Ethan Hawke

He wedded Ryan in 2008 and they have two daughters: Clementine Jane and Indiana.

Hawke was born on November 6, 1970, in Austin, Texas, to Leslie, a charity worker, and James Hawke, an insurance actuary. His parents separated in 1974 and he was raised by his mother settling in New York.

His mother remarried when he was 10 and they moved to New Jersey where he attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South and graduated from Hun School of Princeton, a secondary boarding school in 1988.

Making his stage debut at age 13 in a school production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, he appeared in many school productions. At Hun School he took acting classes at the McCarter Theatre.

After high school graduation, he studied acting at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, but dropped out to act in Dead Poets Society. He enrolled and dropped out of New York University's English program twice.

Hawke debuted in ‘Explorers’ in 1985 as an alien-obsessed schoolboy alongside River Phoenix. The film’s commercial failure hugely disappointed him. His early films include, Dad, and, White Fang, in which he played the leading role.

Theater was his "first love", and he made his Broadway debut in 1992, portraying the playwright Konstantin Treplev in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, at the Lyceum Theater in Manhattan.

Between 1992 and 1993, he co-starred in Midnight Clear, a film directed by Keith Gordon which received positive reviews and in, Alive, a survival drama based on Piers Paul Read’s book.

He starred with Winona Ryder and Ben Stiller in Stiller’s directorial debut, Reality Bites, a 1994 romantic comedy-drama film. It was well-received and is regarded as a cultural touchstone for Gen X-ers.

In Richard Linklater's 1995 drama, Before Sunrise, he plays an American who meets a young French woman on a train. They disembark and spend the night exploring Vienna and getting to know one another.

Hawke’s breakthrough performance came in 1989 as a shy student opposite Robin Williams’ inspirational English teacher in Dead Poets Society. Collecting $235 million worldwide, it is still his most commercially successful film.

In ‘Training Day’, a 2001 crime thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua, he starred alongside Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke as LAPD narcotics detectives. A box office hit, it grossed $104,876,233 worldwide.

‘Before Midnight’ was the third of the ‘Before’ series. It featured Hawke and Julie Delpy. Apart from grossing $20,737,030, it received many accolades for screenplay.