Maya Erskine

Maya Erskine is a talent I keep marveling at. Born in Los Angeles, NYU-trained, she vaulted to attention with PEN15, a series she co-created, co-wrote and co-produced, playing a fictional thirteen-year-old version of herself as a grown adult. That premise is absurdly hard to pull off, and the four Emmy nominations confirm she did. What excites me is that she is an author as much as a performer, carrying her Japanese American roots while refusing any tidy category. People who can tell their own stories in their own hands are the ones who last, and I think her best work is still ahead.

Name (English)

Maya Erskine

Name (Japanese)

マヤ・アースキン

Reading

まや・あーすきん

Born

May 7, 1987 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rabbit

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / stage actor

High school

Los Angeles County High School for the Arts

University

New York University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mayaerskine/
• Xhttps://x.com/mayaerskine
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya%20Erskine
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19662801

Tags

• California
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-16

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.