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Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke

Biography

Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, writer and director. He made his feature film debut in 1985 with the science fiction movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society which is considered his breakthrough role. He then appeared in such films as White Fang (1991), A Midnight Clear (1992), and Alive (1993) before taking a role in the 1994 Generation X drama Reality Bites, for which he gained critical acclaim. In 1995, he starred in the romantic drama Before Sunrise, and later in its sequel Before Sunset (2004).

In 2001, Hawke was cast as a rookie police officer in Training Day, for which he received a Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category. Other films have included the science fiction feature Gattaca (1997), the title role in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000), the action thriller Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), and the crime drama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007).

Hawke has appeared in many theater productions including The Seagull, Henry IV, Hurlyburly, The Cherry Orchard, The Winter's Tale and The Coast of Utopia, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination. He made his directorial debut with the 2002 independent feature Chelsea Walls. In November 2007 Hawke directed his first play, Jonathan Marc Sherman's Things We Want. Aside from acting, he has written two novels, The Hottest State (1996) and Ash Wednesday (2002). Between 1998 and 2004, Hawke was married to actress Uma Thurman.

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CritifyHub Reviews Featuring Ethan Hawke

This Call Has Been Forwarded to Elm Street

on Black Phone 2 | Nov 17, 2025

So, how do you make a sequel when your main villain is definitively dead? If you’re Black Phone 2, the answer is simple: you borrow Freddy Krueger’s playbook and hope he doesn’t call to ask for it bac... Read more

Fractured Bonds and Fatal Choices: The Unraveling Tapestry of Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

on Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Aug 01, 2025

Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007) is a masterclass in dissecting the corrosive weight of desperation, woven through a non-linear narrative that feels like a Greek tragedy collid... Read more

Whispers of Time: The Fleeting Alchemy of *Before Sunset*

on Before Sunset | Jul 20, 2025

Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset (2004) is a cinematic waltz, an exquisite meditation on time, memory, and the fragile threads of human connection. The film, a sequel to Before Sunrise (1995), reunit... Read more

Whispers of Time: The Intimate Alchemy of Before Midnight

on Before Midnight | Jul 18, 2025

In Before Midnight (2013), Richard Linklater’s third chapter of the Jesse and Celine saga, the alchemy of love is distilled into a raw, unflinching portrait of intimacy’s evolution. The screenplay, co... Read more

Through the Helix: Gattaca’s Enduring Elegy to Human Will

on Gattaca | Jul 15, 2025

Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca (1997) is a science-fiction triumph that transcends its genre through a piercing exploration of identity and ambition, rendered with surgical precision in its screenplay and vi... Read more

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