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

• 2026Heartland — Clark
• 2026Jack & Christine — Darren
• 2022Roving Woman — Gregory Milloy, Co-Producer
• 2019Deadwood: The Movie — Sol Star
• 2019End of Sentence — Frank Fogle
• 2019The Peanut Butter Falcon — Duncan
• Too Old to Die Young — Viggo
• 2018Small Town Crime — Mike Kendall
• 2018Unlovable — Jim
• Legend of Master Legend — Maser Legend
• 2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Charlie
• 2016Dr. Del — Del Canyon
• 2016Massive Attack, Tricky & 3D - Take It There — John Hawkes
• 2016Too Late — Mel Sampson
• 2015Everest — Doug Hansen
• 2015The Driftless Area — Shane
• 2014Low Down — Joe Albany
• True Detective — Hank Prior
• 2013Life of Crime — Louis Gara
• 2013Resurrection Slope — John
• 2013Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment — Father (Leaning Towards Solace)
• 2013The Pardon — Finnon 'Arkie' Burke
• 2013The Playroom — Martin Cantwell
• 2012Arcadia — Tom
• 2012Leaning Towards Solace — Father
• 2012Lincoln — Robert Latham
• 2012Outlaw Country — Tarzen Larkin
• 2012The Sessions — Mark
• 2011Contagion — Roger
• 2011Earthwork — Stan Herd
• 2011Higher Ground — CW Walker
• 2011Martha Marcy May Marlene — Patrick
• 2010Eve's Necklace — William (voice)
• 2010Everything Will Happen Before You Die — Lane, Co-Executive Producer
• 2010On Holiday — Wild Bill
• 2010Small Town Saturday Night — Donnie Carson
• 2010Winter's Bone — Teardrop
• Eastbound & Down — Dustin Powers
• 2009S. Darko — Phil
• 2008Miracle at St. Anna — Herb Redneck
• 2007American Gangster — Freddie Spearman
• 2007Welcome — Bill
• 2007Wristcutters: A Love Story — Yan
• 2006Miami Vice — Alonzo Stevens
• Psych — Rollins
• 2006The Amateurs — Moe
• 2005Me and You and Everyone We Know — Richard Swersey
• Deadwood — Sol Star
• Lost — Lennon
• 2003Harold Buttleman: Daredevil Stuntman — Harold Buttleman
• 2003Identity — Larry
• 2003Strange Frequency² — Jared (segment 'Cold Turkey')
• Monk — Matthew Teeger
• Taken — Marty Erickson
• Without a Trace — Terry Wicker
• 24 — Greg Penticoff
• 2001Hardball — Ticky Tobin
• 2001Sam's Circus — Gunner
• Strange Frequency — Songwriter
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Terry Wicker
• 2000Sand — Hardy
• 2000The Perfect Storm — Mike "Bugsy" Moran
• 1999A Slipping Down Life — David Elliot
• 1999Blue Streak — Eddie
• 1999Late Last Night — Ponzo
• 1999Silver Wolf — Randy
• 1998Boogie Boy — T-Bone
• Brimstone — Frederick Wilcot 'Willy' Graver
• Fantasy Island — Arnie White
• 1998Home Fries — Randy
• 1998I Still Know What You Did Last Summer — Dave
• Martial Law — Jake Simms
• 1998Perfect Little Angels — Jeff
• 1998Rush Hour — Stucky
• The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
• The Magnificent Seven — Morris
• 1998Where's Marlowe? — Film clerk
• 1997'Til There Was You — Gawayne
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer — George
• 1997Playing God — Flick
• 1997Steel — Mugger
• The Practice — Stuart Donovan
• Dangerous Minds
• 1996Deep in the Heart — Mac
• 1996From Dusk Till Dawn — Pete Bottoms
• Millennium — Mike Bardale
• Pacific Blue — Paul Brent
• Profit — Dr. Jeremy Batewell
• 1996Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
• The Big Easy — Wild Bill
• 1995Congo — Bob Driscoll
• 1995Night of the Scarecrow — Danny
• The Naked Truth — Duane Baldwin
• 1994Cool and the Crazy — Crazy
• 1994Dead Air — Morton
• ER — P.A.
• Rebel Highway — Nixer, Crazy
• 1994Roadracers — Nixer
• Touched by an Angel — Mason Cook
• 1993Flesh and Bone — Groom
• 1993Freaked — Cowboy
• The X-Files — Phillip Padgett
• Mann & Machine
• 1992Nails — Harvey Cassler
• 1991Scary Movie — Warren
• 1991Sweet Poison — Jimmy
• 1991The Rape of Doctor Willis — Mateson
• 1990Never Leave Nevada — Christo Chevalier
• Northern Exposure — Jason
• Wings — Mark the Waiter
• 1989Rosalie Goes Shopping — Schnucki Greenspace
• A Taste for Death — Tony
• 1988Bar-B-Que Movie — Jerry - Dad
• 1988D.O.A. — Sloane
• 1988Dakota — Rooster
• 1988Heartbreak Hotel — M.C.
• 1988It Takes Two — Thief #2
• 1988Johnny Be Good — Pizza Boy #1
• 1988Murder Rap — Christopher
• 1985Future-Kill — The Light Man
• 1984Police Academy — Driver of Teskey Truck (uncredited)
• Dead Beat
• How and Why — Goodman Hesselman
• Path Lights — Bobby

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2026Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt — Self
• 2012Kingdom Come — Self