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Ethan Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an United
States|American actor, writer and film director.

Born in Austin, Texas, Hawke moved to Princeton,
New Jersey at an early age, where he took acting
classes at the McCarter Theatre. He first appeared
in various high school performances, e.g. in
George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan. 

At the age of fourteen he made his feature film
debut in Explorers (1985). Afterward, Hawke
studied acting at the British Theatre Association
in England and at the Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh. He has twice enrolled in New York
University's English program and is one of the
founding fathers and artistic director of
Malaparte, a New York City theatre company.

In 1988, Hawke was offered a role in Peter
Weir’s Dead Poets Society and his part as
Todd Anderson was his 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 in Training Day. 

Hawke has recently directed Chelsea Walls and has
written two novels, The Hottest State (1996) and
Ash Wednesday (2002). 

On May 1, 1998 he married actress Uma Thurman with
whom he has two children, daughter Maya Ray (born
July 8, 1998) and son Levon (born January 15,
2002). They separated in 2004 amid tabloid rumours
of a relationship between Thurman and Quentin
Tarantino on the set of Kill Bill and his own
infidelity with an unknown woman.  In 2005, along
with his co-writers, he received his first
screenwriting Oscar nomination for Before Sunset
(a sequel  to Before Sunrise). 

Hawke owns a small island off the coast of Nova
Scotia.

===Filmography===
*Assault on Precinct 13 (2005 movie)|Assault on
Precinct 13 (2005)
*Before Sunset (2004)
*Corso: The Last Beat (2002)
*Chelsea Walls (2001)
*The Jimmy Show (2001)
*Training Day (2001)
*Tape (movie)|Tape (2001)
*Waking Life (2001)
*Tell Me (2000)
*Hamlet_(2000_film)|Hamlet (2000)
*Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
*Joe the King (1999)
*The Velocity of Gary (1998)
*The Newton Boys (1998)
*Great Expectations (1998)
*Gattaca (1997)
*Search and Destroy (1995)
*Before Sunrise (1995)
*Floundering (1994)
*Reality Bites (1994)
*Rich in Love (1993)
*Alive (movie)|Alive (1993)
*Waterland (1992)
*A Midnight Clear (1992)
*White Fang (1991 movie)|White Fang (1991)
*Mystery Date (1991)
*Dead Poets Society (1989)
*Dad (1989)
*Explorers (1985)

==Bibliography==

*Ash Wednesday (2002)
*The Hottest State (1996)

==External links==
*imdb name | id=0000160 | name=Ethan Hawke