Ethan Hawke

BIOGRAPHY

An American actor, director, and novelist, Ethan Green Hawke is best known for starring in critically and commercially acclaimed films like Training Day, Hamlet and Boyhood. In addition to his acting work, he has directed a few feature films and Off-Broadway plays. A novelist in his own right, Hawke wrote books like the Hottest State (1996), Ash Wednesday (2002) and the epistolary fable Rules for a Knight (2015). He also penned the screenplay of romantic movies like Before Sunset and Before Midnight for which he received an Academy Award nomination in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay.
Did you Know?
Ethen Hawke was the original choice to play FBI Agent Will Graham in Red Dragon (2002) but turned the role down to take time off from movie.

Ethen Hawke was the original choice to play FBI Agent Will Graham in Red Dragon (2002) but turned the role down to take time off from movies.

Twice during his 20s he took a two-year leave of absence, once to go to NYU and study English (he dropped out when a part came up), and then to write a novel.

In Before Sunset (2004) (which he co-wrote with Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater), Hawke`s character Jesse is in a failing marriage with a woman he married because she had become pregnant. Soon after the film`s release, Hawke divorced his real-life wife Uma Thurman, whom he had married while she was pregnant with their first child.

Hawke`s cat appeared in the Lisa Loeb music video ``Stay``, which he directed.