Born on November 6, 1970, Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor and film director.
He has been nominated for four Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, and one Tony Award.
He made his debut in the 1985 science fiction film Explorers, making his breakthrough appearance in the drama Dead Poets Society in 1989. He had appeared in a number of films prior to landing a role in the Generation X drama Reality Bites in 1994, for which he received praise from critics.
Hawke and Julie Delpy co-starred in Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy: He co-wrote Before Sunrise (1995), Before Midnight (2013), and Before Sunset (2004) with Linklater and Delpy. He has also appeared in the Scott Derrickson-directed horror films Sinister (2012) and The Black Phone (2021).
Where did Ethan Hawke go to college and high school? Did Ethan Hawke go to film school?
Hawke attended Brooklyn Heights’ Packer Collegiate Institute.
When Hawke was 10 years old, his mother got married again, and the family moved to West Windsor Township, New Jersey. Hawke attended West Windsor Plainsboro High School, a public school that was renamed West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South in 1997. After that, he moved on to the Hun School of Princeton, a secondary boarding school, and he graduated from there in 1988.
He attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to study acting after graduating from high school, but he dropped out after being cast in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. He attended the English program at New York University for two years before withdrawing to pursue other acting roles.
