How tall is Maya Hawke?

How tall is Maya Hawke?

Maya Hawke is listed on this site at 174 cm, which is about 5′8½″. The figure comes from her Wikidata record, and it sits in the middle of the range that entertainment outlets usually give for her, from 5′8″ (173 cm) to 5′9″ (175 cm). As with most actors, there is no official measured height for Hawke: there is no league roster, combine or athletic registry for film and television performers, so a figure like hers comes from agency material, interviews and reference databases rather than a clinical measurement.

What makes Hawke's height unusually easy to sanity-check is her family. Both of her parents, the actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, have well-established heights, and Maya's 174 cm sits almost exactly where standard pediatric formulas would predict for their daughter. That is explained in detail below, and it is one of the more satisfying height checks we can run for any celebrity.

A family of tall actors: Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke

Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke was born in New York City in 1998 to Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, who met on the set of the 1997 film Gattaca, married in May 1998 and divorced in 2005, according to her Wikipedia biography. She has a younger brother, Levon, and three half-sisters.

The heights of her parents in this site's data are:

Two things stand out. First, her mother is taller than her father, by about a centimeter, which is unusual: in most couples the man is taller, and in the United States men average about 13 to 14 cm more than women. Second, Thurman is tall by any standard for a woman. At 181 cm she is about 17 cm above the average American woman of her generation.

Modeling also runs in the family. Like both her mother and her grandmother, the model Nena von Schlebrügge, Maya modeled for Vogue early in her career, and she was the face of AllSaints' 2016–17 collection and appeared in Calvin Klein campaigns. Her great-grandmother, Birgit Holmquist, was also a model. Fashion modeling has traditionally favored taller women, and three generations of models on her mother's side are consistent with a family that tends toward height.

The mid-parental height check

Pediatricians often estimate a child's expected adult height from the parents' heights using the mid-parental height formula. The version published by the American Academy of Pediatrics for girls is:

Mid-parental height (girl) = (father's height − 13 cm + mother's height) ÷ 2

The 13 cm adjustment reflects the average height difference between adult men and women. The AAP gives a target range of about ±10.2 cm around the result, which covers most children of the same parents.

Applying it to Maya Hawke with her parents' heights from this site's data:

The prediction is 174 cm, the exact figure listed for Maya Hawke. That is partly a happy coincidence, because the formula predicts an average outcome for a family, and siblings routinely differ by several centimeters. But it is a good sign that her listed height is plausible, since it sits right at the center of the expected range.

For comparison, the boys' version of the same formula adds 13 cm to the mother's height instead, which for the same parents gives (181 + 13 + 180) ÷ 2 = 187 cm, a little over 6′1″. That is the average expectation for a son of Thurman and Hawke, such as Maya's brother Levon, though we have not found a reliable published height for him and do not state one. If you want to try the same calculation for another family, or for your own children, our height calculator uses this approach along with more detailed methods.

Robin Buckley and the Stranger Things cast

Hawke's breakout came in July 2019, when she joined the third season of Netflix's Stranger Things as Robin Buckley, a sharp-tongued coworker of Steve Harrington at the Scoops Ahoy ice-cream parlor who becomes a core member of the group. She remained on the show through its final season in 2025.

Within the ensemble she is one of the taller women. Only two of her principal castmates have height records in this site's data, but both comparisons are informative:

Millie Bobby Brown was 15 when Hawke joined the show and still growing, so the gap between them was larger in season 3 than in the final season. As adults, Hawke stands about 11 cm taller than Brown. Winona Ryder, who plays Joyce Byers, is about 13 cm shorter than Hawke.

Hawke has also worked in an extended Stranger Things universe, starring in the scripted podcast Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins in 2021.

Height next to her film co-stars

Hawke's film career has put her alongside some of Hollywood's best-known actors. The table compares her with co-stars who have height records on this site.

