After he was slacker Troy in the 1994 film "Reality Bites" and Jesse in "Before Sunrise" (1995) with Julie Delpy (left), Ethan Hawke (right) took his turn in the spotlight. First, in 1993 as Konstantin Treplev in a revival of Anton Chekov's "The Seagull" and then in Shakespeare's "Henry IV" in 2003. Could the stage be in his blood? According to his biography on IMDb.com, Hawke is related to famed playwright Tennesse Williams.

Screen credits: "Dead Poets Society" (1989), "Great Expectations" (1998), and "Hamlet" (2000).