Maya Hawke
American actress and singer (born 1998)
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Key Takeaways
- Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke (born July 8, 1998) is an American actress and singer-songwriter.
- She gained international recognition for starring as Robin Buckley in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2019–2025).
- As a musician, she has released the albums Blush (2020), Moss (2022), and Chaos Angel (2024).
- Her parents met on the set of Gattaca (1997), married in May 1998, and divorced in 2005.
- She also has two half-sisters by her father's second wife, Ryan Shawhughes, and another half-sister from her mother's ex-fiancé, financier Arpad Busson.
Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke (born July 8, 1998) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. The daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, she began her career in modeling, and subsequently made her screen debut as Jo March in the 2017 BBC adaptation of Little Women. She gained international recognition for starring as Robin Buckley in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2019–2025).
Hawke appeared in the films Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021), Do Revenge (2022), Asteroid City (2023), Maestro (2023), and Wildcat (2023), and had a voice role in Inside Out 2 (2024). As a musician, she has released the albums Blush (2020), Moss (2022), and Chaos Angel (2024).
Early life
Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke was born on July 8, 1998, in New York City, to actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. Her parents met on the set of Gattaca (1997), married in May 1998, and divorced in 2005. Hawke has a younger brother, Levon. She also has two half-sisters by her father's second wife, Ryan Shawhughes, and 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's statue Famntaget, currently in Smygehuk in Sweden.
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