Maya Hawke’s portrayal of Robin Buckley, the quirky Hawkins teen who befriends Steve Harrington within the third season of “Stranger Issues,” rapidly made her a fan favourite. Because it seems, Maya’s foray into the Upside Down wasn’t her intro to Hollywood, although; she’s been round purple carpet royalty her complete life. The 24-year-old actor is the kid of two main stars, Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke.

Thurman is finest recognized for her roles as Mia in “Pulp Fiction” and The Bride in “Kill Invoice: Quantity 1” and “Kill Invoice: Quantity 2.” Ethan is understood for enjoying Jesse within the Earlier than trilogy and starred within the June 2022 horror movie “The Black Cellphone.” The pair met on the set of “Gattaca” in 1996 and married in 1998. They’d two youngsters, Maya and Levon Hawke, earlier than separating in 2003 and divorcing in 2005. Ethan later married Ryan Shawhughes, and the pair went on to have two daughters, Clementine Jane Hawke and Indiana Hawke. Thurman has one different baby, daughter Luna, with ex-fiancé Arpad Busson.

Although she is the kid of two main stars, Maya stated her dad and mom initially discouraged her from pursuing performing. “They have been cautious of the general public life facet of performing and the difficulties of that,” she instructed The Guardian in 2021. “Additionally they tried to guard me from falling into performing. They wished to make sure I had a powerful sufficient spine, my very own ardour for it and work ethic. They did not need to cart me alongside each purple carpet or have me do bit-parts of their films.” However Maya discovered her personal means.

She starred as Jo March within the 2017 BBC adaption of “Little Ladies,” and in 2019, she performed Manson member of the family Linda Kasabian in Quentin Tarantino‘s “As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood.” That very same yr, she made her debut in “Stranger Issues.” No matter their preliminary reservations, dad and mom Ethan and Thurman have since supported their daughter’s performing endeavors. “Girls & Gentleman, get to know MAYA HAWKE. She’s the actual factor,” Ethan wrote in 2019 in an Instagram put up about his daughter’s “Stranger Issues” debut.

In the meantime, Thurman sang her daughter’s praises in an Entry Hollywood interview in February 2021. “She’s, in the long run, such an excellent actress. Clearly, there’s nothing else that she would have ever executed,” she stated. “Her expertise was so huge. It is what she needed to do.”

Maya talked about her mom on her June 28, 2022 episode of “The Tonight Present With Jimmy Fallon,” the place she instructed the host that Thurman’s abortion made it doable for her to exist. “My mother wrote this actually stunning essay about her abortion that she acquired when she was actually younger and about how if she hadn’t had it, she would not have turn into the individual that she had turn into, and I would not exist,” Maya stated. “Each of my dad and mom’ lives would have been derailed if she hadn’t have had entry to secure and authorized healthcare — basic healthcare.” Thurman printed an essay concerning the abortion she had as a young person within the Washington Submit in September 2021.

Throughout an Aug. 11 look on “Reside With Kelly and Ryan,” Maya spoke about how a lot she loves performing alongside her dad and mom, as she’s set to star in future initiatives with each of them, corresponding to “The Kill Room.” “My dad introduced me in to play his daughter, Annie Brown, on this TV present he did referred to as ‘The Good Lord Fowl’ . . . this previous yr, my mother had me are available and play a two-scene half on this film that she’s doing the place we acquired to yell at one another,” Maya stated. “It was actually, actually enjoyable. I like working with each of them. They’re actually superior, they usually’re simply wonderful at their job.”

Whereas Maya could also be tremendous near her dad and mom at the moment, that does not imply they have not had their ups and downs like another household. Throughout a June 20 look on “Watch What Occurs Reside,” Maya admitted to host Andy Cohen that she as soon as lied to Ethan about one thing main. “I lied about the place [I was going],” Maya stated. Contemplating the place she was actually going, it is comprehensible why she lied. “I stated that I used to be going to remedy, and I actually went to lose my virginity,” she stated.

When Ethan pressed her to inform him the place she was, Maya had a retort that is actually one for the books. “I stated, ‘How am I presupposed to have secrets and techniques if I am not allowed to inform lies?'” Maya recounted. One thing tells us that line will not work on most dad and mom.

Forward, take a look at images of the star and her superstar dad and mom.