If you watched Season Three of Stranger Things and thought, “Wow, that actress Maya Hawke sure does look familiar,” you were correct. Not because you had seen her in anything, but rather, because you probably know of her parents, Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, the latter of whom, she looks exactly like. Maya told WSJ Magazine that having famous actor parents has its advantages. “I’m always running decisions by them,” she said. “Hopefully, it’ll keep me from making some mistakes that young actors can make.”
Naturally, some of those decisions were career-based, which led to her breakout role in the hit Netflix series. Maya told Who What Wear (via Yahoo! Lifestyle) in 2019 just how pivotal her mom was to that success. “My mom has been giving me advice on how to act on that set or any set through a process of leading by example and showing me what it means to be a productive collaborator on set, a good worker, kind person, a good listener,” she revealed. “I’ve gotten to watch her work my whole life so, you know, it wasn’t like she gave me a couple coins of advice. I got to watch her my whole life, and so I have had wonderful teachers.”