In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Hawke played Linda Kasabian, one of the young women connected to the Manson family. At 174 cm she is about 6 cm shorter than Brad Pitt and about 11 cm shorter than Leonardo DiCaprio in the site's data. In Asteroid City, Wes Anderson's 2023 film, she worked alongside an ensemble that included Scarlett Johansson, who is 14 cm shorter, and Tom Hanks, who is 9 cm taller.

She also starred in Do Revenge (2022) for Netflix, played a supporting role in Bradley Cooper's Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro (2023), and played the writer Flannery O'Connor in Wildcat (2023), directed by her father. In 2024 she voiced Anxiety in Pixar's Inside Out 2, a role in which her height is irrelevant but her voice carried the character. She has been cast as a younger version of the character Wiress in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

Maya Hawke among actresses of her generation

Hawke belongs to a generation of actresses born in the mid-1990s to early 2000s, several of whom also grew up as the children of famous performers. Her height sits toward the taller end of that group. The figures below are this site's.

Hawke and Elle Fanning, born the same year, share the same 174 cm figure. Margaret Qualley, the daughter of actress Andie MacDowell, and Lily-Rose Depp, the daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, are the other second-generation performers on the list, and they illustrate how widely children of actors vary: Qualley is taller than Hawke, while Depp is about 9 cm shorter. Parental height sets a likely range, not a fixed outcome.

What 174 cm means day to day

For a woman, 174 cm brings some practical everyday effects that differ from those for a man of the same height:

• Heels. With a 7 to 10 cm heel, Hawke stands at about 181 to 184 cm, taller than the average American man and similar to her mother barefoot.
• Photographs. In red-carpet group shots she frequently matches or exceeds the height of male co-stars in the 5′9″ to 5′11″ range once heels are involved, which is why apparent heights in event photos are a poor guide to real ones.

How height shapes casting for women

Hawke's height is a practical asset in some roles and a consideration in others. A 5′8½″ actress is tall by everyday standards and often matches or exceeds the height of male co-stars in the 5′8″ to 5′10″ range. In romantic pairings, directors and cinematographers sometimes adjust camera angles, footwear or staging to manage height differences, a routine part of filmmaking rather than anything unusual. For a character like Robin Buckley, an awkward, quick-witted teenager, Hawke's height contributed to a gangly, distinctive screen presence that set her apart from the younger cast.

We have not found reputable reporting in which Hawke herself discusses her height at length, and we do not repeat unsourced claims about casting decisions based on it.

Compared with the average American woman

Hawke was born in 1998. The NCD Risk Factor Collaboration estimates that American women born in 1996 average about 163.5 cm (5′4½″), and the US government's most recent national survey data, published by the National Center for Health Statistics for 2021 to 2023, gives a similar picture of adult women's heights.

At 174 cm, Hawke is roughly 10 to 11 cm (about 4 inches) taller than the average American woman of her generation, which places her between the 90th percentile (171.9 cm) and the 95th percentile (174.6 cm) for US women aged 20 to 29 in the NHANES 2021–2023 measurements. She is only about 3 cm shorter than the average American man. You can explore the American height distribution on our United States average height page.

Music, marriage and life outside acting

Hawke is also a singer-songwriter. She released her debut album, Blush, in 2020, followed by Moss (2022), Chaos Angel (2024) and Maitreya Corso (2026), and has toured extensively. In February 2026 she married the musician Christian Lee Hutson in New York City, a wedding attended by many of her Stranger Things castmates. None of these details bear on her height, but together with her acting work they round out the picture of an artist whose career has expanded well beyond the role that made her famous.

Seeing Maya Hawke's height side by side

To see Maya Hawke next to her parents, her Stranger Things castmates or yourself, use the main height comparison tool, which displays figures at true scale. The height difference calculator gives the exact gap between any two heights in centimeters and inches. A particularly neat comparison is Maya next to Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke together, which shows how closely her height tracks the family average predicted by the pediatric formula above. For more actors and musicians, browse the celebrity heights hub.