List of Ethan Hawke performances

American actor, film director and author Ethan Hawke made his debut in 1985 with the science fantasy film Explorers (1985). He then had his breakthrough performance in the 1989 drama film Dead Poets Society opposite Robin Williams. He starred in the 1990s films White Fang (1991) and its sequel (1994); Reality Bites with Winona Ryder (1994), Gattaca with Uma Thurman (1997), and Great Expectations with Gwyneth Paltrow (1998). He co-starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013). He and Delpy also co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater for the last two films.

During the 2000s, Hawke starred in numerous blockbuster films including Training Day opposite Denzel Washington (2001), Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie (2004), Lord of War with Nicolas Cage (2005), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead with Philip Seymour Hoffman (2007), and Brooklyn's Finest with Richard Gere (2009). He co-starred, wrote and directed the 2006 film The Hottest State, based on his 1996 novel of the same name. In 2012, Hawke starred in the supernatural horror film Sinister (2012) and the next year he starred in The Purge with Lena Headey, the first installment in The Purge franchise. He teamed up again with Linklater for the film Boyhood, which was released in 2014 but production began in 2002 and finished in 2013, with Linklater's goal to make a film about growing up. Hawke played Mason Evans Sr., the father to the main character. The following years, Hawke co-starred in the films Maggie's Plan (2015), Born to Be Blue (2015), The Magnificent Seven (2016), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), Juliet, Naked (2018), The Black Phone (2021) and The Northman (2022).

Hawke created, co-wrote and starred as John Brown in the Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird (2018), and directed the HBO Max documentary series The Last Movie Stars (2022). He starred in the Marvel television miniseries Moon Knight (2022) as Arthur Harrow.

In addition to his film work, Hawke has appeared in many theater productions, making his Broadway debut in 1992 in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2007 for his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. In 2010, Hawke directed Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play. In 2018, he starred in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Sam Shepard's play True West alongside Paul Dano.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1985	Explorers	Ben Crandall		^[1]
1988	Lion's Den	Chris	Short film
1989	Dead Poets Society	Todd Anderson		^[2]
1989	Dad	Billy Tremont
1991	White Fang	Jack Conroy
1991	Mystery Date	Tom McHugh
1992	Waterland	Mathew Price
1992	A Midnight Clear	Will Knott
1993	Rich in Love	Wayne Frobiness
1993	Alive	Nando Parrado
1994	Straight to One	N/A	Short film; writer, director and producer only
1994	Quiz Show	Don Quixote student	Uncredited cameo
1994	Reality Bites	Troy Dyer
1994	Floundering	Jimmy
1994	White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf	Jack Conroy	Uncredited cameo
1995	Before Sunrise	Jesse Wallace
1995	Search and Destroy	Roger
1997	Gattaca	Vincent Freeman
1998	Great Expectations	Finnegan 'Finn' Bell
1998	The Newton Boys	Jess Newton
1999	The Velocity of Gary	Nat
1999	Joe the King	Len Coles
1999	Snow Falling on Cedars	Ishmael Chambers
2000	Hamlet	Hamlet
2001	Waking Life	Jesse Wallace
2001	Tape	Vince
2001	Training Day	Detective Jake Hoyt
2001	Chelsea Walls	Sam (voice)	Uncredited; also director
2002	The Jimmy Show	Ray
2004	Taking Lives	Martin Asher / James Costa
2004	Before Sunset	Jesse Wallace	Also writer
2005	Assault on Precinct 13	Sergeant Jake Roenick
2005	Lord of War	ATF Agent Jack Valentine
2005	One Last Thing...	Earl Jameison	Uncredited cameo
2006	The Hottest State	Vince	Also writer and director
2006	Fast Food Nation	Pete
2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Hank Hanson
2008	What Doesn't Kill You	Paulie McDougan
2008	Chelsea on the Rocks	Himself	Documentary
2008	New York, I Love You	Writer
2009	Brooklyn's Finest	Detective Sal Procida
2009	Staten Island	'Sully' Halverson
2009	Corso: The Last Beat	Narrator / Himself	Documentary
2009	Daybreakers	Edward Dalton
2011	The Woman in the Fifth	Tom Ricks
2012	Total Recall	Carl Hauser	Director's cut only
2012	Sinister	Ellison Oswalt
2012	Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God	Pat (voice)	Documentary
2013	Before Midnight	Jesse Wallace	Also writer
2013	The Purge	James Sandin
2013	Getaway	Brent Magna
2014	Boyhood	Mason Evans Sr.
2014	Predestination	Agent Doe
2014	Cymbeline	Iachimo
2014	Good Kill	Major Tommy Egan
2014	Seymour: An Introduction	Himself	Documentary; also director
2015	Ten Thousand Saints	Les Keffy
2015	Maggie's Plan	John Harding
2015	Born to Be Blue	Chet Baker
2015	Regression	Bruce Kenner
2016	In a Valley of Violence	Paul
2016	The Phenom	Hopper Gibson Sr.
2016	Invasion!	Cosmos (voice)	Short film
2016	Maudie	Everett Lewis
2016	The Magnificent Seven	'Goodnight' Robicheaux
2017	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	'Jolly' The Pimp
2017	First Reformed	Reverend Ernst Toller
2017	24 Hours to Live	Travis Conrad
2017	Dark	Narrator	Uncredited
2018	Juliet, Naked	Tucker Crowe
2018	Blaze	Radio DJ	Cameo; also writer, director and producer
2018	Stockholm	Kaj Hansson / Lars Nystrom
2019	The Kid	Pat Garrett
2019	Adopt a Highway	Russell Millings	Also producer
2019	The Truth	Hank
2020	Tesla	Nikola Tesla
2020	Cut Throat City	Jackson Symms
2021	Zeros and Ones	JJ
2021	The Guilty	Sergeant Bill Miller (voice)
2021	The Black Phone	The Grabber
2022	The Northman	King Aurvandill
2022	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery	Efficient Man	Cameo
2022	Raymond & Ray	Ray
2023	Strange Way of Life	Jake	Short film
2023	Wildcat	—	Writer, director and producer only
2023	Leave the World Behind	Clay Sandford
TBA	Tonight at Noon †	Lefty	Post-production

