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Levon Hawke

American actor (born 2002) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Levon Roan Thurman Hawke (born January 15, 2002) is an American actor.[1] He is the son of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, and brother of actress Maya Hawke.

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Early life

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 is currently studying philosophy at Brown University.[15]

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Career

In 2020, Hawke was rumoured to have joined the cast of Stranger Things.[16] However, he was on-set to visit his sister Maya Hawke.[17] Hawke has a role in the ensemble cast of Apple TV+ anthology series The Crowded Room alongside Tom Holland.[18][19]

In July 2022, it was revealed he would make his feature film debut in the Zoë Kravitz directed Blink Twice.[20] In March 2023, he was announced to be cast as Jack in the Peter Dinklage western project The Thicket.[21] In September 2024 Levon 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.

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Filmography

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