ETHAN
HAWKE

Ethan Hawke is an American actor, writer and director born in Austin, Texas, on 6 November 1970. Across a career spanning film and theater, he has moved between intimate character studies and larger productions while also writing and directing.

After his screen debut in Explorers (1985), Hawke gained wider recognition in Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society (1989). As Todd Anderson, he plays a student learning to find his voice in an exacting school environment.

His collaboration with director Richard Linklater and co-star Julie Delpy began with Before Sunrise (1995), in which Jesse and Céline meet on a train and spend time together in Vienna. The characters returned in Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013); Hawke and Delpy also shared screenplay credit on the two sequels.

In Training Day (2001), Hawke plays a rookie police officer paired with Denzel Washington’s veteran detective. The role brought him an Academy Award nomination for supporting actor and showed a different intensity from the conversational intimacy of the Before films.

Linklater’s Boyhood (2014), filmed over twelve years, gave Hawke another supporting-actor Oscar nomination for his role as the father of a growing boy. His work also includes directing, writing and the troubled pastor at the center of First Reformed (2017).