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Ethan
Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is a two-time Academy
Award-nominated American actor, writer and film director. In 1988,
Hawke was cast in a role in director Peter Weir's Dead Poets
Society; the film's success was considered Hawke's breakthrough.
He left school and appeared in A Midnight Clear, Alive, Reality
Bites, Before Sunrise, Gattaca, The Newton Boys, Great
Expectations, and many other movies. In 2001, he was nominated for
an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in
Training Day. Hawke directed Chelsea Walls and has written two
novels, The Hottest State (in 1996) and Ash Wednesday (in 2002).
In 2005, he received his first screenwriting Oscar nomination for
co-writing the 2004 film, Before Sunset (a sequel to Before
Sunrise). From October 2006 through May 2007, he was in The Coast
of Utopia by Tom Stoppard at Lincoln Center in New York, playing
Mikhail Bakunin. For this performance, he was nominated for a Tony
Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. On January 30, 2008,
Hawke announced he is about to become a father again, this time
with Ryan Shawhughes, described as the former nanny to his
children with X-Wife Uma
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