Ethan Hawke

Birth Place: Austin, TX, USA

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Ethan Hawke is a Tony and four-time Academy Award nominated actor and writer whose diverse career as a novelist, actor, director, and screenwriter spans more than three decades. Hawke recently premiered “BLAZE” at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category, a drama he produced, co-wrote and directed about the life of country western musician Blaze Foley. The film received rave reviews and won the Special Jury Award for actor Ben Dickey’s spellbinding performance. Hawke stars alongside Rose Byrne and Chris O’Dowd in the Judd Apatow-produced romantic comedy, “Juliet, Naked,” based on the best-selling Nick Hornby novel of the same name. Directed by Jesse Peretz, the film also premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and will be released by Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate. He also stars in Paul Schrader’s long-awaited and timely political and environmental thriller “First Reformed.” The film premiered at the 2017 Venice International Film Festival before making its way to Telluride and Toronto while garnering Hawke some of the best reviews of his career as an actor. A24 acquired the film and will release it on June 22, 2018.

Hawke’s critically-acclaimed performances and collaboration with friend and filmmaker Richard Linklater in “Before Sunrise,” “Before Sunset,” and “Before Midnight” opposite Julie Delpy have become a landmark in American independent film. Hawke, Linklater and Delpy co-wrote the screenplays for "Before Sunset" and “Before Midnight” and received Academy Award and Independent Spirit Award nominations for both scripts. The trio were honored with the Louis XIII Genius Award for achievement in cinematic works for the "Before" films at the BFCA Critics Choice Awards. Hawke has collaborated with Linklater on multiple occasions, including "Fast Food Nation;" "Waking Life;" "The Newton Boys" and "Tape."

Their most recent collaboration, "Boyhood," premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released by IFC that summer. Hawke starred alongside Patricia Arquette and Ellar Coltrane in the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking film that was shot intermittently over 12 years chronicling the life of a child from age 6-18. For his performance, Ethan received Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, Film Independent Spirit Award, Critics’ Choice Film Award, and Gotham Independent Spirit Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.

Throughout his career, Hawke has starred in over 50 films including “Reality Bites;” “Good Kill;” “Predestination;” “The Purge;” "Explorers;" "White Fang;" "Gattaca;" "Great Expectations;" "Hamlet;" "What Doesn't Kill You;" "Brooklyn's Finest;" "Sinister;" “Maudie,” “Maggie’s Plan,” “The Magnificent Seven,” “The Phenom,” “In a Valley of Violence” “Born to Be Blue.” and "Before The Devil Knows You're Dead." Hawke received Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Supporting Actor nominations for his work in Antoine Fuqua's "Training Day," opposite Denzel Washington. Behind the lens, Hawke made his directorial debut in 2001 with his drama "Chelsea Walls." Additionally, he directed Josh Hamilton in the short film "Straight to One," a story of a couple, young and in love, living in the Chelsea Hotel.

He made his documentary directorial debut with “Seymour: An Introduction,” which premiered at the 2014 Telluride Film Festival and later played internationally at the Toronto International Film Festival. The project follows the life of the legendary pianist and piano teacher Seymour Bernstein.

A noted writer and novelist, Hawke’s graphic novel, Indeh with illustrator Greg Ruth was published by Grand Central Publishing on June 7, 2016. Indeh captures the narrative of two nations at war who strive to find peace and forgiveness in a time of great upheaval. It debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List for Hardcover Graphic Novels. In 2015, Hawke released his first children’s book Rules for a Knight which features illustrations by his wife, Ryan Hawke. The New York Times best-seller is framed as a long-lost document, recently found and republished by Hawke, a distant relative of the knight, Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke.

In addition to his work as a novelist, in April 2009, Hawke wrote an in-depth and celebrated profile of icon Kris Kristofferson for Rolling Stone. In 2002, his second novel, Ash Wednesday, was published by Knopf and was chosen for Bloomsbury's contemporary classics series. In 1996, Hawke wrote his first novel, The Hottest State, published by Little Brown and now in its nineteenth printing. In his sophomore directorial endeavor, Hawke adapted for the screen and directed the on-screen version of "The Hottest State" and also directed a music video for the film, featuring Lisa Loeb. At the age of twenty-one, Hawke founded the Malaparte Theater Co., which gave young artists a home to develop their craft for more than five years.

