Levon Hawke
Levon Roan Thurman-Hawke is an American actor. He is the son of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, and younger brother of actress Maya Hawke.
Early life
Levon was born in 2002, 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. His parents met on the set of Gattaca, married in May 1998, and divorced in 2005. Hawke has an older sister, Maya. He also has three half-sisters: two from his father and his father's second wife, Ryan Shawhughes, and one from his mother and her ex-fiancé, financier Arpad Busson. Through his mother, he has German and Swedish ancestry.On his father's side, Hawke is a distant cousin of the playwright Tennessee Williams. On his mother's side, he is a grandson of Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and model Nena von Schlebrügge. 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.
Hawke attended Brown University, graduating with a degree in philosophy.
Career
In 2020, Hawke was rumoured to have joined the cast of Stranger Things. However, he was on-set to visit his sister Maya Hawke. Hawke has a role in the ensemble cast of Apple TV+ anthology series The Crowded Room alongside Tom Holland.In July 2022, it was revealed he would make his feature film debut in the Zoë Kravitz directed Blink Twice. In March 2023, he was announced to be cast as Jack in the Peter Dinklage western project The Thicket.
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. In the Josh Safdie film Marty Supreme, he plays Christian, a man swindled by Marty Mauser.