Actor
A restlessly intellectual actor and filmmaker who has spent four decades moving fluidly between cinema and theatre, building a body of work distinguished by artistic risk-taking and collaborative ensemble commitment.
Defining moments and milestones
Ethan Hawke's career began in the late 1980s with television and film roles before achieving critical recognition through Richard Linklater's *Before* trilogy, which established him as an actor of intellectual depth and conversational subtlety. He has sustained a deliberate dual practice across cinema and theatre, anchoring himself in New York's institutional theatre while accumulating four Academy Award nominations for his film work. His theatrical roles—including Macbeth, Clive in *The Coast of Utopia*, and appearances at Lincoln Center Theater and Classic Stage Company—demonstrate an artist committed to ensemble collaboration and artistic risk over commercial calculation.
Four Academy Award nominations for *Boyhood* (2015), *Before Sunrise* (1995), *Before Sunset* (2004), and *Before Midnight* (2013)
New York University
Recordings featuring Ethan Hawke in the Society index
Additional recordings will appear here as the catalog expands.