Maya Hawke is an American actress, model and singer.
Born in New York, she is the daughter of actors Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. Her parents met on the set of Gattaca - The Gateway to the Universe (1997) and got married in 1998, and then divorced in 2005. His younger brother Levon was born in 2002. She also has two half-sisters born from her father's second marriage to Ryan Shawhughes. She has another half-sister born in 2012 from her mother's relationship with financier Arpad Busson.
Hawke suffers from dyslexia, which forced her to change schools frequently during her primary education, before enrolling in the Saint Ann's Schoola public school in Brooklyn. He took part in summer studies at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art of London and the renowned Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York. He also studied at the Juilliard School, but left it after a year to pursue his first roles.
Early in her career she posed as a model for Vogue. She was later chosen as testimonial for the collection of the British fashion brand AllSaints. In 2017, together with Kirsten Dunst and Lauren Hutton, she starred in of the black and white advertising campaign for Calvin Klein's spring/summer underwear line, directed by Sofia Coppola.
In 2017 she got the part of Jo March in the TV miniseries Little WomenBBC adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. She later played a small part in Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood. In 2019, he joined the cast of the third season of the Netflix series Stranger Thingsin which he plays the role of Robin.
In August 2019, he released two singles To Love a Boy / Stay Open, written and recorded in collaboration with singer-songwriter Jesse Harris. In March 2020 he released the single By Myselfwhich anticipates his debut album Blushscheduled for publication on 19 June 2020 only to be postponed until 20 August 2020 following protests by the Black Lives Matter movement. In September 2022, he released his second album Moss.