Key
†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Alias	CIA Agent James L. Lennox	Episode: "Double Agent"
2007	Robot Chicken	Godzilla Junior / Jason	Voice, episode: "Squaw Bury Shortcake"
2011	Moby Dick	Starbuck	Miniseries
2019	The Purge	James Sandin	Episode: "7:01am"
2020	The Good Lord Bird	John Brown	Lead role; also creator, writer and executive producer
2022	Moon Knight	Arthur Harrow	Main role
2022	The Last Movie Stars	Himself	Documentary series; also director
2022–present	Batwheels	Batman	Main voice role^[3]
2023	Reservation Dogs	Rick Miller	Episode: "Elora's Dad"

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes
1991	Casanova	Young Casanova	The Public Theater
1992–1993	The Seagull	Konstantin Treplev	Lyceum Theatre
1993	Sophistry	Xavier 'Ex' Reynolds	Playwrights Horizons
1999	Camino Real	Kilroy	Williamstown Theatre Festival
2001	The Late Henry Moss	Ray Moss	Peter Norton Space
2003–2004	Henry IV	Henry Percy	Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway
2005	Hurlyburly	Eddie	Acorn Theatre
2006–2007	The Coast of Utopia	Michael Bakunin	Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway
2007	Things We Want	N/A	Acorn Theatre	Director only
2009	The Cherry Orchard	Peter Trofimov	BAM Harvey Theater
2009	The Winter's Tale	Autolycus	The Old Vic / International tour
2010	A Lie of the Mind	N/A	Acorn Theatre	Director only
2011	Blood From a Stone	Travis	Acorn Theatre
2012	Ivanov	Nikolai Ivanov	Classic Stage Company
2013	Clive	Clive	Acorn Theatre	Also director
2013–2014	Macbeth	Macbeth	Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway
2019	True West	Lee	American Airlines Theatre, Broadway

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Ref.
2024	"Fortnight"	Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone	^[4]

References

^ "Explorers - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. July 12, 1985. Retrieved May 19, 2023.
^ Kavanagh, Emily (July 1, 2022). "'Dead Poets Society' Shines Brighter Through a Queer Lens". Collider. Retrieved May 19, 2023.
^ "WarnerMedia Announces 'Batwheels' Cast". Animation World Network. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
^ Saunders, Angel (April 19, 2024). "Taylor Swift Enlists Dead Poets Society Actors Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles for 'Fortnight' Music Video". People. Dotdash Meredith. Retrieved April 20, 2024.