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Alaqua Cox: 5 Things to Know About the Deaf Actress Playing Maya Lopez in Marvel’s ‘Echo’

After making her acting debut as Maya Lopez in ‘Hawkeye,’ Alaqua Cox got her own ‘Echo’ spin-off series on Disney+.

The deaf Native American actress stars as Maya Lopez in the new Marvel miniseries Echo, which premiered all five episodes on Tuesday, January 9 on Disney+. “In designing the fights, we incorporated the fact that she can do bigger blocks with her prosthetic leg since she wouldn’t feel pain there,” the show’s stunt coordinator, Mark Scizak, said in an interview. Alaqua’s first acting job was playing Maya Lopez in the 2021 Marvel series Hawkeye, starring Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld.

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