Ethan Hawke Trivia

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Birth name: Ethan Green Hawke 

Date of birth: 6 November 1970 

Place of birth: Austin, Texas, USA 

Height: 5′ 10½” (1.79 m) 

Spouse: Ryan Shawhughes (18 June 2008 – present) 1 child, Uma Thurman (1 May 1998 – 20 July 2004) (divorced) 2 children 

• Attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School in Central New Jersey, but is not pictured in the yearbook (1984-86).
• Daughter, with Uma Thurman, Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke. [8 July 1998]
• Graduated from the Hun School of Princeton. [1988]
• Published his first novel, “The Hottest State,” in 1996 (the novel sold for $400,000 to Little, Brown and Company).
• Was in a production of “Great Expectations” at West Windsor Plainsboro High School.
• Was accepted by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Drama in Pittsburgh, PA, but dropped out after only 5 months.
• Proposed to wife Uma Thurman twice before she said yes.
• His brother is a Green Beret.
• Welcomed second child, Roan, a boy on January 15, 2002. The baby weighed 7lbs 15oz.
• Childhood friend of director Bryan Singer (_The Usual Suspects_ ; X-Men (2000))
• The cat appearing in the Lisa Loeb music-video “Stay”, which he directed, is his own.
• Has appeared in two film adaptations of William Wharton novels: Dad (1989) and A Midnight Clear (1992).
• He was the original choice to play FBI Agent Will Graham in Red Dragon (2002), but turned the role down to take time off from making movies.
• His parents were University of Texas students when Ethan was born, and they separated when he was three.
• Says that he is constantly mistaken for Mark McGrath from “Sugar Ray” so often that he signs autographs as “Mark McGrath” and, apparently, the same thing happens to Mark McGrath who, in turn, signs autographs as “Ethan Hawke” to fans.
• Met and became friends with River Phoenix during the making of Explorers (1985).
• When he was in the seventh grade, he played “Lon” in West Windsor-Plainsboro junior high school production of the play “Meet Me in St. Louis”.
• Remains close friends with Dead Poets Society (1989) co-stars, Robert Sean Leonard and Josh Charles.
• Attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York for one year.
• First cousin twice removed of Tennessee Williams. Hawke’s great grandfather and Williams’ father were brothers.
• Is close friends with actor/director Frank Whaley, whom he met while filming A Midnight Clear (1992).
• On father’s day 2004 he went to a Yankees game with his kids
• Is a big fan of the Star Wars movie series
• Hawke married for a second time in June 2008, wedding Ryan Shawhughes, the former nanny to his and Thurman’s children. The wedding came a few weeks before the birth of Hawke and Shawhughes’s daughter, Clementine Jane Hawke, on July 18, 2008.
• In 2009, Hawke appeared in two plays under British director Sam Mendes: as Trofimov in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, and as Autolycus in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.
• In January 2010, Hawke directed his second play, A Lie of the Mind, by Sam Shepard on the New York stage. It was the first major Off-Broadway revival of the play since its 1985 premiere.
• Hawke star as Starbuck, the first officer of the Pequod whaleship, in a television adaptation of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick 2011.