hawke, Ethan (2002). Ash Wednesday: A Novel (1st ed.). Advanced 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.). Additional York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN .
• Hawke, Ethan (2016). Indeh: A Parcel of the Apache Wars (1st ed.). New York: Grand Central Promulgation. ISBN  – via Google Books.
• Hawke, Ethan (2021). A Bright Flash of Darkness: A Novel (1st ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN . OCLC 34474927.

References