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John Hawkes is an American actor born in Alexandria, Minnesota, in 1959. He has worked in film and television, primarily within the drama fiction and thriller genres. His career began in 1985, and he has been educated at St. Cloud State University. Hawkes speaks and writes in English. He has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
There are other individuals named John Hawkes. One was born in 1925 and died in 1998, with works including plays and miscellaneous texts. Another is a male artist from the United Kingdom associated with pop rock and acoustic genres. This musician has a playcount of 20,923 and is tagged with soundtrack music.
Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, OpenAlex, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 17 August 1925
- Died
- 15 May 1998.
- Works
- 72
Top works
- Works of John Hawkes and other miscellaneous authors collected by Roger E. Stoddard
- plays for a new theater
- Le gluau
- Aman ha-teshuḳah
- The frog
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Alexandria, Minnesota, USA
John Hawkes (born John Marvin Perkins; September 11, 1959) is an American actor and musician. He co-founded the Big State Productions Theatre Company and appeared in the group's original play, "In the West", at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He took on the stage name "John Hawkes" because another actor shared his birth name, John Perkins. Hawkes starred in the critically-acclaimed, Me…
Known for
- Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt2025
- Roving Woman — Gregory Milloy2022
- The Peanut Butter Falcon — Duncan2019
- End of Sentence — Frank Fogle2019
- Deadwood: The Movie — Sol Star2019
- Too Old to Die Young — Viggo2019
- Small Town Crime — Mike Kendall2018
- Unlovable — Jim2018
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Charlie2017
- Legend of Master Legend — Maser Legend2017
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1959
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,674
- Total plays
- 20,923
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Hawkes">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 2,479
- Cited by
- 143,584
Research areas
Most cited works
- Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 3. Higgs Properties2013 · 523 cit
- The Globally Competent Engineer: Working Effectively with People Who Define Problems Differently2006 · 487 cit
- Boosted objects: a probe of beyond the standard model physics2011 · 365 cit
- Relationship between the structural and magnetic properties of Co-doped<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">Sn</mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">O</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math>nanoparticles2005 · 277 cit
- Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 3. Higgs Properties2013 · 268 cit
via OpenAlex · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,552x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,600x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,901x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,568x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,128x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1959-09-11 ) September 11, 1959 (age 66)
- Alma mater
- St. Cloud State University
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1984–present
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Alexandria
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- St. Cloud State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- thriller
- Image
- JohnHawkesHS2009.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- John Hawkes (actor)
- date of birth
- 1959-09-11
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- name in native language
- John Hawkes
- start of work period
- 1985-00-00
- writing language
- English language
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
John Hawkes (born September 11, 1959) is an American actor. He is the recipient of two Independent Spirit Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
Hawkes is known for his roles in the films Winter's Bone (2010) and The Sessions (2012), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, respectively. Some of his other film credits include From Dusk till Dawn (1996), The Perfect Storm (2000), Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), American Gangster (2007), Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), Lincoln (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). He has also appeared in many television series, notably Deadwood (2004–2006) and Eastbound & Down (2009–2013), as well as the fourth season of True Detective (2024).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Hawkes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.