
John Hawkes
0 FOLLOWERS • 51 CREDITS • SEP 11, 1959 • 66
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

The Naked Truth

Lost

Northern Exposure

The Magnificent Seven

Without a Trace

ER

Monk

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Wings

Fantasy Island

The X-Files

Profit

The Crow: Stairway to Heaven

Mann & Machine

Police Academy

'Til There Was You

Rush Hour

Congo

Too Old to Die Young

From Dusk Till Dawn

Nails

Flesh and Bone

Blue Streak

Contagion

Miami Vice

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

American Gangster

Silver Wolf

Deadwood

True Detective

Everest

Eastbound & Down

Lincoln

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Perfect Storm

Sam's Circus

Hardball

The Peanut Butter Falcon

Cool and the Crazy

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Higher Ground

Identity

Roadracers

Strange Frequency²

Winter's Bone

Scary Movie
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