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Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke
  • First Movie - Explorers 1985
  • Last Movie - Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90 2023
  • Total Movies - 83
  • Future Movies -
    • Black Phone 2 (15th October 2025)
    • Blue Moon (17th October 2025)
  • Highest Grossing Movies
    • UK: Sinister (2012) - £6,506,345
    • US: Dead Poets Society (1989) - $95,860,116
    • World: Dead Poets Society (1989) - $235,860,116
  • Combined grosses
    • UK - £68.8 Million
    • US - $1 Billion
    • Global - $1.5 Billion
  • Highest Rated Movie - Cut Throat City (2020) - 100%
  • Lowest rated movie - () - 0%

Acting credits By Year of release

By Year
By Rating
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Starring With
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Year

Blue Moon

(Ethan Hawke plays Lorenz Hart)

Director(s):
Richard Linklater

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Margaret Qualley • Bobby Cannavale • Andrew Scott • Giles Surridge

2025

Black Phone 2

(Ethan Hawke plays The Grabber)

Director(s):
Scott Derrickson

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Mason Thames • Jeremy Davies • Anna Lore • Madeleine McGraw

2025

Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90

Director(s):
Gregg Gelfand

Starring:
Tom Bukovac • Gary Clark Jr. • Sheryl Crow • Audley Freed • Jennifer Garner

2023

Leave the World Behind

(Ethan Hawke plays Clay Sandford)

Director(s):
Sam Esmail

Starring:
Julia Roberts • Mahershala Ali • Ethan Hawke • Myhala • Farrah Mackenzie

2023

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

(Ethan Hawke plays Efficient Man)

Director(s):
Rian Johnson

Starring:
Daniel Craig • Edward Norton • Janelle Monae • Kathryn Hahn • Leslie Odom Jr.

2022

Raymond and Ray

(Ethan Hawke plays Ray)

Director(s):
Rodrigo Garcia

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Ewan McGregor • Vondie Curtis-Hall • Sophie Okonedo • Maribel Verdu

2022

The Black Phone

(Ethan Hawke plays The Grabber)

Director(s):
Scott Derrickson

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Mason Thames • Madeleine McGraw • Jeremy Davies • E. Roger Mitchell

2022

The Northman

(Ethan Hawke plays King Aurvandil War-Raven)

Director(s):
Robert Eggers

Starring:
Alexander Skarsgård • Nicole Kidman • Claes Bang • Anya Taylor-Joy • Ethan Hawke

2022

The Guilty

(Ethan Hawke plays SGT. Bill Miller)

Director(s):
Antoine Fuqua

Starring:
Jake Gyllenhaal • Riley Keough • Peter Sarsgaard • Christina Vidal • Eli Goree

2021

The Truth

(Ethan Hawke plays Hank)

Director(s):
Kore-eda Hirokazu

Starring:
Catherine Deneuve • Juliette Binoche • Ethan Hawke • Clementine Grenier • Manon Clavel

2020

Cut Throat City

(Ethan Hawke plays Jackson Symms)

Director(s):
RZA

Starring:
Eiza González • Ethan Hawke • Kat Graham • Keean Johnson • Wesley Snipes
2020

Tesla

(Ethan Hawke plays Nikola Tesla)

Director(s):
Michael Almereyda

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Hannah Gross • Kyle MacLachlan • Eve Hewson • Ebon Moss-Bachrach

2020

The Captor

(Ethan Hawke plays Kaj Hansson / Lars Nystrom)

Director(s):
Robert Budreau

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Noomi Rapace • Mark Strong • Christopher Heyerdahl • Bea Santos

2019

The Kid

(Ethan Hawke plays Sheriff Pat Garrett)

Director(s):
Vincent D'Onofrio

Starring:
Jake Schur • Leila George • Chris Pratt • Dane DeHaan • Ethan Hawke

2019

Adopt a Highway

(Ethan Hawke plays Russell Millings)

Director(s):
Logan Marshall-Green

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Elaine Hendrix • Chris Sullivan • Christopher Heyerdahl • Betty Gabriel

2019

Juliet, Naked

Director(s):
Jesse Peretz

Starring:
Chris O'Dowd • Rose Byrne • Kitty OBeirne • Alex Clatworthy • Lily Brazier

2018

Blaze

(Ethan Hawke plays Radio DJ)

Director(s):
Ethan Hawke

Starring:
Ben Dickey • Alia Shawkat • Josh Hamilton • Charlie Sexton • Lloyd Teddy Johnson Jr.

