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Ethan Hawke: Acting
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Hawke was born in Austin, Texas, the son of Leslie Carole (née Green) and James Steven Hawke. His maternal grandfather, Howard Lemuel Green, served five terms in the Texas Legislature and was a minor league baseball commissioner.[1] Hawke's parents were students at the University of Texas at the time of his birth, and separated five years later.[2] When he was ten, he moved with his mother from Atlanta to New York, where he attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights and then moved to West Windsor, New Jersey, where he attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South.[2] He transferred to and graduated from the Hun School of Princeton in 1988.[3] He took acting classes at the McCarter Theatre. His first paid role was at the age of twelve, in McCarter's production of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.
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Hawke began to study acting at Princeton's prestigious McCarter Theater, eventually landing his first professional job in the theater's performance of St. Joan. In high school Hawke performed in a number of stage productions including the roles of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Tom in The Glass Menagerie. He studied theater in England with the British Theater Association and at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He performed in the play The Seagull at the National Actors Theater and in Jonathan Marc Sherman's Sophistry. In Chicago, Hawke starred in the Steppenwolf production of Sam Shepard's Buried Child, directed by Gary Sinise.
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Hawke is better known for his dramatic roles and has starred in Training Day alongside Denzel Washington. The role earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other high profile roles include Assault on Precinct Thirteen, Snow Falling on Cedars and Lord of War alongside Nicolas Cage.
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Ethan Hawke the actor's first novel is an accomplished book exploring obsessive first love. William meets Sarah in a bar and they hit it off. William falls in love with neurotic and troubled Sarah, but it is a one-sided love. The novel explores obsession, spontaneity, the compulsion of passion and ultimately William's psychological breakdown after being rejected by Sarah.
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While messy divorces aren't uncommon in Hollywood, Hawke never makes disparaging remarks about his gorgeous ex. "She's my children's mother. You have to keep that above anything else." Spoken like a true gentleman. You hear that, Alec Baldwin?!
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Always passionate and opinionated, Hawke is definitely less fiery and pointed than he was as a younger man, as he himself would be the first to say. So, when adapting a book he wrote more than a decade ago, Hawke found himself identifying less with William, the besotted young hero, and more with the father whom William struggles to confront and connect with.
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