Ethan Hawke is best known for his leading roles in Hollywood films. However, this American actor is a man of many talents. Adding to his list of accomplishments, Hawke is a writer, who released three novels from 1996 to 2015, and a director with three off-Broadway plays and a documentary under his belt.
As a 14-year old teenager, Hawke attended his first casting call and landed a role in the 1985 film, Explorers. The reviews were decent, but the box office revenues were bad, causing him to leave acting for a short time. The famous actor has been quoted as saying, “I would never recommend that a kid act.”
Hawke played a starring role in the 2014 hit, Cymbeline, a film created from a play written by William Shakespeare. This version of the story is about a war between a powerful biker gang, a group of corrupt police officers, and a drug lord who is forced to do everything he must to fight back. Corruption, cash, and dirty dealings are their common language.
The Woman in the Fifth showed a new side to Hawke’s acting abilities as he played a somewhat unconfident, struggling writer named Tom Ricks. After a troubling divorce blamed on his mental condition, he finds himself in Paris, deeply infatuated with a mysterious and confident woman, who seems to reciprocate his lust. Nothing is quite as it appears in this drama-filled tale.
Hawke played a stern Major Egan of the U.S. air force in 2014’s Good Kill. He is cold with knowledge and experience. Trying to balance a typical suburban home life with his wife and kids in Las Vegas proves to be as difficult as leading a double life. Combat and depths of emotions fill the screen at nearly every moment.
