| After a year of college in Minnesota, moved to Austin, TX, where he co-founded Big State Productions, a theater company that provided Hawkes with the opportunity to write, di |
| Wrote and performed a one-man show, Nimrod Soul, at Los Angeles' Theatre at the Improv in 1994. |
| Breakout film role was Bugsy, a dim-witted fisherman who provided comic relief in the hit drama The Perfect Storm (2000). |
| First major film role came in 1987 with the low-budget crime drama Murder Rap. |
| Subsequently landed series-regular roles on the HBO series Deadwood and Eastbound & Down. |