2018

The King

Director(s):
Eugene Jarecki

Starring:
Alec Baldwin • Tony Brown • James Carville • Chuck D • Maggie Clifford

2018

First Reformed

(Ethan Hawke plays Rev. Ernst Toller)

Director(s):
Paul Schrader

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Amanda Seyfried • Cedric the Entertainer • Victoria Hill • Philip Ettinger

2018

Maudie

Director(s):
Aisling Walsh

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Sally Hawkins • Kari Matchett • Zachary Bennett • Gabrielle Rose

2017

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

(Ethan Hawke plays Jolly the Pimp)

Director(s):
Luc Besson

Starring:
Dane DeHaan • Cara Delevingne • Clive Owen • Rihanna • Ethan Hawke
2017

24 Hours to Live

(Ethan Hawke plays Travis Conrad)

Director(s):
Brian Smrz

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Qing Xu • Paul Anderson • Rutger Hauer • Tyrone Keogh

2017

Richard Linklater Dream Is Destiny

Director(s):
Louis Black • Karen Bernstein

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Julie Delpy

2016

The Magnificent Seven

Director(s):
Antoine Fuqua

Starring:
Denzel Washington • Chris Pratt • Ethan Hawke • Vincent D'Onofrio • Byung-hun Lee
2016

Born to Be Blue

Director(s):
Robert Budreau

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Carmen Ejogo • Callum Rennie • Tony Nappo • Stephen McHattie

2016

Maggies Plan

Director(s):
Rebecca Miller

Starring:
Travis Fimmel • Ethan Hawke • Julianne Moore • Greta Gerwig • Bill Hader

2016

The Phenom

Director(s):
Noah Buschel

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Paul Giamatti • Johnny Simmons • Elizabeth Marvel • Paul Adelstein

2016

In a Valley of Violence

Director(s):
Ti West

Starring:
Karen Gillan • John Travolta • Ethan Hawke • Taissa Farmiga • Burn Gorman

2016

Regression

Director(s):
Alejandro Amenábar

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Emma Watson • David Thewlis • Dale Dickey • Aaron Ashmore

2015

Sinister 2

Director(s):
Ciaran Foy

Starring:
James Ransone • Shannyn Sossamon • Robert Daniel Sloan • Dartanian Sloan • Lea Coco

2015

Good Kill

Director(s):
Andrew Niccol

Starring:
January Jones • Zoë Kravitz • Ethan Hawke • Jake Abel • Bruce Greenwood

2015

Exit Strategy

(Ethan Hawke plays Eric Shaw)

Director(s):
Antoine Fuqua

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Tom Sizemore • Lina Esco • Megan Dodds • Max Martini

2015

10,000 Saints

(Ethan Hawke plays Les)

Director(s):
Shari Springer Berman • Robert Pulcini

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Asa Butterfield • Emily Mortimer • Julianne Nicholson • Avan Jogia

2015

Predestination

(Ethan Hawke plays The Barkeep)

Director(s):
Michael Spierig • Peter Spierig

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Sarah Snook • Christopher Kirby • Christopher Sommers • Kuni Hashimoto

2014

Boyhood

Director(s):
Richard Linklater

Starring:
Ellar Coltrane • Patricia Arquette • Ethan Hawke • Elijah Smith • Lorelei Linklater

2014

Cymbeline

Director(s):
Michael Almereyda

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Ed Harris • Milla Jovovich • John Leguizamo • Penn Badgley

2014

Getaway

Director(s):
Courtney Solomon

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Selena Gomez • Jon Voight • Rebecca Budig • Paul Freeman

2013

Before Midnight

Director(s):
Richard Linklater

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Julie Delpy • Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick • Jennifer Prior • Charlotte Prior

2013

The Purge

Director(s):
James DeMonaco

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Lena Headey • Max Burkholder • Adelaide Kane • Edwin Hodge

2013

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In the House of God

(Ethan Hawke plays Pat (voice))

Director(s):
Alex Gibney

Starring:
Alex Gibney • Terry Kohut • Gary Smith • Pat Kuehn • Arthur Budzinski

2012

Sinister

Director(s):
Scott Derrickson

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Juliet Rylance • Fred Dalton Thompson • James Ransone • Michael Hall DAddario

