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Cox was born Deaf. [4] She was born and raised in the Menominee Indian Reservation in Keshena, Wisconsin, and is of the Menominee and Mohican nation. [1] She attended the Wisconsin School for the Deaf, where she played on the girls' basketball team from 2014 to 2015 and on the volleyball team. [5] [6] Part of Cox's right leg is amputated. [7]
Alaqua Cox is crashing through two glass ceilings at once.. After making her debut as Echo (aka Maya Lopez) in last year’s Disney+ series Hawkeye, Cox became the first major Indigenous character ...
For Alaqua Cox, star of Marvel Studios series Echo, leading a highly anticipated show as an Indigenous and deaf actress has been “surreal.” “It’s a huge step for Hollywood to be able to ...
Before she was cast in Marvel’s 2021 Disney+ series “Hawkeye,” Alaqua Cox had never considered becoming an actor. But then several friends sent her the same flyer looking for Indigenous deaf ...
Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez / Echo: A deaf Native American Choctaw and the former leader of the Tracksuit Mafia, a criminal gang working for Wilson Fisk. [6] [7] Director and executive producer Sydney Freeland noted that Maya is in "a very vulnerable, emotional place" and has "all this bottled-up emotion and rage and feeling inside of her", which Fisk is able to exploit.
Cox was born deaf, grew up in Menominee County and attended the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in Delavan. She also has a prosthetic leg, but performs many of her own "Echo" stunts.
Alaqua Cox debuted in “Hawkeye” as Maya Lopez, a deaf gang leader in New York out for vengeance against Avengers archer Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner).
Maya Lopez appears in two television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, portrayed by Alaqua Cox as an adult and by Darnell Besaw (Cox's cousin) as a child. [75] This version, who sports a prosthetic leg since childhood, is the Choctaw leader of the Tracksuit Mafia , with Kazimierz "Kazi" Kazimierczak (portrayed by Fra Fee ) serving as ...