Maya Hawke

Maya Hawke: A Rising Star in Hollywood

Maya Hawke is an American actress and singer-songwriter, born on July 8, 1998, in New York City. She is the daughter of actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, and her career has been marked by success in both acting and music.

Personal Profile About Maya Hawke

Age, Biography, and Wiki

Maya Hawke, born Maya Ray Thurman Hawke, has been active in the entertainment industry since her early teens. She began her career as a model and made her screen debut playing Jo March in the 2017 BBC adaptation of Little Women. She gained widespread recognition for her role as Robin Buckley in the Netflix series Stranger Things (2019–present). Hawke has also appeared in notable films such as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Do Revenge (2022) .

Occupation Musicians
Date of Birth 8 July 1998
Age 27 Years
Birth Place New York City, U.S.
Horoscope Cancer
Country U.S

Height, Weight & Measurements

Maya Hawke's height is reported to be around 5 feet 8½ inches (1.74 m) according to some sources, while others list it as 5 feet 7 inches (1.72 m) . There is no widely reported information on her weight.

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Dating & Relationship Status

There is limited public information available about Maya Hawke's current dating status. As a celebrity, her personal life is often kept private, and she does not frequently discuss her relationships in public interviews.

Her parents met on the set of Gattaca (1997), married in May 1998, and divorced in 2005. Hawke has a brother, Levon. She also has two half-sisters by her father's second wife, Ryan Shawhughes. She has another half-sister from her mother's ex-fiancé, financier Arpad Busson.

On her father's side, Hawke is a distant cousin of playwright Tennessee Williams. On her mother's side, she is a granddaughter of Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and model Nena von Schlebrügge. Schlebrügge's mother, Birgit Holmquist, was also a model, having posed for Axel Ebbe statue Famntaget, currently in Smygehuk in Sweden.

Like both her mother and grandmother, Hawke modelled for Vogue at the beginning of her career. She was also chosen as the face of the British fashion retailer AllSaints' 2016/2017 collection. In 2017, she starred as one of several faces in a video campaign for Calvin Klein's underwear range, directed by Sofia Coppola. In September 2022, Hawke modelled for Calvin Klein's FW22 Underwear campaign.

In 2020, Hawke starred in Gia Coppola's sophomore film, Mainstream, alongside Andrew Garfield. In the same year, she guest starred in the fifth episode of the miniseries The Good Lord Bird, which stars her father, Ethan Hawke. She stars as Annie Brown, the daughter of her father's character. In June, she appeared in Italian Studies, written and directed by Adam Leon and co-starring Vanessa Kirby. It premiered in the Tribeca Film Festival and later released on January 14, 2022. Later that month, she appeared as Heather in the Netflix horror film Fear Street Part One: 1994. In 2021, she also starred in a spin-off podcast series based on her Stranger Things character, Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins. She starred in another scripted podcast series, The Playboy Interview, in which she plays Helen Gurley Brown. In 2022, Hawke starred in Netflix's dark comedy film Do Revenge alongside Camila Mendes. In April 2022, she was cast in Bradley Cooper's biographical film about Leonard Bernstein, Maestro, co-starring Cooper and Carey Mulligan. In May, it was reported that she had been cast in the upcoming film The Kill Room alongside her mother Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson. In July, it was announced that she would guest star in Disney's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, which premiered in 2023. She appeared in the Wes Anderson romantic dramedy Asteroid City (2023) which premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival to positive reviews. She voiced the character Anxiety in the 2024 Pixar animated film Inside Out 2, the sequel to the 2015 film Inside Out. In February 2024, it was reported that Hawke would be set to star in a Billy Wilder biopic titled ''Wilder & Me. In May 2025, Hawke was announced as a part of the The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping'' cast, playing a younger version of Wiress.

In August 2019, Hawke released her first two singles, "To Love a Boy" and "Stay Open". The songs were written and recorded by Hawke and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Jesse Harris. Hawke performed a series of headlining gigs around New York City in early 2020, her first ever solo live performances as a musician. In each of these shows, Hawke was supported by Benjamin Lazar Davis, Tōth, Will Graefe and Nick Cianci respectively. On March 18, 2020, Hawke released the first single "By Myself" and announced her debut album titled Blush amid the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. Hawke wrote, "I feel like this is not a time for self-promotion. It is a time for activation, education and self-examination." The album's second single, "Coverage", was released on April 22, 2020, before its music video directed by Maya's father Ethan Hawke was released on the 28th. Initially set for release on June 19, 2020, Blush was delayed to August 21, 2020. To support the release of Blush, Hawke appeared as a musical guest for the first time in her career on The Today Show in late August 2020.

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Net Worth

Maya Hawke's net worth is not publicly disclosed, but her successful roles in Stranger Things and other films, along with her music releases, contribute to her financial success. Actors' salaries can vary widely, but she reportedly earned $6 million for her role in Stranger Things Season 5 .

Social Network

Maya Hawke is active on social media platforms, although her personal life is not extensively shared. She uses platforms like Instagram to connect with fans and promote her work.

Hawke has said that folk music has influenced her music career including artists like Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith and Joni Mitchell. She takes inspiration from "great lyricists" like Cohen and Bob Dylan as, according to her, "music is the best way to communicate poetry".

Education

Maya Hawke attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn and later pursued further education at the Juilliard School, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and spent time at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) . Despite struggling with dyslexia, she has managed to excel in her career, becoming a talented actress and musician.

In summary, Maya Hawke is a versatile artist known for her roles in Stranger Things and her music albums Blush and Moss. Born into a family of actors, she has carved out her own path in the entertainment industry while maintaining a private personal life.

Hawke has dyslexia, which resulted in her changing schools frequently during her primary education before she was finally enrolled at Saint Ann's School, a private school in Brooklyn, New York, that emphasizes artistic creativity and does not grade work. The artistic environment eventually led her to acting. Hawke also took part in summer studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York. She studied toward a BFA in acting at the Juilliard School for one year before dropping out after accepting her role in Little Women.

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