• Faith: Christian
• Career: Actor
• Birthday:  November 06, 1970

Ethan Hawke is an author, actor, and film director. He made his film debut in "Explorers" before a breakthrough performance in "Dead Poets Society." He starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater's "Before" trilogy from 1995 to 2013. He 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." Other notable roles include in "Reality Bites,” "Gattaca,” "Great Expectations,” "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead,” "Maggie’s Plan,” “First Reformed,” and “Northman.”

Hawke directed the narrative movies “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 Good Lord Bird” and directed the documentary series “The Last Movie Stars.” Hawke also starred in “Moon Knight” as Arthur Harrow. In addition to his film work, Hawke has appeared in several theater productions, making his Broadway debut in 1992 in Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” and was nominated for a Tony 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 received numerous nominations, including a total of four Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Tony. Hawke was born in 1970 to Leside and James Hawke. His parents were high school sweethearts in Fort Worth, Texas, and they married young when Hawke’s mother was 17 years old. Hawke was born the next year. His parents were both students at the University of Texas at Austin when he was born. They separated and divorced in 1974 when he was four years old. After the separation, Hawke was raised by his mother, relocating several times before settling in New York City, where he attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights. When he was 10, Hawke’s mother remarried, and the family moved to West Windsor Township, New Jersey. There, Hawke attended the public West Windsor Plainsboro High School. He later transferred to the Hun School of Princeton, a secondary boarding school, from which he graduated in 1988.

In high school, Hawke aspired to be a writer but developed an interest in acting. He made his stage debut at 13 years old in a production at The McCarter Theatre of George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan.” He also performed in West Windsoer-Plainsboro High School productions of “Meet Me in St. Joan” and “You Can’t Take It With You.” At the Hun School, Hawke took acting classes at the McCarter Theatre located on the Princeton campus. After graduating from high school, Hawke studied acting at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, dropping out after he was cast in “Dead Poets Society.” He enrolled in New York University’s English program for two years but dropped out to pursue other acting roles.

What religion is Ethan Hawke?

Ethan Hawke identifies as a Christian. In one interview about his faith and working on “Wildcat,” Hawke said, "When I was a young man, I was extremely interested in religion, and faith was very, very important to me. And it was everything I thought about and I felt like, ‘How did I get to 50 and never get past first base with my exploration of faith?’ And then the clouds moved away, and I realized that my dedication to the arts had become the manifestation of that faith and that I wasn't on first base."