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Ethan Hawke: River Phoenix
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Ethan Hawke (November 6, 1970 - ) is an American actor born in Austin, Texas to James Steven Hawke and Leslie Carol Green. Young students at the University of Texas, at the time of Hawke's birth, the couple divorced within four years when Hake was three years old. Hawke and his mother settled in Princeton, New Jersey when he was ten years old. He attended Windsor Plainsboro High School and the Hun School of Princeton. He became interested in drama while in school and appeared in a Princeton University Theater production. This led to an audition for his first movie at age fourteen, Explorers in which he starred with River Phoenix.
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Born November 6, 1970, in Austin, TX, to teenage parents who separated when he was a toddler, Hawke was raised by his mother. The two led an itinerant existence until she married again, and the family settled in Princeton Junction, NJ. There Hawke began to study acting at Princeton's McCarter Theatre, and at the age of 14, he made his film debut in Explorers (1985). A sci-fi fantasy flick that starred the actor alongside River Phoenix, it didn't make much of an impact upon its theatrical release, but thanks to the presence of both Hawke and Phoenix, it went on to a second life on cable.
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Hawke was just 14 when he made his first film, The Explorers, in 1985 with River Phoenix. But it was his appearance four years later in Dead Poets Society, playing a tortured young student opposite Robin Williams's hammy English professor, that properly announced his arrival.
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