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Name : Ethan Green Hawke
Birthdate :November 6, 1970
Birthplace : Austin, Texas, USA
Height : 5' 10½" (1.79 m)
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His mother (Leslie Carole Green) was only 17 and his father only 18 when he was born; they separated three years later.
His family includes father James Steven Hawke, half-brothers Matt and Sam, and stepmother Gay.
His father is a high ranking official at Conseco; His mother is a Charity worker who lives in Romania.
Hawke's great-grandfather was the brother of Cornelius Williams, who was the father of well-known playwright Tennessee Williams.
Education: Attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School in Central New Jersey (1984-86), but is graduated from the Hun School of Princeton [1988]. The adolescent Hawke’s appearance in a Princeton University theater production led to an audition for his feature debut, the teen adventure flop Explorers (1985). Also he appeared in various high school performances, including George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.
After high school, He began attending at Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Drama in Pittsburgh but left school when he was cast in Peter Weir’s prep-school drama Dead Poet’s Society (1989).
He has twice enrolled in New York University's English programs and attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York for one year.
Visited the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago during a cross-country drive with playwright-actor Jonathan Marc Sherman and actor Josh Hamilton; then start a theater company called Malaparte with Robert Sean Leonard, Frank Whaley, Steve Zahn and Josh Hamilton (close friends after filming Dead Poet’s Society, A Midnight Clear, Reality Bites and Alive! respectively). Eventually disbanded.
The cat appearing in the Lisa Loeb music-video "Stay", which he directed, is his own.
In 1996, during a two-year hiatus from filmaking, Hawke published his first novel, The Hottest State; his second novel is Ash Wednesday (2002).
In 2001, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Training Day.
In 2005, he received his first screenwriting Oscar nomination for co-writing Before Sunset (a sequel to Before Sunrise).
On May 1, 1998, Hawke married actress Uma Thurman, his costar in the film Gattaca (1997). The couple had two children, daughter Maya Ray (born July 8, 1998) and son Levon Roan (born January 15, 2002). They separated in July 2004 and divorced in 2005.
Childhood friend of director Bryan Singer.
He is a Democrat.
Says that he is constantly mistaken for Mark McGrath from "Sugar Ray" so often that he signs autographs as "Mark McGrath" and, apparently, the same thing happens to Mark McGrath who, in turn, signs autographs as "Ethan Hawke" to fans.
Is a big fan of the Star Wars movie series.
On March 26, 2006 Hawke's personal business office in New York City was destroyed by a fast-moving fire. He was in the middle of directing and starring in a movie version of his first novel, The Hottest State. The fire broke out in a newly renovated office on the second floor of the office building and the blaze quickly spread to the fifth floor. It destroyed Hawke's fourth-floor office and his post-production studio. Master tapes and negatives from Hawke's film were being stored off-site and were reportedly not destroyed by the fire.
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