2012

Total Recall

(Ethan Hawke plays Carl Hauser)

Director(s):
Len Wiseman

Starring:
Colin Farrell • Kate Beckinsale • Jessica Biel • Bryan Cranston • Bokeem Woodbine
2012

The Woman In the Fifth

Director(s):
Pawel Pawlikowski

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Kristin Scott Thomas • Joanna Kulig • Samir Guesmi • Delphine Chuillot

2012

Brooklyn's Finest

Director(s):
Antoine Fuqua

Starring:
Richard Gere • Don Cheadle • Ethan Hawke • Wesley Snipes • Vincent D'Onofrio

2010

New York, I Love You

(Ethan Hawke plays Writer)

Director(s):
Fatih Akin • Yvan Attal • Randall Balsmeyer • Allen Hughes • Shunji Iwai • Wen Jiang • Shekhar Kapur • Joshua Marston • Mira Nair • Natalie Portman • Brett Ratner

Starring:
Hayden Christensen • Andy Garcia • Rachel Bilson • Natalie Portman • Irrfan Khan

2009

Daybreakers

(Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton)

Director(s):
Michael Spierig • Peter Spierig

Starring:
Harriet Minto-Day • Jay Lagaaia • Damien Garvey • Sahaj Dumpleton • Allan Todd

2009

Little New York

Director(s):
James DeMonaco

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Vincent D'Onofrio • Seymour Cassel • Julianne Nicholson • Ian Brennan
2009

What Doesnt Kill You

Director(s):
Brian Goodman

Starring:
Mark Ruffalo • Ethan Hawke • Amanda Peet • Will Lyman • Brian Goodman

2008

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

(Ethan Hawke plays Hank)

Director(s):
Sidney Lumet

Starring:
Philip Seymour Hoffman • Ethan Hawke • Albert Finney • Marisa Tomei • Aleksa Palladino
2007

Fast Food Nation

(Ethan Hawke plays Pete)

Director(s):
Richard Linklater

Starring:
Wilmer Valderrama • Catalina Sandino Moreno • Ana Claudia Talancon • Juan Carlos Serran • Armando Hernandez

2006

The Hottest State

Director(s):
Ethan Hawke

Starring:
Mark Webber • Daniel Ross Owens • Glen Powell • Anne Clarke • Cherami Leigh

2006

Lord of War

Director(s):
Andrew Niccol

Starring:
Nicolas Cage • Bridget Moynahan • Jared Leto • Shake Tukhmanyan • Jean-Pierre Nshanian

2005

Assault On Precinct 13

Director(s):
Jean-Franois Richet

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Laurence Fishburne • Gabriel Byrne • Maria Bello • Drea de Matteo

2005

One Last Thing

Director(s):
Alex Steyermark

Starring:
Michael Angarano • Matt Bush • Gideon Glick • Cynthia Nixon • Gia Carides

2005

Before Sunset

Director(s):
Richard Linklater

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Julie Delpy • Vernon Dobtcheff • Louise Lemoine Torres • Rodolphe Pauly

2004

Taking Lives

(Ethan Hawke plays Costa)

Director(s):
D.J. Caruso

Starring:
Angelina Jolie • Ethan Hawke • Kiefer Sutherland • Gena Rowlands • Olivier Martinez

2004

Training Day

Director(s):
Antoine Fuqua

Starring:
Denzel Washington • Ethan Hawke • Scott Glenn • Tom Berenger • Harris Yulin

2002

Chelsea Walls

Director(s):
Ethan Hawke

Starring:
Bianca Hunter • Kevin Corrigan • Rosario Dawson • Matthew Del Negro • Paz de la Huerta

2001

Waking Life

Director(s):
Richard Linklater

Starring:
Trevor Jack Brooks • Lorelei Linklater • Wiley Wiggins • Glover Gill • Lara Hicks

2001

Tape

Director(s):
Richard Linklater

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Robert Sean Leonard • Uma Thurman

2001

The Jimmy Show

Director(s):
Frank Whaley

Starring:
Frank Whaley • Carla Gugino • Ethan Hawke • Lynn Cohen • Jillian Stacom

2001

Hamlet

(Ethan Hawke plays Hamlet)

