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Actor John Hawkes

John Hawks is an American actor and musician. On his account, not one dozen episodic roles. In 2011 John Hawks played his most vivid role. For participation in the movie "Winter Bone", the actor was awarded the Oscar nomination.

early years

John Hawks (nee John Marvin Perkins) was born on September 11, 1959. The actor has British and Scandinavian roots. Born Hawks in Alexandria, located near the industrial city of St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota. John's childhood was calm, serene. However, like the early years of the majority of inhabitants of picturesque Alexandria. John's fate was predetermined. He had to acquire a stable profession, acquire a family and spend the best years in a quiet provincial town. But it turned out that this is not the life that he dreamed of.

About how Perkins became Hawks

Soon after leaving school in 1977, John moved to the major administrative center of Texas - the city of Austin. Here he enters the theatrical stage, begins to seriously take a great interest in music. After a short time, John was already performing at the Kennedy Center in Washington. To not be confused with the actor-namesake, the hero of today's narrative took to himself the creative pseudonym Houks, under which he became later known in theatrical milieu.

Musical career

The creative path of John Hawks did not begin with the movie. Although he dreamed of acting from childhood, on the set was accidental. However, the film debut happened in 1994. And before him the name of the hero of this article in the US was already quite famous.

The musical community John Hawks remembered his participation in the group Meat Joy in conjunction with Gretchen Phillips. The collective achieved some success, having traveled half America. Later the creative ways of the musicians dispersed. In the middle of the two thousandth, John found himself in the team of King Straggler, the melancholic texts of which were equally well suited to both the saintly people and the carefree wanderers. Recently, Hawks is working on material for the debut solo album.

The beginning of film career

As an actor, John Hawks made his debut in the movie "Racers". But the first screen tests took place in the late eighties and limited to minor, episodic roles. In 1988, the actor starred in the films "Hotel Broken Hearts" and "Dead on Arrival." The following year, the screen shot a film "Rosalie goes shopping." The last project in the same 1989 claimed the main prize of the Cannes Film Festival.

Beginning in the nineties, the actor met roles in numerous serials, which included the "X-Files" list. More significant tapes appeared in the Hawks record at the end of the decade. He starred in Tarantino ("From Dusk Till Dawn"), played along with Hollywood stars like George Clooney, Jackie Chan and Guy Pearce.

At the height of glory

The new millennium met John with notable roles in successful projects. First of all, he got one of the main roles in the TV series Deadwood, which appeared on the screens since 2004 for three years. He acted as an actress in both "Identification" (2003) and "Gangster" (2007). On the set this time, he was able to collaborate with John Cusack, Amanda Pete, Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington.

However, the most successful work of zero for the actor was the main role in the film "Me and you and everyone we know" directed by Miranda Julia. The film in 2005 was marked by four awards of the Cannes Film Festival.

"The Winter Bone"

In 2011, John Hawks was first awarded the Oscar nomination. Critics appreciated his performance in the drama "Winter Bone", where the actor played the role of the father of the family, a drug dealer who had freed himself from prison and left his children to their fate.

The main character, Ryo Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence), the whole film pays for his father's mistakes, not forgetting to take care of his younger brother and sister. The picture turned out to be an anguish, as any drama is supposed, and John Hawks (photo above - frame from "Winter's Dice") extremely convincingly revealed a negative, reckless character. In general, the picture, along with the Hawks nomination, claimed the gold statuette in three other categories, including as the "Best Film of the Year".

Two years later, in 2013, the actor's work was again marked by prestigious nominations. This time, luck caught the character of Hawks in the movie "Surrogate." The main role in the project was put forward for the presentation of the Golden Globe and the Guild of Actors Prize. He also starred in the Oscar-winning Lincoln and the 2015 film Everest.

At the moment, the actor lives in Los Angeles, where he continues as an artistic and musical career. John Hawks, whose personal life is very interested in the representatives of the yellow press, lives by no means alone. However, he prefers not to advertise his intimate relations. With journalists, he talks exclusively on the theme of musical and acting.

What other pictures did John Hawks remember?

Films

  1. "Steel".
  2. "Ambulance".
  3. "Peak hour".
  4. "Boogie fight."
  5. "These are the pies."
  6. "The diamond policeman."
  7. "Sand".
  8. "Life on an Incline".
  9. "The perfect storm."
  10. "Surrogate".

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