Maya Ray Thurman Hawke Bio
Maya Ray Thurman Hawke is an American actress and singer-songwriter born on July 8, 1998, in New York City. The daughter of actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, she began her public career in modeling before moving into acting and music, earning recognition on screen and as a recording artist.
Early Life and Background
Maya Ray Thurman Hawke was born and raised in New York City as the elder child of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. Her parents met on the set of Gattaca and married in 1998; they later divorced in 2005. Hawke grew up in a family with strong ties to the arts and literature; her maternal grandfather is Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and her maternal grandmother is model Nena von Schlebrügge.
Hawke experienced schooling adjustments in childhood related to dyslexia and attended Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, which emphasizes artistic creativity and does not grade work. She supplemented her training with summer study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York, and she enrolled at the Juilliard School to study toward a BFA in acting before leaving after a year to accept a screen role.
Path to Celebrity
Hawke’s early exposure to performance and fashion led to work as a model for Vogue and campaigns for AllSaints and Calvin Klein. Modeling provided visibility that helped bridge to screen work, and she pursued stage and screen training that prepared her for dramatic roles. Her family background and arts education positioned her to move quickly from modeling into substantive acting opportunities.
Musical influences shaped her parallel path as a singer-songwriter; she has cited folk and literary lyricists as touchstones and began releasing recorded music while developing her screen career. Hawke balanced modeling, music and auditions before securing roles that expanded her profile in film and television.
Maya Hawke Career
Early Career (2016–2018)
Hawke began working professionally in the mid 2010s, appearing in fashion campaigns for the British retailer AllSaints and in a 2017 video campaign for Calvin Klein directed by Sofia Coppola. Her formal screen acting debut came in 2017 when she played Jo March in the BBC miniseries adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, a role that prompted industry attention and led to additional offers.
Following her BBC debut, Hawke took on a range of independent and festival films, including the thriller Ladyworld, and she continued to build her craft through stage and screen opportunities. Her early career choices combined literary adaptation, independent cinema and festival projects, which established her as a capable young performer in dramatic material.
Breakthrough (2019–present)
Hawke achieved mainstream recognition in 2019 with two high-profile releases. She joined the third season of the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things as Robin Buckley, a role that expanded her international audience and generated significant critical and fan attention. In the same year she appeared in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Linda Kasabian, credited in the film as ‘Flowerchild’, further raising her profile in feature cinema.
After 2019, Hawke continued to work steadily across film, television and audio. She appeared in the Netflix horror film Fear Street Part One: 1994, released in 2021, and in the 2022 dark comedy Do Revenge. In 2023 she appeared in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City and in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro. Hawke also expanded into voice work, providing a role in the 2024 Pixar animated film Inside Out 2.
Concurrently with her acting, Hawke developed a public musical career. She released her debut singles in 2019 and her first album, Blush, in 2020. She followed with the album Moss in 2022 and recorded a third studio album released as Chaos Angel in 2024. Hawke has performed live in New York City and appeared on national television programs to support her music releases.
Notable Works and Milestones
Key milestones in Hawke’s career include her acting debut as Jo March in the BBC adaptation of Little Women, her breakout television role as Robin Buckley on Stranger Things, and feature appearances in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Asteroid City. Musically, the release of Blush and subsequent albums marked her emergence as a recording artist, with music videos and televised performances supporting those releases.
Maya Hawke Award Nominations
There are no aggregated award nomination totals verified in the provided sources. Hawke’s work has received attention from critics and festival audiences, and she has appeared in films and series that have been discussed in awards contexts, but no consolidated, fully verified nomination counts are provided here.
Maya Hawke Awards Won
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Maya Hawke Family
Hawke is the daughter of actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. She has a younger brother, Levon, and additional half-siblings from her parents’ subsequent relationships. Her maternal lineage includes scholar Robert Thurman and model Nena von Schlebrügge.
Personal Life
Maya Hawke has spoken publicly about living with dyslexia and its effect on her education; she attended Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn and pursued acting training at recognized institutions before enrolling at Juilliard for one year. Hawke lives a professional life that spans acting, music and occasional modeling projects; details about partners or children are not provided in the verified source material and are therefore omitted.
In recent years Hawke has balanced film and television work with recorded music, releasing albums in 2020, 2022 and 2024 and appearing on televised programs to support those releases. Announced future projects include leading roles reported for biographical films and castings announced for 2024 and 2025, reflecting a continuing trajectory across disciplines.