The next year, in 1992, Hawke made his Broadway debut in "The Seagull." Additionally, he has appeared in "Henry IV" alongside Richard Easton on Broadway; "Buried Child" (Steppenwolf); "Hurlyburly," for which he earned a Lucille Lortel Award Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor and Drama League Award Nomination for Distinguished Performance (The New Group); Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia," for which he was honored with a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Drama League Award nomination for Distinguished Performance (Lincoln Center); the inaugural season of The Bridge Project's double billings of "The Cherry Orchard" and "A Winter's Tale," for which Hawke received a Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Old Vic); and "Blood From A Stone" (The New Group) which earned him a 2011 Obie Award for Performance.

In 2007, Hawke made his Off-Broadway directing debut with the world premiere of Jonathan Marc Sherman's dark comedy, "Things We Want". In 2010, Hawke directed Sam Shepard's "A Lie of the Mind," for which he received a Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play as well as recognition in the New York Times and The New Yorker top ten lists of the leading theatre productions in 2010. In 2012, he starred in Chekov's "Ivanov" for the Classic Stage Company. In 2013, he directed and starred in "Clive," a stage adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's "Baal," by Jonathan Marc Sherman (The New Group), and completed a successful run of Lincoln Center Theatre's production of “Macbeth” in the title role. Hawke resides in New York and is married with four children.

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Ethan Hawke STAGE CREDITS

[Broadway]
Roundabout Theatre Company Broadway Production, 2018
Lee

[Broadway]
Lincoln Center Production, 2013
Macbeth

[Off-Broadway]
The New Group Production, 2013
Clive

[Off-Broadway]
Classic Stage Company Production, 2012
Nikolai Ivanov

[Off-Broadway]
The New Group Production, 2011
Travis

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 2007
Michael Bakunin

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 2006
Michael Bakunin

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 2006
Michael Bakunin

[Off-Broadway]
2005
Eddie

[Broadway]
Lincoln Center Revival, 2003
Henry Percy

[Off-Broadway]
2001
Ray Moss

[Off-Broadway]
1993
Xavier "Ex" Reynolds

Xavier Ex Reynolds

[Broadway]
1992
Konstantin Treplev

Ethan Hawke Productions

 
[Off-Broadway, 2013]
Director
 
[Off-Broadway, 2007]
Director

Ethan Hawke Movies

Explorers
[ 1985 ] Ben Crandall
Dad
[ 1989 ] Billy
Dead Poets Society
[ 1989 ] Todd Anderson
Mystery Date
[ 1991 ] Tom McHugh
White Fang
[ 1991 ] Jack
Rich in Love
[ 1992 ] Wayne Frobiness
A Midnight Clear
[ 1992 ] Sgt. Will Knott
Waterland
[ 1992 ] Matthew Price
Alive
[ 1993 ] Nando Parrado
Floundering
[ 1994 ] Jimmy
Reality Bites
[ 1994 ] Troy Dyer
Search and Destroy
[ 1995 ] Roger
Before Sunrise
[ 1995 ] Jesse
Gattaca
[ 1997 ] Vincent, Jerome
The Velocity of Gary
[ 1998 ] Nat
Great Expectations
[ 1998 ] Finnegan Bell
The Newton Boys
[ 1998 ] Jess Newton
Joe the King
[ 1999 ] Len Coles
Snow Falling on Cedars
[ 1999 ] Ishmael Chambers
Hamlet
[ 2000 ] Hamlet
Tape
[ 2001 ] Vin
The Jimmy Show
[ 2001 ] Ray
Waking Life
[ 2001 ] Jesse
Training Day
[ 2001 ] Jake
Taking Lives
[ 2004 ] Costa
Before Sunset
[ 2004 ] Jesse
Assault on Precinct 13
[ 2005 ] Sgt. Jake Roenick
Lord of War
[ 2005 ] Jack Valentine
The Hottest State
[ 2006 ] Vince
Fast Food Nation
[ 2006 ] Pete
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
[ 2007 ] Hank
What Doesn't Kill You
[ 2008 ] Paulie McDougan
Brooklyn's Finest
[ 2009 ] Sal
Daybreakers
[ 2009 ] Edward Dalton
Little New York
[ 2009 ] Sully Halverson
The Woman in the Fifth
[ 2011 ] Tom Ricks
Sinister
[ 2012 ] Ellison Oswalt
The Purge
[ 2013 ] James Sandin
Getaway
[ 2013 ] Brent Magna
Before Midnight
[ 2013 ] Jesse
Boyhood
[ 2014 ] Dad
Predestination
[ 2014 ] The Barkeep
Cymbeline
[ 2014 ] Iachimo
Good Kill
[ 2014 ] Major Thom Egan
Born to Be Blue
[ 2015 ] Chet Baker
Regression
[ 2015 ] Bruce Kenner
Ten Thousand Saints
[ 2015 ] Les
Maggie's Plan
[ 2015 ] John
The Magnificent Seven
[ 2016 ] Goodnight Robicheaux
The Phenom
[ 2016 ] Hopper Senior
Maudie
[ 2016 ] Everett Lewis
In a Valley of Violence
[ 2016 ] Paul
First Reformed
[ 2017 ] Rev. Ernst Toller
24 Hours to Live
[ 2017 ] Travis Conrad
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
[ 2017 ] Jolly the Pimp
Juliet, Naked
[ 2018 ] Tucker Crowe
Blaze
[ 2018 ] Radio DJ
Stockholm
[ 2018 ] Lars Nystrom
The Truth
[ 2019 ] Hank
The Kid
[ 2019 ] Sheriff Pat Garrett
Adopt a Highway
[ 2019 ] Russell Millings
Cut Throat City
[ 2020 ] Jackson Symms
Tesla
[ 2020 ] Nikola Tesla
The Black Phone
[ 2021 ] The Grabber
The Guilty
[ 2021 ] SGT. Bill Miller
Zeros and Ones
[ 2021 ] JJ, Justin
Waiting for Godot
[ 2021 ] Vladimir
Raymond & Ray
[ 2022 ] Ray
The Northman
[ 2022 ] King Aurvandil War-Raven
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
[ 2022 ] Efficient Man

