• Name: Ethan Green Hawke.
• Born: 6 November 1970, Austin, Texas, US.
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• Wife/Husband: Uma Thurman, Ryan Shahughes.

Early life:

Hawke was born in Austin, Texas to Leslie (née Green), a charitable worker, and James Hawke, an insurance firm. Hawke’s parents were high school sweethearts in Fort Worth, Texas, and married young, when Hawke’s mother was 17 years old. Hawk was born a year later. Hawke’s parents were students at the University of Texas at Austin at the time of his birth, and separated and later divorced in 1974.

After the separation, Hawk was then raised by his mother. The two relocated several times before settling in New York City, where Hawke attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights. Hawke’s mother remarried when she was 10, and the family moved to West Windsor Township, New Jersey, where Hawke attended West Windsor Plainsboro High School (renamed West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South in 1997). He later transferred to a secondary boarding school, the Kay Hun School of Princeton, from which he graduated in 1988.

He made his film debut with the 1985 science fiction feature Explorers before making a successful appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society. He appeared in various films before landing a role in the 1994 Generation X drama Reality Bites, for which he received critical acclaim. In 1995, Hawke starred in Richard Linklater’s romantic drama film Before Sunrise, and later in its sequels Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013), all of which received critical acclaim.

He attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School and then transferred to Swan School of Princeton and while he was there he began taking acting classes at the McCarter Theater on the Princeton campus. His initial ambition was to become a writer, but acting lessons and appearances in student productions resulted in him persuading his mother to allow him to attend auditions for a role in Explorers (1985), a sci-fi teen adventure. He got the role (along with Phoenix River) but although the film received favorable reviews, it was met with little commercial success that discouraged Hawke from pursuing further film roles for several years.

“Dead Poet Society” wasn’t his first film, but it was what made him a star: 1989, 18 years old, and offers just started pouring in. He dropped out of college. He does “mystery dates”. He announced that he was going to start Malaparte. He does “A Midnight Clear”. He’s going to use the money from those movies to mount a newly translated Pirandello game. His mother, who raised him from a young age in Austin, Tex., and raised him from a young age, worked so hard to give him a chance at life—she couldn’t stop crying. Sure, she’s helpful, but all she wanted was her solvency, and she’s putting the first money she earned into the paper shredder known as Off-Broadway. What she doesn’t understand is that he was balancing his universe with the necessary improvements that a handsome (he would police for only “photogenic”) man with a soul should make.

While maintaining his career in film, Hawke worked extensively in theatre. He cofounded the Malaparte Theater Company in New York City in 1991, and he made his Broadway debut a year later in Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. After Malaparte disbanded in 2000, Hawke returned to Broadway in Henry IV (2003) and Tom Stoppard in Tom Stoppard’s Grand Coast of Utopia (2006); His performance as Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin later earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor. In 2013–14 he appeared in the title role in the resurrection of Macbeth.