User:Thaddeus Ballantine

I'm here as an editor to help improve content and to participate in a truly awesome project such as Wikipedia is. I consider myself to be more of an editor than a content producer. I like to find references for obscure trivia that has been flagged. I don't like excessive wikilnks. I think they are one of the coolest things about Wikipedia, but used excessively make the body text more difficult to read. Most good things in life are best in moderation. I will bring up topics in the talk section though I don't like to debate. More that likely even if you are dead wrong I won't reply or join in the discussion unless you send a private message to me. I treat this page and my sandbox as testing ground for anything or to give me something to learn. Just remember be bold and give everyone the benefit of not having doubt in them.

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Ethan Hawke (born 1970) is an American actor, author and filmmaker whose career on screen and stage has spanned over four decades. Known for his versatile range of roles—often in art films—and collaborations with director Richard Linklater, he made his film debut in Explorers (1985) and gained fame with Dead Poets Society (1989), Reality Bites (1994), Gattaca (1997) and Great Expectations (1998). He was nominated for Academy Awards for his roles in Training Day (2001), Boyhood (2014) and Blue Moon (2025), as well as for screenwriting two films from the Before trilogy (1995–2013), in which he also starred. Hawke saw commercial success with Sinister (2012), The Purge (2013), The Magnificent Seven (2016) and the Black Phone films (2021–2025). He made his Broadway debut in 1992 in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and was nominated for a Tony Award in 2007 for his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. Hawke has authored five books and has four children from his two marriages. (Full article...)