Ethan Hawke

Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, writer and director. Nominated four times for Academy Awards, both as an actor and a writer, Hawke has also been nominated for a Tony Award, and has directed two feature films, three Off-Broadway plays, and a documentary. He also wrote the novels The Hottest State (1996) and Ash Wednesday (2002).
==Early life==
Born in Austin, Texas, to high school sweethearts James and Leslie Hawke, his mother was a charity worker, and his father an insurance actuary. His parents married young, when Hawke's mother was 17, and Ethan was born a year later. Hawke's parents were students at the University of Texas at Austin at the time of his birth, and separated and later divorced in 1974.
After his parents' divorce in 1974, Hawke was then raised by his mother. After relocating several times before settling in New York City, Hawke attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights. His mother remarried when he was 10, at which time the family moved to West Windsor Township, New Jersey where Hawke attended West Windsor Plainsboro High School (now West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South). Later, Hawke transferred to the Hun School of Princeton, a secondary boarding school, from which he graduated in 1988.
Hawke aspired to be a writer during his formative years, but in high school he developed an interest in acting. At age 13 he made his stage debut in a school production of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, and also appeared in West Windsor-Plainsboro High School productions of "Meet Me in St. Louis", and "You Can't Take It with You". While at the Hun School he took acting classes at the McCarter Theatre on the Princeton campus, and after graduation he studied acting at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He eventually dropping out after he was cast in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. He enrolled in New York University's English program on two separate occasions, but dropped out in both cases in order to pursue acting roles.
==Filmography==
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1985	Explorers 	Ben Crandall 	Nominated— Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actor in a Feature Film
1988	Lion's Den 	Chris 	
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	Reality Bites 	Troy Dyer 	Nominated— MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (Shared with Winona Ryder)
1994	Floundering 	Jimmy 	
1994	White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf 	Jack Conroy 	
1995	Before Sunrise 	Jesse Wallace 	Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (Shared with [[Julie Delpy)
1995	Search and Destroy 	Roger 	
1997	Gattaca 	Vincent Anton Freeman / Jerome Morrow	
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 	Jake Hoyt 	
2002	The Jimmy Show 	Ray 	
2004	Taking Lives 	James Costa / Martin Asher 	
2004	Before Sunset 	Jesse Wallace 	
2005	Assault on Precinct 13 	Sergeant Jake Roenick 	
2005	Lord of War 	Agent Jack Valentine 	
2006	The Hottest State 	Vince 	
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
2009	New York, I Love You 	Writer 	
2009	Staten Island 	Sully Halverson 	
2009	Corso: The Last Beat 	Narrator / Himself 	Documentary
2009	Daybreakers 	Edward Dalton 	
2010	Brooklyn's Finest 	Detective Salvatore "Sal" Procida 	
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 	
2013	The Purge 	James Sandin 	Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance
2013	Getaway 	Brent Magna 	
2014	Boyhood 	Mason Sr. 	
2014	Predestination 	The Barkeep / Temporal Agent 	
2014	Cymbeline 	Iachimo 	
2014	Good Kill 	Major Thomas Egan 	
2015	Seymour: An Introduction 	Himself 	Documentary
2015	Ten Thousand Saints 	Les 	
2015	Maggie's Plan 	John 	
2015	Born to Be Blue 	Chet Baker 	
2015	Regression 	Bruce Kenner 	
2016	In a Valley of Violence 	Paul 	
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 	
2018	Juliet, Naked 	Tucker Crowe 	
2018	Blaze 	Radio DJ 	Also writer and director
2018	Stockholm 	Kaj Hansson / Lars Nystrom 	
2019	The Kid 	Pat Garrett 	
2019	Adopt a Highway 	Russell Millings 	
2019	Cut Throat City 	Jackson Symms 	Post-production
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