Ethan Hawke
Ethan Green Hawke ( born November 6, 1970 in Austin, Texas ) is an American actor and writer.
Work
Shortly after Hawkes birth his parents separated. After re- marriage of his mother, the family settled in Princeton.
A trained actor and stage actor, stood as a 14- year-old the first time in science fiction production Explorers - A fantastic adventure on camera. At Princeton, he took acting classes at the prestigious McCarter Theatre, attended acting classes of the British Theatre Association in England and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. His breakthrough as an actor, he obtained in 1989 with The Dead Poets Society, followed in numerous other movies. In 1997, he starred with Uma Thurman and Law Jew a starring role in Andrew Niccol's film Gattaca. For his role as Officer Jake Hoyt in Training Day was nominated for Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2002. In 2005 he achieved with his co- authors in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination for another Before Sunset. In Chelsea Walls, which was shown in 2001 during the International Film Festival of Cannes and in the resulting 2007 film adaptation of his own novel The Hottest State, he also led director.
Hawke is one of the founding members of the theater troupe Malaparte and also continues to act as its Artistic Director.
As an author, Hawke made his successful debut in 1996 with the novel Out and about ( The Hottest State ) in which he tells a love story between two young intellectuals in New York in the 1990s. His second novel, Ash Wednesday ( Ash Wednesday ) appeared in 2003.
In May 2009, was to see The Winter's Tale Ethan Hawke in the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen next to Sinéad Cusack and Rebecca Hall in Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and William Shakespeare. From October 2013 to January 2014 played Ethan Hawke at Lincoln Center in a new production of Shakespeare's Macbeth with.
Hawke repeatedly worked together with directors Richard Linklater, Antoine Fuqua, Andrew Niccol and James DeMonaco.
His German dubbing voice is mostly given to him by Andreas Fröhlich and Frank Schaff.
Private life
On 1 May 1998 Hawke married actress Uma Thurman, with whom he has two children (* 1998, * 2002). The two met on the set of Gattaca. The marriage was divorced on 20 July 2004, after Hawke was accused to have been unfaithful. In June 2008 he married Ryan Shawhughes, who had previously worked as a nanny for Thurman and Hawke. The couple has two daughters (* 2008, * 2011).
Filmography
Actor (selection)
Director
Screenwriter
- 2004: Before Sunset
- 2007: The Hottest State
Works
- Up and away. ( The Hottest State ). Ullsteinhaus -Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-548-24589-7.
- Ash Wednesday. ( Ash Wednesday ). Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-462-03075-2.