John Hawkes
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 and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which received wide praise and was awarded the special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Camera d'Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Additional feature credits include A Slipping-Down Life (1999), Identity (2003), Miami Vice (2006), Playing God (2004), The Perfect Storm (2000), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and Caçadores de Perigo (1997). Hawkes also starred in and co-produced the independent film, Buttleman (2003), for which he received a Breakout Performance Award at the 2004 Sedona Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at the 2003 Deep Ellum Film Festival. Hawkes' television credits include a lead role in the critically-acclaimed HBO series, Deadwood (2004), in which he played "Sol Star", a spirited entrepreneur in a lawless town.
Filmography (35)
Roving Woman
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Deadwood: The Movie
End of Sentence
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Too Late
Everest
Life of Crime
Lincoln
The Sessions
Contagion
Higher Ground
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Winter's Bone
S. Darko
Miracle at St. Anna
American Gangster
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Miami Vice
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Identity
Hardball
The Perfect Storm
Blue Streak
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Rush Hour
Home Fries
Steel
Playing God
From Dusk Till Dawn
Congo
Freaked
Flesh and Bone
D.O.A.