Ethan Hawke Awards and Nominations

Drama League Awards - 2019 - Distinguished Performance Award

Ethan Hawke, True West


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Obie Awards - 2011 - Performance

Ethan Hawke, Blood From a Stone

Drama Desk Awards - 2010 - Outstanding Director of a Play

Ethan HawkeA Lie of the Mind

Drama Desk Awards - 2009 - Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

Ethan Hawke, The Winter's Tale

Tony Awards - 2007 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Ethan Hawke, The Coast of Utopia

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Grand Jury and Audience Award Films Announced at 27th Sonoma International Film Festival

Luminaries such as Golden Globe®-winner Beau Bridges, actor/director John Cameron Mitchell, actor Scoot McNairy, chef Susan Feniger, musician Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation, and more than 150 filmmakers, distinguished press, and industry guests converged on the award-winning wine country film festival March 20-24.

Justin Peck's ILLINOISE Will Transfer to Broadway This Spring

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Illinoise, which is currently playing at Park Avenue Armory will transfer to Broadway.

The Public Theater to Present Gala Honoring HELL'S KITCHEN

The Public’s Annual Gala will take place on Wednesday, May 8 with a special performance of HELL’S KITCHEN on Broadway. Learn more about the gala!

Maggie Siff, Julie Halston & More to Star in BREAKING THE STORY at Second Stage

Second Stage Theater has revealed the complete cast for the world premiere production of a new play by Alexis Scheer, BREAKING THE STORY. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

Jim Gaffigan Comes to the Eccles in October

 Live at the Eccles will present JIM GAFFIGAN on October 24 & 25, 2024 at the Eccles Theater on Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City.

The Lower East Side Film Festival Announces May Dates in New York City

Along with its usual array of exclusive feature film premieres, specialty short showcases, industry panels, and parties, this year's festival will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of 1999 - the Greatest Year of Movies - Ever! with special screenings of Cruel Intentions with Director, Roger Kumble attending, But I'm A Cheerleader and American Movie.

Jim Gaffigan To Return To Encore Theater At Wynn Las Vegas With BARELY ALIVE Tour

Jim Gaffigan, has revealed new dates for his 2024 Barely Alive Tour, including four additional shows at Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas. Learn how to purchase tickets.

CSC and the Coolidge to Present SHAKESPEARE REIMAGINED: A MIDWINTER'S TALE This Month

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Coolidge Corner Theatre present Shakespeare Reimagined: A MIDWINTER’S TALE, a new production written and directed by Kenneth Branagh. This article provides details about the upcoming performance on Thursday, February 29 at 7 PM.

