Cast & creator
Ethan Hawke
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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.
Also known as: Ethan Green Hawke
147
film credits
46
television credits
164
1953–2026 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (193)
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The Daily Show
Self
1996
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
Conan
Self
2010
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest
2007
The View
Self
1997The View
Self - Guest
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
1992
Great Performances
Self
1971
Quotidien
Self - Guest
2016
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Moon Knight
Arthur Harrow
2022
Batwheels
Batman (voice)
2022
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Self
2014
The Weight
Samuel Murphy
2026
The Oscars
Self
1953
Dead Poets Society
Todd Anderson
1989
Desus & Mero
Self - Illustrious Guest
2019
The Purge
James Sandin
2018
The Northman
King Aurvandil War-Raven
2022
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Efficient Man
2022
Training Day
Jake
2001
Black Phone 2
Grabber
2025
The Black Phone
The Grabber
2022
Explained
Narrator (voice)
2018
Total Recall
Hauser (long version only)
2012
Before Sunrise
Jesse
1995
The Lowdown
Lee Raybon
2025The Lowdown
Executive Producer
2025
Blue Moon
Lorenz Hart
2025
The Magnificent Seven
Goodnight Robicheaux
2016
The Purge
James Sandin
2013
Alias
James Lennox
2001
Sinister
Ellison Oswalt
2012
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
Self
2018
Bo' Selecta!
Self
2002
Predestination
The Bartender
2014
Lord of War
Jack Valentine
2005
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Jolly the Pimp
2017
Gattaca
Vincent Freeman
1997
Reservation Dogs
Rick Miller
2021
The American Revolution
Anthony Wayne / John Andrews (voice)
2025
Leave the World Behind
Clay Sandford
2023
Taking Lives
James Costa
2004
The Good Lord Bird
John Brown
2020The Good Lord Bird
Executive Producer
2020The Good Lord Bird
Writer
2020The Good Lord Bird
Creator
2020
The Last Movie Stars
Director
2022
Before Sunset
Jesse
2004Before Sunset
Screenplay
2004
The Guilty
Sgt. Bill Miller (voice)
2021
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Self
2025
Juliet, Naked
Tucker Crowe
2018
Assault on Precinct 13
Sergeant Jake Roenick
2005
Boyhood
Dad
2014
Great Expectations
Finnegan Bell
1998
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Hank Hanson
2007
24 Hours to Live
Travis Conrad
2017
Daybreakers
Edward Dalton
2010
Vietnam: The War That Changed America
Self - Narrator (voice)
2025
New York, I Love You
Writer
2008
Alive
Nando Parrado
1993
Talking with Chris Hardwick
Self
2017
Before Midnight
Jesse
2013Before Midnight
Writer
2013
Reality Bites
Troy Dyer
1994
Brooklyn's Finest
Det. Sal Procida
2010
White Fang
Jack Conroy
1991
Cut Throat City
Jackson Symms
2020
Raymond & Ray
Ray
2022
Quiz Show
Don Quixote Student (uncredited)
1994
First Reformed
Pastor Ernst Toller
2018
Stockholm
Lars Nystrom
2019
Regression
Bruce Kenner
2015
Shakespeare Uncovered
Self
2012
The Truth
Hank
2019
Moby Dick
Starbuck
2011
Adopt a Highway
Russell Millings
2019Adopt a Highway
Producer
2019
Strange Way of Life
Jake
2023
Wildcat
Director
2024Wildcat
Writer
2024Wildcat
Producer
2024
Good Kill
Commandant Tom Egan
2015
Tesla
Nikola Tesla
2020
In a Valley of Violence
Paul
2016
Maggie's Plan
John Harding
2016
The Kid
Sheriff Pat Garrett
2019
Explorers
Ben Crandall
1985
Waking Life
Jesse
2001
10,000 Saints
Les Horn
2015
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
Jack Conroy (uncredited)
1994
Snow Falling on Cedars
Ishmael Chambers
1999
Born to Be Blue
Chet Baker
2015
What Doesn't Kill You
Paulie
2008
Maudie
Everett Lewis
2016
Cymbeline
Iachimo
2014
The Woman in the Fifth
Tom Ricks
2011
Dad
Billy
1989
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
Self - Arthur Harrow
2022
Zeros and Ones
JJ / Justin
2021
The Newton Boys
Jess Newton
1998
Fast Food Nation
Pete
2006
A Midnight Clear
Will Knott
1992
The Hottest State
Vince
2007The Hottest State
Director
2007The Hottest State
Writer
2007
I, Object
Little Ben (voice)
2026
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Getaway
Brent Magna
2013
21 Years: Richard Linklater
Self - Actor
2014
My Generation
Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
She Dances
Brian
2026
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self (archive footage)
2025
Blaze
Radio DJ
2018Blaze
Writer
2018Blaze
Director
2018Blaze
Producer
2018
Joe the King
Len Coles
1999
Waterland
Matthew Price
1992
One Last Thing...
Earl Jameison (uncredited)
2005
Mystery Date
Tom McHugh
1991
All the Love You Cannes!
Self
2002
Hamlet
Hamlet
2000
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
Self
2023
The Phenom
Hopper Sr.
2016
Chelsea on the Rocks
Self
2008
Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Self
2022
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
Self
2016
Seymour: An Introduction
Self
2015Seymour: An Introduction
Director
2015The Last of the Tribe
William Phelan
The Last of the Tribe
Producer
Chelsea Walls
Sam (voice) (uncredited)
2001Chelsea Walls
Director
2001
The Velocity of Gary
Nat
1999
Staten Island
Sully
2009
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Pat (voice)
2012
Before Sunrise: Behind the Scenes
Highway 99: A Double Album
Director
2025
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
Self
2008
Tape
Vin
2001
The Space in Between
Self
2017Tonight at Noon
Lefty
Starring Austin Pendleton
Self
2016
Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone
Self
2022
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
2020
Welcome Nowhere
Narrator
2013
Let's Dance
Segment: "Table Manners"
2018
At Sundance
Self
1995
Waiting for Godot
Vladimir
2021
Before Sunset: Behind the Scenes
2005
Rich in Love
Wayne Frobiness
1992
Revolver
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
Self
2007
The Making of Daybreakers
Self
2010
The Phoenix Portal
Ben Crandall (archive footage)
2005
Dead Poets in NYC
Self
2014
After Before
Self
2017
The Jimmy Show
Ray
2002
King Hamlet
Executive Producer
2025
Floundering
Jimmy
1994
All You Zombies: Bringing 'Predestination' to Life
Self
2015Untitled Agnes Denes Documentary
Executive Producer
Before the End
Self - Jesse
2020
Search and Destroy
Roger
1995
Twelve Years
Self
2015
Straight to One
Producer
1993Straight to One
Director
1993Straight to One
Writer
1993
Lion's Den
Chris
1988
Invasion!
Voice of the Cosmos (voice)
2016
pollyDAYS
Self
2003Hippies
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deep in the Heart II: Texas Rivers
2026Camino Real
Screenplay
Camino Real
Director
Chattanooga Strong
Narrator
2015The Gunfighter
Writer
The Gunfighter
Producer
In the Dark
2014ストレンジ・ウェイ・オブ・ライフ
ジェイク