The poker industry tries to include celebrities in some of their events to attract serious attention all over the world. Celebrities constitute a large following in the international poker scene. It is indeed a rising segment in poker. Among the most popular celebrity poker player today is Ethan Hawke!
According to the nymag.com, the celebrity poker player Ethan Hawke headed back to his apartment, where his friend Josh Charles, a buddy from all the way back to Dead Poets Society, was crashing in Hawke’s office–slash–guest room for the duration of his run in Neil LaBute’s The Distance From Here. They listened to the new Wilco album and played some poker.
About Ethan Hawke: Actor, director, screenwriter, novelist. Born November 6, 1970, in Austin, Texas. Ethan Green Hawke (a.k.a Ethan Hawke) made his feature film debut in Joe Dante's Explorers (1985). Hawke studied acting at the British Theatre Association in England and at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He has twice enrolled in New York University's English program and is one of the founding fathers and artistic director of Malaparte, a former New York City theatre company. Malaparte productions included A Joke!; Wild Dogs; Good Evening; Sons and Fathers; It Changes Every Year; Veins and Thumbtacks; Hesh; and The Great Unwashed.
Ethan Hawke's role as the scruffy, philosophical slacker who pines for Winona Ryder in Reality Bites in 1994, directed by Ben Stiller and also featuring Janeane Garofalo and Zahn, made Hawke a heartthrob for the so-called Generation X. He expanded his moody romantic lead portfolio in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise in 1995, costarring Julie Delpy. Meanwhile, Hawke remained active with Malaparte, making his theatrical directorial debut with the company's production of Wild Dogs! in 1994. He also appeared onstage in Chicago, playing opposite Sinise in the Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play Buried Child.
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 1996, during a two-year hiatus from fillmaking, Ethan Hawke published his first novel, The Hottest State, which made him the object of some ridicule by the media despite garnering some positive reviews. In 2001, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Training Day. Ethan Hawke withstood the criticism and would go on to publish a second novel, Ash Wednesday, in 2002.
In 2005, he received his first screenwriting Oscar nomination for co-writing the 2004 film, Before Sunset which is a sequel to Before Sunrise. On March 26, 2006 Ethan Hawke's personal business office in New York City was destroyed by a fast-moving fire. He was in the middle of directing and starring in a movie version of his first novel, The Hottest State. The fire broke out in a newly renovated office on the second floor of the office building and the blaze quickly spread to the fifth floor. It destroyed Hawke's fourth-floor office and his post-production studio. Master tapes and negatives from Hawke's film were being stored off-site and were reportedly not destroyed by the fire.
Ethan Hawke's latest movie is the “Daybreakers”, a vampire flick but, vampires are all the rage these days, but who’s got the best bite? Since Robert Pattinson's Edward Cullen slays his Bella (Kristen Stewart) only metaphorically, with love, and Ethan’s character is more of bite’em and leave’em type, Daybreakers producers Sean Furst and Bryan Furs.
Ethan Hawke played as Edward Dalton – a vampire hematologist with human-friendly goals and a weary-undertaker wardrobe. Written and directed by the Spierig Brothers; director of photography, Ben Nott; edited by Matt Villa; music by Christopher Gordon; production designer, George Liddle; visual effects by Postmodern Sydney, Kanuka Studio and the Spierig Brothers; produced by Sean Furst, Bryan Furst and Chris Brown; released by Lionsgate.
