Ethan Hawke

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Date of Birth : Nov 6th 1970

Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, writer and film director.

At the age of fourteen, he made his feature film debut in Joe Dante’s Explorers (1985). Hawke studied acting at the British Theatre Association in England and at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He twice enrolled in New York University’s English program and is one of the founding fathers and artistic director of Malaparte, a former New York City theatre company. Malaparte productions included A Joke!; Wild Dogs; Good Evening; Sons and Fathers; It Changes Every Year; Veins and Thumbtacks; Hesh; and The Great Unwashed.

In 1988, Hawke was cast in a role in director Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society; the film’s success was considered Hawke’s breakthrough. He left school and appeared in A Midnight Clear, Alive, Reality Bites, Before Sunrise, Gattaca, The Newton Boys, Great Expectations, and many other movies. In 2001, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Training Day. Hawke directed Chelsea Walls and has written two novels, The Hottest State (in 1996) and Ash Wednesday (in 2002). In 2005, he received his first screenwriting Oscar nomination for co-writing the 2004 film, Before Sunset (a sequel to Before Sunrise). From October 2006 through May 2007, he was in The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard at Lincoln Center in New York, playing Mikhail Bakunin. For this performance, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

On March 26, 2006 Hawke’s personal business office in New York City was destroyed by a fast-moving fire. He was in the middle of directing and starring in a movie version of his first novel, The Hottest State. The fire broke out in a newly renovated office on the second floor of the office building and the blaze quickly spread to the fifth floor. It destroyed Hawke’s fourth-floor office and his post-production studio. Master tapes and negatives from Hawke’s film were being stored off-site and were reportedly not destroyed by the fire. In the summer of 2006, he appeared in the Sidney Lumet-directed film Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead with Marisa Tomei, Albert Finney, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. He directed The New Group’s world premiere of Jonathan Marc Sherman’s play Things We Want which began previews October 22nd, 2007.