Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer, and director. He made his film debut with the 1985 science fiction feature Explorers. He starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight. 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. In 2013, he received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a man who loses his wife in a car accident.
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Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer, and director. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards and a Tony Award. He made his film debut with the 1985 science fiction feature Explorers. He starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight. In 2018, he garnered critical acclaim for his performance as a Protestant minister in Paul Schrader’s drama First Reformed. 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. Hawke has also written three novels and one graphic novel. He was born in Austin, Texas, to Leslie, a charity worker, and James Hawke, an insurance actuary. His mother remarried when he was 10 and the family moved to West Windsor Township, New Jersey. He studied acting at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, dropping out after he was cast in Dead Poets Society. He enrolled in New York University’s English program for two years, but dropped out to pursue other acting roles. In high school, he made his stage debut at age 13, in a production at The McCarter Theatre of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan. He also performed in West Windsor-Plainsboro High School productions of Meet Me in St. Louis and You Can’t Take It with You. He attended the public West Windsor Plainsboro high School. He later transferred to the Hun School of Princeton, a secondary boarding school, from which he graduated in 1988.
He is a graduate of the University of New York’s prestigious Graduate School of Dramatic Arts. He currently lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children, and lives in New Jersey with his mother and two stepfathers. He works as a freelance writer and has written several books, including Hamlet and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. His first film role was in Joe Dante’s Explorers, in which he played an alien-obsessed schoolboy alongside River Phoenix. His other films include the science fiction drama Gattaca, the contemporary adaptation of Hamlet, the action thriller Assault on Precinct 13, Sidney Lumet’s crime drama before the Devilknows You’re Dead, and the horror film Sinister. In 2008, he starred in the Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of Sam Shepard’s play True West alongside Paul Dano. He won a BAFTA Award and an Academy Award for Best Film for Best Picture for The Best Picture and Best Actor for Boyhood. He received a nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role in Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia in 2007. In 2009, he was nominated for a Tony award for hisperformance in The Seagull. In 2012, he won a Golden Globe Award for his work in A Lie Of The Mind. In 2013, he received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a man who loses his wife in a car accident.
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