Director(s):
Michael Almereyda

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Kyle MacLachlan • Diane Venora • Sam Shepard • Bill Murray

2000

Snow Falling On Cedars

Director(s):
Scott Hicks

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Youki Kudoh • Reeve Carney • Anne Suzuki • Rick Yune

2000

Joe the King

Director(s):
Frank Whaley

Starring:
Noah Fleiss • Karen Young • Camryn Manheim • Austin Pendleton • Val Kilmer

1999

Great Expectations

(Ethan Hawke plays Finnegan Bell)

Director(s):
Alfonso Cuarón

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Gwyneth Paltrow • Hank Azaria • Chris Cooper • Anne Bancroft

1998

Gattaca

Director(s):
Andrew Niccol

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Uma Thurman • Gore Vidal • Xander Berkeley • Jayne Brook

1998

The Newton Boys

Director(s):
Richard Linklater

Starring:
Matthew McConaughey • Skeet Ulrich • Ethan Hawke • Gail Cronauer • Vincent D'Onofrio
1998

The Velocity of Gary* *(Not His Real Name)

Director(s):
Dan Ireland

Starring:
Danny Arroyo • Vincent D'Onofrio • Jason Cutler • Salma Hayek • Olivia d'Abo

1998

Before Sunrise

(Ethan Hawke plays Jesse)

Director(s):
Richard Linklater

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Julie Delpy • Andrea Eckert • Hanno Poschl • Karl Bruckschwaiger

1995

Quiz Show

(Ethan Hawke plays Don Quixote Student)

Director(s):
Robert Redford

Starring:
John Turturro • Rob Morrow • Ralph Fiennes • Paul Scofield • David Paymer

1995

Search and Destroy

Director(s):
David Salle

Starring:
Dennis Hopper • Jason Ferraro • Robert Knepper • Griffin Dunne • Martin Scorsese

1995

Reality Bites

(Ethan Hawke plays Troy Dyer)

Director(s):
Ben Stiller

Starring:
Winona Ryder • Ethan Hawke • Janeane Garofalo • Steve Zahn • Ben Stiller

1994

Floundering

Director(s):
Peter McCarthy

Starring:
James Le Gros • Shaka • Zander Schloss • John Cusack • Nina Siemaszko

1994

White Fang 2 Myth of the White Wolf

Director(s):
Ken Olin

Starring:
Scott Bairstow • Charmaine Craig • Al Harrington • Anthony Ruivivar • Victoria Racimo

1994

Alive

(Ethan Hawke plays Nando Parrado)

Director(s):
Frank Marshall

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Vincent Spano • Josh Hamilton • Bruce Ramsay • John Newton
1993

Rich In Love

(Ethan Hawke plays Wayne Frobiness)

Director(s):
Bruce Beresford

Starring:
Albert Finney • Jill Clayburgh • Kathryn Erbe • Kyle MacLachlan • Piper Laurie

1992

Waterland

(Ethan Hawke plays Matthew Price)

Director(s):
Stephen Gyllenhaal

Starring:
Jeremy Irons • Sinead Cusack • Grant Warnock • Lena Headey • Callum Dixon

1992

A Midnight Clear

Director(s):
Keith Gordon

Starring:
Peter Berg • Kevin Dillon • Arye Gross • Ethan Hawke • Gary Sinise

1992

White Fang

Director(s):
Randal Kleiser

Starring:
Klaus Maria Brandauer • Ethan Hawke • Seymour Cassel • Susan Hogan • James Remar
1991

Mystery Date

Director(s):
Jonathan Wacks

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • Teri Polo • Brian McNamara • Fisher Stevens • BD Wong

1991

Dad

(Ethan Hawke plays Billy)

Director(s):
Gary David Goldberg

Starring:
Jack Lemmon • Ted Danson • Olympia Dukakis • Kathy Baker • Kevin Spacey

1990

Dead Poets Society

(Ethan Hawke plays Todd Anderson)

Director(s):
Peter Weir

Starring:
Robin Williams • Robert Sean Leonard • Ethan Hawke • Josh Charles • Gale Hansen
1989

Explorers

(Ethan Hawke plays Ben Crandall)

Director(s):
Joe Dante

Starring:
Ethan Hawke • River Phoenix • Bobby Fite • Bradley Gregg • Georg Olden
1985