Occupation:
Actor, Author, Director
Date of Birth: November 6, 1970
Place of Birth:
Austin, Texas, USA
Sign: Scorpio
Relations: Wife: Uma Thurman
(actress); daughter: Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke
Education: Attended Carnegie-Mellon and New York University
Facts about Ethan Hawke:
Published his first novel, "The
Hottest State," in 1996 (the novel sold for $400,000 to Little, Brown and
Company). His second books is "Ash Wednesday".
Was in a production of "Great
Expectations" at West Windsor Plainsboro High School.
Was accepted by Carnegie-Mellon
University, School of Drama in Pittsburgh, PA, but dropped out after only 5
months.
Bearing the kind of sensitive-man good looks
that have led many to think he would be perfect for a career as a tortured,
latte-chugging intellectual, Ethan Hawke instead emerged in the 1990s as both
a talented actor and a thinking girl's poster boy.
Hawke finds balancing movie work and family life
a tricky task.
Ethan Hawke doesn't like working with his wife
Uma Thurman because she can boss him around too easily.
In WAKING LIFE (2001) Julie Delpy and Hawke reprise
their roles as Celine and Jesse from BEFORE SUNRISE (1995) written by Richard
Linklater.
Was nominated at MTV Movie Awards in 1995 for
Best Kiss for BEFORE SUNRISE and REALITY BITES in 1994.
The cat appearing in the Lisa
Loeb music-video "Stay", which he directed, is his own.
(1984-86) Attended West Windsor-Plainsboro
High School in Central New Jersey, but is not pictured in the yearbook.
(1988) Graduated from the Hun
School of Princeton.
Proposed to wife Uma Thurman twice
before she said yes.
His brother is a Green Beret.
(8 July 1998) Daughter, with Thurman,
Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke.
Welcomed second child, Roan, a
boy on January 15, 2002. The baby weighed 7lbs 15oz.
Personal quotes:
"Denzel is one of my favorite actors, which
is why I persisted even when I met a great deal of opposition. It was disheartening
to audition knowing the studio didn't want me [for Training Day]. Denzel
said he wanted me and suddenly that was the end of the debate. The irony is
that Denzel is the reason I wanted the job and he got me the job."
"I think most people are good at more things
than the world gives them the opportunity to do."
- Ethan Hawke
