Ethan Hawke

Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, author and film director. He made his film debut in Explorers (1985), before making a breakthrough performance in Dead Poets Society (1989). Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy from 1995 to 2013. Hawke received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Training Day (2001) and Boyhood (2014) and two for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). Other notable roles include in Reality Bites (1994), Gattaca (1997), Great Expectations (1998), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Maggie's Plan (2015), First Reformed (2017), The Black Phone (2021) and The Northman (2022).

6 November 1970

Born on the same birth day (6 November): Addin Fonua-Blake • Adolphe Sax • Else Ackermann • Emma Stone • François Englert • George Ent • Jack O'Connor (English cricketer) • Jerry Yang • John Philip Sousa • June Squibb • Laura Flessel-Colovic • Luke Jackson (basketball, born 1981) • Mark Donaldson (rugby union) • Mike Nichols • P. J. Proby • Sam Reinhart • Thandiwe Newton

Born in the same month (November 1970): Alexander Kvitashvili • Dave Hughes • Elektra (wrestling) • Marc Rosset • Mark Pembridge • Michael Jackson (actor) • Oded Fehr • Stéphane Houdet • Tony Sly