The New Group Off Stage to Stream LYPSINKA: TOXIC FEMININITY Directed by Chloë Sevigny

THE NEW GROUP OFF STAGE presents 'Lypsinka: Toxic Femininity,' a new short film written and performed by John Epperson and directed by Chloë Sevigny.

Classical Theatre of Harlem Dedicates 2024 Season to Andre Braugher

On Monday, December 18th, 2023 The Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH), hosted a night of holiday entertainment hosted by actor Ethan Hawke. The theatre's annual show was dedicated to longtime trustee Andre Braugher who sadly recently passed away. CTH will be dedicating their entire 2024 season to the actor.

The Coolidge Corner Theatre Announces Winter / Spring 2024 Lineup Of Weekly Kids' Shows

The Coolidge Corner Theatre (‘the Coolidge') has announced the winter/spring 2024 lineup of its weekly Kids' Shows. Sure to delight all ages, the new season launches on Sunday, January 7 at 10:30am with a live performance by The Stacey Peasley Band.

Coolidge Corner Theatre to Launch New Season of Opera and Ballet

The Coolidge Corner Theatre (‘the Coolidge’) has revealed the lineup for its Winter / Spring 2024 Dance at the Cinema and Opera at the Cinema series. 

Meet the Cast of DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES, Beginning Previews on Broadway Tonight!

Following the critically acclaimed, sold out run at Atlantic Theater Company, Days of Wine and Roses opens on Broadway on Sunday, January 28, 2024 at Studio 54. This limited 16-week engagement begins previews tonight, January 6, 2024. Meet the cast of Days of Wine and Roses here!

Robbie Fairchild, Ricky Ubeda & More to Star in Justin Peck & Jackie Sibblies Drury's ILLINOISE at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has revealed the cast of the highly anticipated Illinoise, a new kind of musical based on Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed concept album.

Ethan Hawke Will Host Brandon Victor Dixon's HERE FOR THE HOLIDAYS Perforamnce

Classical Theatre of Harlem has announcedthat board member Ethan Hawke will host the upcoming Brandon Victor Dixon’s intimate holiday concert.

Ethan Hawke to Host Brandon Victor Dixon's HERE FOR THE HOLIDAYS Concert at Ginny's Supper Club

CTH announces Ethan Hawke as host of Brandon Victor Dixon’s ‘Here for the Holidays’ concert at Red Rooster. Join CTH and Brandon Victor Dixon for an intimate holiday concert on December 18th at Ginny's Supper Club. Limited standing room tickets available.

FOR YEARS TO COME TV Pilot To Return To NYC In Dances With Films

'For Years to Come' TV Pilot Returns to NYC in Dances With Films. Don't miss the romantic dramedy starring Richard Riehle from 'Office Space.' The pilot has been a hit at multiple festivals and is now screening in New York.

Full Cast Set For DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES, Starring Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James

Complete casting has been announced for the Broadway premiere of Days of Wine and Roses, starring Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James. Learn more about who else is in the cast here!

Wake Up With BroadwayWorld November 07th, 2023

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is  November 07, 2023 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Coolidge Corner Theatre to Present 'Big Screen Debuts' Series Featuring Films by Renowned Auteurs

Explore the Coolidge Corner Theatre's 'Big Screen Debuts' series, featuring the first feature films of renowned directors such as The Coen Brothers, Sofia Coppola, Barry Jenkins, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, and Satyajit Ray. Don't miss this opportunity to witness the early works of these iconic filmmakers at the newly-expanded Coolidge theater.

Ethan Hawke FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many Broadway shows has Ethan Hawke been in?

Ethan Hawke has appeared on Broadway in 7 shows.

How many West End shows has Ethan Hawke been in?

Ethan Hawke has not appeared in the West End.

What awards has Ethan Hawke been nominated for?

Ethan Hawke has been nominated for several awards throughout his career, including the Distinguished Performance Award at the Drama League Awards for "True West", a Performance nomination at the Obie Awards for "Blood From a Stone", an Outstanding Director of a Play nomination at the Drama Desk Awards for "A Lie of the Mind", an Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play nomination at the Drama Desk Awards for "The Winter's Tale", and a Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play nomination at the Tony Awards for "The Coast of Utopia".

What awards has Ethan Hawke won?

Ethan Hawke has won the Performance Obie Award for his role in the play "Blood From a Stone."

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