With memories going back to hiding under a table during World War Two air raids, actor, poet and food entrepreneur Maya Waterman recalls vivid moments in her life. Her path from a blitzed London was eventually to take her to the English town of Tunbridge Wells (at the casual suggestion of a friend) where she started a very successful baking business. Baking and feeding people remained a theme throughout her career, and when she moved to Los Angeles, she started several successful businesses, including food deliveries to the Hollywood creative industry.

It was here that Maya began to have her childhood dreams of an acting career encouraged when she was invited to take classes, in exchange for managing the affairs of a theatre company. She was then spotted - at a relatively late age - by two Producers looking for a lead character actor for a TV series, with her film and TV career only taking off in her 60s. At the same time Maya was becoming an in-demand face in commercials and music videos, including for Thirty Seconds to Mars and Sam Fender songs. She also took the lead in Joyride, an Amazon commercial which she says is now recognised as ‘a classic’.

As a poet Maya had an intense and highly creative period of writing, and in Creageivity 38 she reads three of her pieces for us.
Acting opportunities continue, and Maya has also been very active in social justice and support projects - a truly rounded artist with fascinating stories to tell!

Maya’s website: https://mayawaterman.wixsite.com/maya-waterman-1

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Music used via Pixabay with thanks:La Nuit from Playhouse Sound
Portrait photo of Maya by Travis Tanner

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