Levon Hawke

Levon was born in 2002,^[2] the younger of two children born to actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. He was reportedly named after Levon Helm from the rock group The Band, a musical hero of his father.^[3] His parents met on the set of Gattaca (1997), married in May 1998,^[4] and divorced in 2005.^[5] Hawke has an older sister, Maya.^[6][7] He also has three half-sisters: two from his father and his father's second wife, Ryan Shawhughes,^[8] and one from his mother and her ex-fiancé, financier Arpad Busson.^[9] Through his mother, he has German and Swedish ancestry.^[10]

On his father's side, Hawke is a distant cousin of the playwright Tennessee Williams.^[11] On his mother's side, he is a grandson of Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and model Nena von Schlebrügge.^[12][13] Schlebrügge's mother, Birgit Holmquist, was also a model, having posed for Axel Ebbe's statue Famntaget, installed in the harbour of Smygehuk in Sweden, in 1930.^[14]

Hawke attended Brown University, graduating with a degree in philosophy.^[15][16]

In 2020, Hawke was rumoured to have joined the cast of Stranger Things.^[17] However, he was on-set to visit his sister Maya Hawke.^[18] Hawke has a role in the ensemble cast of Apple TV+ anthology series The Crowded Room alongside Tom Holland.^[19][20]

In July 2022, it was revealed he would make his feature film debut in the Zoë Kravitz directed Blink Twice.^[21] In March 2023, he was announced to be cast as Jack in the Peter Dinklage western project The Thicket.^[22] In September 2024, Hawke made his directorial debut with Picture Day, a play written by him and performed at Coffey Street Studios and produced by Quick & Dirty Theatre Company.^[23] In the 2025 Josh Safdie film Marty Supreme, he plays Christian, a man swindled by Marty Mauser.

Hawke has recently been cast in Hayley Kiyoko's film directorial debut Girls Like Girls and Molly Gordon's A24 comedy film Peaked.^[24][25]