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Ethan Hawke is an American actor. His film debut, alongside River Phoenix, came at age 14 in the little-seen science fiction movie "Explorers". After high school, Hawke enrolled in Carnegie Mellon University to study acting, only to drop out after landing the part of Todd Anderson in "Dead Poets Society". He went on to star in the films "Dad", "White Fang", "Waterland" and "A Midnight Clear". He co-starred with Uma Thurman, whom he would marry in 1998, in the eugenics science fiction movie "Gattaca". In 2001 Hawke received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "Training Day".
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The sensitive guy is now the tough guy: Ethan Hawke picks up a gun and grit for Assault on Precinct 13, playing a Detroit police sergeant trapped on New Year's Eve in a battle with crooked cops and prisoners. It's a role that 10 years ago would have been unlikely for the goateed star known for long walks along the Seine (Before Sunrise) and rejecting the establishment (Reality Bites). But since doing 2001's Training Day – for which he earned an Oscar nod – mainstream moviemaking has become acceptable in his book. "My taste has kind of expanded," Hawke, 34, says. The father of two (with ex-wife Uma Thurman) recently chatted about going commercial, playing the action star and chalking it all up to good fortune.
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In an interview appearing in this weekend's Parade magazine, Ethan Hawke hints at the circumstances surrounding his 2004 split from wife Uma Thurman, with whom he has two children, ages 8 and 4. Confessing that he "never wanted to be too hot,” but instead prefers to fly under the radar, Hawke says being wed to another celebrity took its toll. "I didn’t like being famous when I was single, and what it did to my celebrity status to be married to another famous person was a huge pressure," he shares. "One I didn’t enjoy." Citing half of today's most headline-making duo, Hawke marvels, "I don’t know how Brad Pitt does it.” read more
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After undergoing an intense exercise regimen with a personal trainer, Hawke returned to the screen looking buff for his first "adult" role in the futuristic thriller "Gattaca" (1997), his biggest-budget feature to that time. He delivered a strong performance as a genetically-inferior man who assumes the identity of a superior athlete in order to realize his dream of space travel. He ... got the girl on screen and off, later marrying co-star Uma Thurman. Alfonso Cuaron's modern-day version of "Great Expectations" (also 1997) teamed him romantically with Gwyneth Paltrow and gave him a chance to act with Robert De Niro, though the box office numbers were uninspiring. He then reteamed with Linklater alongside Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich and Vincent D'Onofrio for the Texas director's biopic of the bank-robbing "The Newton Boys" (1998), playing Jess Newton, the drunken, charming brother. He also had small roles in "The Velocity of Gary", which reunited him with executive producer-star D'Onofrio, and in "Joe the King" (both 1999), the feature directorial debut of his Malaparte.
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Ethan Hawke - yes, the scruffy, slightly bohemian actor from films such as Training Day and Reality Bites - isn't content to act, direct and enjoy married life with the lovely Uma Thurman. He's back with a second novel, Ash Wednesday, six years after delivering The Hottest State, a fiction debut that fans loved and reviewers loved to hate. Critics are no doubt sharpening the knives again, ready to take the Hollywood hottie down a peg or two.
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Ethan Hawke and his girlfriend, Ryan Shawhughes, are expecting a baby. [Ethan, 37, and Ryan, 28, first met when she worked as a nanny for the actor during his marriage to Uma Thurman, according to In Touch]
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