Leslie Carole Green: Who is Ethan Hawke's mother?

Who is Ethan Hawke’s mother?

Leslie Carole Green also known as Leslie Hawke is the mother of American actor and director Ethan Hawke. Leslie Carole Green’s son is a popular name in Hollywood. He gained the of the public with his breakthrough performance in Dead Poets Society (1989). In his role as the Protestant minister in Paul Schrader’s drama First Reformed (2017), he received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. The actor has also been nominated for numerous accolades including four Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.

Leslie Carole Green: Profile Summary

Full NameLeslie Carole Green
Other names Leslie Hawke
famous asmother of Ethan Hawke
Place of Birth United States of America
NationalityAmerican
EthnicityCaucasian
Children Ethan Hawke
spouse James Steven Hawke (m. ?–1974)

Ethan Hawke’s mother was a Social worker

Leslie Carole Green was born in the United States of America. She is the daughter of  Howard Lemuel Green. Her father served five terms in the Texas legislature (1957–67). He served as the elected Tarrant County Judge in Texas from 1967 to 1975 and was also a minor-league baseball commissioner. Ethan Hawke’s mother worked as a Social worker while his father James Steven Hawke was an insurance actuary.

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Leslie Carole Green got married at the age of 17

 Ethan Hawke’s parents got married at a very young age. His mother was 17 years old when she tied the knot with James Steven Hawke. Leslie Green and her ex-husband were high school sweethearts in Fort Worth, Texas. The actor was born a year after his parents got married. The actor’s parents were both students at the University of Texas at Austin at the time of his birth. They separated and later divorced in 1974 when Ethan Hawke was four years old.

Ethan Hawke was raised by his mother?

After Leslie Carole Green and her ex-husband called their marriage a quit, their son was raised by his mother. The mother and son relocated several times, before settling in New York City, where the Moon Knight actor attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights. Leslie found love again and got married when the actor was 10 and the family once again moved to West Windsor Township, New Jersey.

She supported her son’s career choice

As any loving mother Leslie supported her son’s career choice and offered the help she can. Hawke obtained his mother’s permission to attend his first casting call at the age of 14 and secured his first film role in Joe Dante’s Explorers (1985), in which he played an alien-obsessed schoolboy alongside River Phoenix.

The dating mother said she is happy for her son who is doing what he loves-“I’m proud of what a genuinely good – and sane – person he is. I’m glad that he’s had success in the arts because I know he would be miserable if he hadn’t been able to spend his life doing what he loves. And I’m thrilled he had four children that I get to be grandmother to.” Ethan Hawke and his mother have been spotted at various events together.

 Leslie Hawke is a humanitarian

 In 2000, Leslie Hawke (Leslie Carole Green) dedicated herself to helping children with limited opportunities and giving them the right to education. Initially, as a Peace Corp volunteer, Ethan Hawke’s mother later realized that her help was needed after she saw images of children experiencing extreme poverty.

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Leslie realized that education was the only solution for them to overcome their condition and she going to make that possible. A few years later, through the OvidiuRo Foundation and together with her team, she managed to make a national program Fiecare copil în grădiniță [Every Child in Kindergarten] in Romania.

Talking to paginadepsihologie, Leslie Carole Green said -“It didn’t ever feel like a „choicel“. Back in the spring of 2000, exactly 20 years ago, it occurred to me as I watched a waiter shoo away a little boy in a Bacau sidewalk cafe, that I wanted to dedicate my time as a Peace Corps volunteer to figuring out: (1) Why kids like that were begging on the street instead of learning in school, and (2)“

She went on-“What could be done about it?! I had no idea of the metamorphosis I and my obsession with the issue would go through over the next decade and a half, ultimately leading to early education initiatives in communities in all the counties of Romania, codified in a national law and partially funded by the government.”

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