Levon Hawke

Levon Roan Thurman-Hawke (born January 15, 2002) is an American actor. He is the son of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, and brother of actress Maya Hawke. Early life Levon was born in 2002, the younger of two children born to actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. He was reportedly named after Levon Helm from the rock group The Band, a musical hero of his father. His parents met on the set of Gattaca (1997), married in May 1998, and divorced in 2005. Hawke has an older sister, Maya. He also has three half-sisters: two from his father and his second wife, Ryan Shawhughes, and one from his mother and her ex-fiancé, financier Arpad Busson. On his father's side, Hawke is a distant cousin of the playwright Tennessee Williams. On his mother's side, he is a grandson of Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and model Baroness Nena von Schlebrügge. Schlebrügge's mother, Birgit Holmquist, was also a model, having posed for statue Famntaget, installed in the harbour of Smygehuk in Sweden, in 1930. Hawke read philosophy at Brown University.