Ethan Hawke Biography
In 1988, he started out studying drama at Carnegie Mellon University, but he dropped out after only a few months to play a high school student in the film adaptation of the novel Dead Poets Society (1989). A charismatic English professor played by Robin Williams, the picture was well received by critics. At the age of 25, Hawke had already featured in 15 films, including the 1991 adaptation of Jack London’s classic White Fang. The drama film Alive (1993) is based on the true story of an Uruguayan rugby team’s fight for survival after their plane crashes in the Andes.
In Richard Linklater’s 1995 romance film Before Sunrise, starring Ethan Hawke, Hawke and two other tourists aboard a train spend a day together. In the sci-fi film Gattaca released three years later, he co-starred with Uma Thurman, whom he had married in 1998 and divorced in 2004. Hawke’s other films from the 1990s include the adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1998), Linklater’s The Newton Boys, which follows the exploits of a gang of 1920s Texas bank robbers, and Snow falling on Cedars. After that, he appeared in Hamlet (2000), a contemporary film version of Shakespeare’s play.
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