He made his stage debut at age 13, in a production at The McCarter Theatre of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. In high school, Hawke aspired to be a writer, but developed an interest in acting. He later transferred to the Hun School of Princeton, a secondary boarding school, from which he graduated in 1988. There, Hawke attended the public West Windsor Plainsboro High School (renamed to West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South in 1997). Hawke's mother remarried when he was 10 and the family moved to West Windsor Township, New Jersey. The two relocated several times, before settling in New York City, where Hawke attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights. Īfter the separation, Hawke was raised by his mother. They separated and later divorced in 1974, when he was four years old. Hawke's parents were both students at the University of Texas at Austin at the time of his birth. Hawke's parents were high school sweethearts in Fort Worth, Texas, and married young, when Hawke's mother was 17. Hawke was born on Novemin Austin, Texas, to Leslie (née Green), a charity worker, and James Hawke, an insurance actuary. In 2018, he starred in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Sam Shepard's play True West. 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. 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 addition to his film work, Hawke has appeared in many theater productions. He starred in the Marvel television miniseries Moon Knight (2022) as Arthur Harrow. He 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). Hawke directed the narrative films Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest State (2006), and Blaze (2018) as well as the documentary Seymour: An Introduction (2014). 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 Black Phone (2021) and The Northman (2022). Hawke received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Training Day (2001) and Boyhood (2014) and two for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy from 1995 to 2013.
He made his film debut in Explorers (1985), before making a breakthrough performance in Dead Poets Society (1989).
He has received numerous nominations including for four Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award. Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, author and film director.
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