Ethan Hawke

Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, author and film director. He is known for his versatility across a wide range of roles, starring in both blockbusters and independent films. In a career on both stage and screen spanning more than four decades, Hawke has received numerous accolades, including a Daytime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a British Academy Film Award and a Tony Award.

Hawke made his film debut at age fourteen in ''Explorers'' (1985) and gained wider recognition for his role as a student in ''Dead Poets Society'' (1989). During the 1990s, he established himself as a leading man with Ben Stiller's ''Reality Bites'' (1994), Andrew Niccol's ''Gattaca'' (1997), and Alfonso Cuarón's ''Great Expectations'' (1998). He earned a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for portraying a rookie police officer in the crime thriller ''Training Day'' (2001). Hawke collaborated with Richard Linklater in the acclaimed ''Before'' trilogy (1995–2013). The latter two films garnered him two Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations. Hawke starred in Linklater's coming-of-age drama ''Boyhood'' (2014), earning nominations for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Hawke achieved commercial success in films ''Sinister'' (2012), ''The Purge'' (2013), ''The Magnificent Seven'' (2016), and ''The Black Phone'' (2021), and saw critical acclaim for his roles in ''Maudie'' (2016) and ''First Reformed'' (2017). Hawke has directed the narrative films ''Chelsea Walls'' (2001), ''The Hottest State'' (2006), and ''Blaze'' (2018), as well as the documentary ''Seymour: An Introduction'' (2014) and the documentary series ''The Last Movie Stars'' (2022). He portrayed abolitionist John Brown in the miniseries ''The Good Lord Bird'' (2020), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, and appeared as Arthur Harrow in the Marvel miniseries ''Moon Knight'' (2022).

Hawke has appeared in many theater productions. He made 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, he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for directing Sam Shepard's ''A Lie of the Mind''. Divorced from actress Uma Thurman, he has been married to Ryan Shawhughes since 2008; he has two children from each marriage, including actors Maya Hawke and Levon Hawke. Provided by Wikipedia