Ethan Hawke

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may," is a phrase a young Ethan Hawke took to heart while filming "Dead Poets Society," the Academy Award winning drama which launched his career. Twenty five years, and several Tony® and Oscar® nominations later, he has emerged a multifaceted artist, challenging himself as a novelist, screenwriter and director, while earning world acclaim for his brave and nuanced roles

Hawke has collaborated with filmmaker Richard Linklater on multiple occasions, including "Fast Food Nation;" "Waking Life;" "The Newton Boys" and "Tape." Their most recent collaboration, "Boyhood," premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released by IFC on July 11, 2014. Hawke stars alongside Patricia Arquette and Ellar Coltrane in the film that was shot intermittently over 12 years chronicling the life of a child from age 6-18. Marking their most celebrated project, Hawke starred opposite Julie Delpy in the critically acclaimed film "Before Sunrise" and its two sequels "Before Sunset" and "Before Midnight." The trio co-wrote the screenplays for "Before Sunset" and “Before Midnight” and received Academy Award and Independent Spirit Award nominations for both scripts. Hawke, Linklater and Delpy were honored with the Louis Treize Genius Award for achievement in cinematic works for the "Before" films at the BFCA Critics Choice Awards.

Hawke will next be seen in "Predestination" for Sony. The film premiered at this year's SXSW film festival and will be released in 2015. Hawke recently reteamed with writer-director Michael Almereyda on William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline." Hawke stars in the contemporary-set romance set against the backdrop of a war between dirty cops and drug-dealing bikers, in what's being described as "Sons of Anarchy" meets Romeo and Juliet. Lionsgate will release the film in the spring of 2015. Additionally, Hawke also stars in Andrew Niccol's "Good Kill". Both “Good Kill” and “Cymbeline” premiered at this year's Venice Festival. He recently wrapped production on Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini's "Ten Thousand Saints”, Alejandro Amenábar's “Regression” alongside Emma Watson, and Blumhouse Productions and Ti West's "In a Valley of Violence" alongside John Travolta and Taissa Farmiga.

Hawke's documentary directorial debut “Seymour: An Introduction” premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and will also play at the New York Film Festival. The project follows the life of the legendary pianist and piano teacher Seymour Bernstein. IFC will release the film in 2015.

Hawke recently starred in James DeMonaco's “The Purge” alongside Lena Headey. Made on a budget of only $3 million dollars, “The Purge” became Ethan's largest box office opening weekend ever grossing over $34.5 million dollars.

Tapping into the pop culture zeitgeist with Ben Stiller's 1994 comedy "Reality Bites," Hawke has starred in over forty films, including; "Explorers;" "Dad;" "White Fang;" "Waterland;" "Alive;" "Rich In Love"; "Gattaca;" "Great Expectations;" "Hamlet;" "Assault on Precinct 13;" "Taking Lives;" "Before The Devil Knows You're Dead," "What Doesn't Kill You," "Brooklyn's Finest," "Woman in the Fifth," and "Sinister." In 2002, Hawke received Academy Award® and Screen Actors Guild Supporting Actor nominations for his work in Antoine Fuqua's "Training Day" opposite Denzel Washington.

Behind the lens, in 2001, Hawke made his directorial debut with his drama "Chelsea Walls." The film tells five stories set in a single day at the "Chelsea Hotel" and stars Uma Thurman, Kris Kristofferson, Rosario Dawson, Natasha Richardson, and Steve Zahn. Additionally, he directed Josh Hamilton in the short film "Straight to One," a story of a couple, young and in love, living in the Chelsea Hotel. Hawke also recently directed a documentary about famed piano composer Seymour Bernstein that will be released in 2014.

In 1996, Hawke wrote his first novel, The Hottest State, published by Little Brown and now in its nineteenth printing. In his sophomore directorial endeavor, Hawke adapted for the screen and directed the on-screen version of "The Hottest State" and also directed a music video for the film. In 2002, his second novel, Ash Wednesday, was published by Knopf and was chosen for Bloomsbury's contemporary classics series. In addition to his work as a novelist, Hawke wrote an in-depth and celebrated profile of icon Kris Kristofferson for Rolling Stone in April 2009.

At the age of twenty one, Hawke founded Malaparte Theater Co., which remained open for more than five years giving young artists a home to develop their craft. The next year in 1992, Hawke made his Broadway debut in The Seagull. Additionally, he has appeared in Henry IV alongside Richard Easton; Buried Child (Steppenwolf); Hurlyburly for which he earned a Lucille Lortel Award Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor and Drama League Award Nomination for Distinguished Performance (The New Group); Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia for which he was honored with a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Drama League Award nomination for Distinguished Performance (Lincoln Center); the inaugural season of The Bridge Project's double billings of The Cherry Orchard and A Winter's Tale; for which garnered Hawke a Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Old Vic); and Scott Elliott's Blood From A Stone (The New Group) which garnered him a 2011 Obie Award. Also for theatre, in 2007, Hawke made his Off-Broadway directing debut with the world premiere of Jonathan Marc Sherman's dark comedy, Things We Want. In 2010, Hawke directed Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, for which he received a Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play; as well as recognition in the New York Times and The New Yorker top ten lists of the leading theatre productions in 2010. In 2012, he starred in Chekov's Ivanov for the Classic Stage Company. In 2013, he directed and starred in Clive, the stage adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Baal, by Marc Sherman for The New Group. Hawke completed a successful run in Lincoln Center Theatre's production of “Macbeth” in the title role in late 2013.

For television, Hawke most recently appeared in the television adaption of "Moby Dick" that aired on Encore. He starred alongside William Hurt as the stalwart and experienced first officer Starbuck, the only member of the crew who dares to oppose Captain Ahab (William Hurt).

Hawke resides in New York and is married with four children.