Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke is my favorite example of how to age inside an art form. The pretty young star of the early nineties could have coasted; instead he kept choosing collaborators like Richard Linklater, letting the passage of time itself become the subject of his work. He writes novels, directs films, and still acts with an open, slightly wounded sincerity that has not hardened in four decades. What I admire most is his lack of vanity: he lets characters be foolish, weak, or visibly aging because he trusts truth more than image. Few American actors have turned restlessness into such a coherent body of work.

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Name (English)

Ethan Hawke

Name (Japanese)

イーサン・ホーク

Reading

いーさん・ほーく

Born

November 6, 1970 (age 55)

Origin

Austin, Texas, United States

Height

180 cm

Occupation

film actor / film director / novelist / screenwriter / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

High school

West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South

University

New York University

Awards & achievements

• 2016 Donostia Award
• Film Independent Spirit Awards

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ethanhawke/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan%20Hawke
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q484615

Tags

• Texas
• film actor
• film director
• novelist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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