"If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession."
Maya Ray Thurman Hawke (born September 12, 1998 in New York City) is an American actress and singer-songwriter best known for her role as Robin Buckley in Stranger Things. She is the daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. Along with her younger brother Levon, she has three half-sisters from her father and mother's subsequent relationships with other people after they divorced.
Filmography:
Film
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) as Linda "Flower Child" Kasabian
- Fear Street (2021) as Heather Watkins
- Do Revenge (2022) as Eleanor Levetan
- Asteroid City (2023) as June Douglas
- Maestro (2023) as Jamie Bernstein
- Inside Out 2 (2024) as Anxiety (voice)
Television
- Little Women (2017) as Jo March
- Stranger Things (2019-present) as Robin Buckley
- The Good Lord Bird (2020) as Annie Brown
- Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023) as Abyss (voice)
Tropes associated with Maya Hawke:
- Fiery Redhead: Goes hand in hand with a lot of the characters she plays.
- Lipstick Lesbian: She's played them in two roles so far: Robin in Stranger Things and Eleanor in Do Revenge.
- Ms. Fanservice: She has done modeling work for Calvin Klein and appears naked (save for a blanket at the end) among members of a forest orgy in the music video for her song "Therese". In a number of other roles, she's in either her underwear or revealing outfits at some point.
- Real-Life Relative:
- She plays Annie Brown in The Good Lord Bird, whose father is John Brown, played by her dad Ethan Hawke.
- She also shares the screen with her mother Uma Thurman in 2023's The Kill Room.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's a solid 5'8" and has definitely inherited her parents' good looks, which she's shown off in some modeling as well as her acting roles.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She bears a lot of similarities to both her parents, even having a voice that is nearly identical to her mother's.
