
John Hawkes
0 FOLLOWERS • 46 CREDITS • SEP 11, 1959 • 65
Biography
John Hawkes was born John Marvin Perkins in Alexandria, Minnesota, to Patricia Jeanne (Olson) and Peter John Perkins, a farmer. He is of Scandinavian and British Isles descent. John moved to Austin, Texas to begin his career as an 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.
John 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 the Lion's Gate film, A Slipping-Down Life (1999) with Guy Pearce, the psychological thriller Identity (2003) alongside John Cusack and Ray Liotta, Miami Vice (2006) with Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell, Playing God (2004), The Perfect Storm (2000), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) 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.
John lives in Los Angeles, where he writes, records and performs music with his band, "King Straggler".
Known For

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

The Practice

Psych

24

Touched by an Angel

Lost

The Naked Truth

Without a Trace

ER

Monk

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Wings

Fantasy Island

The X-Files

The Crow: Stairway to Heaven

Mann & Machine

'Til There Was You

Police Academy

Rush Hour

Congo

From Dusk Till Dawn

Flesh and Bone

Blue Streak

Contagion

True Detective

Miami Vice

American Gangster

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Silver Wolf

Deadwood

Lincoln

Eastbound & Down

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Perfect Storm

Sam's Circus

The Peanut Butter Falcon

Too Old to Die Young

Cool and the Crazy

Hardball

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Identity

Everest

Strange Frequency²

Roadracers

Winter's Bone

Scary Movie
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