Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke is an American actor, author, and film director. He made his breakthrough performance in Dead Poets Society in 1989, and starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy from 1995 to 2013. Hawke received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Training Day and Boyhood and two for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Before Sunset and Before Midnight. His recent notable roles include The Black Phone, The Northman, and Leave the World Behind.

Hawke directed the narrative films Chelsea Walls, The Hottest State, and Blaze, as well as the documentary Seymour: An Introduction. He created, co-wrote, and starred as John Brown in the Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird, and directed the HBO Max documentary series The Last Movie Stars. He also starred in the Marvel television miniseries Moon Knight as Arthur Harrow.

In addition to his film work, 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, 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 2018, he starred in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Sam Shepard's play True West.

He has received numerous nominations including a total of four Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award. He is also the author of several books, including Rules for a Knight, The Hottest State, Ash Wednesday, and A Bright Ray of Darkness: A novel.