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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]
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 ...
Yahoo Entertainment caught up with Echo's Alaqua Cox at D23, who talked to us about deaf and Indigenous representation in the MCU.
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 ...
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.
Her 2020 role on Grey's Anatomy is the first recurring deaf doctor role on a prime time television network show. [6] She also played the recurring character Eileen Leahy on the CW show Supernatural. She is also set to write the episode "Tuklo" of the Hawkeye spin-off series Echo, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe starring Alaqua Cox.
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).