# List of Ethan Hawke performances

American actor, film director and author Ethan Hawke made his debut in 1985 with the science fantasy film Explorers (1985). He then had his breakthrough performance in the 1989 drama film Dead Poets Society opposite Robin Williams. He starred in the 1990s films White Fang (1991) and its sequel (1994); Reality Bites with Winona Ryder (1994), Gattaca with Uma Thurman (1997), and Great Expectations with Gwyneth Paltrow (1998). He co-starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013). He and Delpy also co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater for the last two films.
During the 2000s, Hawke starred in numerous blockbuster films including Training Day opposite Denzel Washington (2001), Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie (2004), Lord of War with Nicolas Cage (2005), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead with Philip Seymour Hoffman (2007), and Brooklyn's Finest with Richard Gere (2009). He co-starred, wrote and directed the 2006 film The Hottest State, based on his 1996 novel of the same name. In 2012, Hawke starred in the supernatural horror film Sinister (2012) and the next year he starred in The Purge with Lena Headey, the first installment in The Purge franchise. He teamed up again with Linklater for the film Boyhood, which was released in 2014 but production began in 2002 and finished in 2013, with Linklater's goal to make a film about growing up. Hawke played Mason Evans Sr., the father to the main character. The following years, Hawke co-starred in the films Maggie's Plan (2015), Born to Be Blue (2015), The Magnificent Seven (2016), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), Juliet, Naked (2018), The Black Phone (2021) and The Northman (2022).
Hawke created, co-wrote and starred as John Brown in the Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird (2018), and directed the HBO Max documentary series The Last Movie Stars (2022). He starred in the Marvel television miniseries Moon Knight (2022) as Arthur Harrow.
In addition to his film work, Hawke has appeared in many theater productions, making his Broadway debut in 1992 in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2007 for his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. In 2010, Hawke directed Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play. In 2018, he starred in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Sam Shepard's play True West alongside Paul Dano.

## Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1985 | Explorers | Ben Crandall | |
| 1988 | Lion's Den | Chris | Short film |
| 1989 | Dead Poets Society | Todd Anderson | |
| 1989 | Dad | Billy Tremont | |
| 1991 | White Fang | Jack Conroy | |
| 1991 | Mystery Date | Tom McHugh | |
| 1992 | Waterland | Mathew Price | |
| 1992 | A Midnight Clear | Will Knott | |
| 1993 | Rich in Love | Wayne Frobiness | |
| 1993 | Alive | Nando Parrado | |
| 1994 | Straight to One | — | Short film; writer, director and producer only |
| 1994 | Quiz Show | Don Quixote student | Uncredited cameo |
| 1994 | Reality Bites | Troy Dyer | |
| 1994 | Floundering | Jimmy | |
| 1994 | White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf | Jack Conroy | Uncredited cameo |
| 1995 | Before Sunrise | Jesse Wallace | |
| 1995 | Search and Destroy | Roger | |
| 1997 | Gattaca | Vincent Freeman | |
| 1998 | Great Expectations | Finnegan 'Finn' Bell | |
| 1998 | The Newton Boys | Jess Newton | |
| 1999 | The Velocity of Gary | Nat | |
| 1999 | Joe the King | Len Coles | |
| 1999 | Snow Falling on Cedars | Ishmael Chambers | |
| 2000 | Hamlet | Hamlet | |
| 2001 | Waking Life | Jesse Wallace | |
| 2001 | Tape | Vince | |
| 2001 | Training Day | Detective Jake Hoyt | |
| 2001 | Chelsea Walls | Sam (voice) | Uncredited; also director |
| 2002 | The Jimmy Show | Ray | |
| 2004 | Taking Lives | Martin Asher / James Costa | |
| 2004 | Before Sunset | Jesse Wallace | Also writer |
| 2005 | Assault on Precinct 13 | Sergeant Jake Roenick | |
| 2005 | Lord of War | ATF Agent Jack Valentine | |
| 2005 | One Last Thing... | Earl Jameison | Uncredited cameo |
| 2006 | The Hottest State | Vince | Also writer and director |
| 2006 | Fast Food Nation | Pete | |
| 2007 | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Hank Hanson | |
| 2008 | What Doesn't Kill You | Paulie McDougan | |
| 2008 | Chelsea on the Rocks | Himself | Documentary |
| 2008 | New York, I Love You | Writer | |
| 2009 | Brooklyn's Finest | Detective Sal Procida | |
| 2009 | Staten Island | 'Sully' Halverson | |
| 2009 | Corso: The Last Beat | Narrator / Himself | Documentary |
| 2009 | Daybreakers | Edward Dalton | |
| 2011 | The Woman in the Fifth | Tom Ricks | |
| 2012 | Total Recall | Carl Hauser | Director's cut only |
| 2012 | Sinister | Ellison Oswalt | |
| 2012 | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | Pat (voice) | Documentary |
| 2013 | Before Midnight | Jesse Wallace | Also writer |
| 2013 | The Purge | James Sandin | |
| 2013 | Getaway | Brent Magna | |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Mason Evans Sr. | |
| 2014 | Predestination | Agent Doe | |
| 2014 | Cymbeline | Iachimo | |
| 2014 | Good Kill | Major Tommy Egan | |
| 2014 | Seymour: An Introduction | Himself | Documentary; also director |
| 2015 | Ten Thousand Saints | Les Keffy | |
| 2015 | Maggie's Plan | John Harding | |
| 2015 | Born to Be Blue | Chet Baker | |
| 2015 | Regression | Bruce Kenner | |
| 2016 | In a Valley of Violence | Paul | |
| 2016 | The Phenom | Hopper Gibson Sr. | |
| 2016 | Invasion! | Cosmos (voice) | Short film |
| 2016 | Maudie | Everett Lewis | |
| 2016 | The Magnificent Seven | 'Goodnight' Robicheaux | |
| 2017 | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | 'Jolly' The Pimp | |
| 2017 | First Reformed | Reverend Ernst Toller | |
| 2017 | 24 Hours to Live | Travis Conrad | |
| 2017 | Dark | Narrator | Uncredited |
| 2018 | Juliet, Naked | Tucker Crowe | |
| 2018 | Blaze | Radio DJ | Cameo; also writer, director and producer |
| 2018 | Stockholm | Kaj Hansson / Lars Nystrom | |
| 2019 | The Kid | Pat Garrett | |
| 2019 | Adopt a Highway | Russell Millings | Also producer |
| 2019 | The Truth | Hank | |
| 2020 | Tesla | Nikola Tesla | |
| 2020 | Cut Throat City | Jackson Symms | |
| 2021 | Zeros and Ones | JJ | |
| 2021 | The Guilty | Sergeant Bill Miller (voice) | |
| 2021 | The Black Phone | The Grabber | |
| 2022 | The Northman | King Aurvandill | |
| 2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Efficient Man | Cameo |
| 2022 | Raymond & Ray | Ray | |
| 2023 | Strange Way of Life | Jake | Short film |
| 2023 | Wildcat | — | Writer, director and producer only |
| 2023 | Leave the World Behind | Clay Sandford | |
| 2025 | Blue Moon † | Lorenz Hart | Post-production |
| 2025 | The Black Phone 2 † | The Grabber | Post-production |
| TBA | Tonight at Noon † | Lefty | Post-production |
| TBA | The Weight † | Samuel Murphy | Pre-production |
Key :
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |

## Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2003 | Alias | CIA Agent James L. Lennox | Episode: "Double Agent" |
| 2007 | Robot Chicken | Godzilla Junior / Jason | Voice, episode: "Squaw Bury Shortcake" |
| 2011 | Moby Dick | Starbuck | Miniseries |
| 2019 | The Purge | James Sandin | Episode: "7:01am" |
| 2020 | The Good Lord Bird | John Brown | Lead role; also creator, writer and executive producer |
| 2022 | Moon Knight | Arthur Harrow | Main role |
| 2022 | The Last Movie Stars | Himself | Documentary series; also director |
| 2022–present | Batwheels | Batman | Main voice role |
| 2023 | Reservation Dogs | Rick Miller | Episode: "Elora's Dad" |
| TBA | The Sensitive Kind | TBA | Upcoming series; also executive producer |

## Theater

| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Notes |
| 1991 | Casanova | Young Casanova | The Public Theater | |
| 1992–1993 | The Seagull | Konstantin Treplev | Lyceum Theatre | |
| 1993 | Sophistry | Xavier 'Ex' Reynolds | Playwrights Horizons | |
| 1999 | Camino Real | Kilroy | Williamstown Theatre Festival | |
| 2001 | The Late Henry Moss | Ray Moss | Peter Norton Space | |
| 2003–2004 | Henry IV | Henry Percy | Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway | |
| 2005 | Hurlyburly | Eddie | Acorn Theatre | |
| 2006–2007 | The Coast of Utopia | Michael Bakunin | Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway | |
| 2007 | Things We Want | N/A | Acorn Theatre | Director only |
| 2009 | The Cherry Orchard | Peter Trofimov | BAM Harvey Theater | |
| 2009 | The Winter's Tale | Autolycus | The Old Vic / International tour | |
| 2010 | A Lie of the Mind | N/A | Acorn Theatre | Director only |
| 2011 | Blood From a Stone | Travis | Acorn Theatre | |
| 2012 | Ivanov | Nikolai Ivanov | Classic Stage Company | |
| 2013 | Clive | Clive | Acorn Theatre | Also director |
| 2013–2014 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway | |
| 2019 | True West | Lee | American Airlines Theatre, Broadway | |

## Music videos

| Year | Title | Artist | Ref. |
| 2024 | "Fortnight" | Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone | |