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Ethan HawkeHis teenage daughter keeps him humble.
Ethan revealed during an appearance on Monday, January 5 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert his eldest son, stranger things Star Maya HawkeThe 27-year-old is more recognized among the peers of his youngest children, Clementine, 17, and Indiana, 14.
The Oscar nominee admitted that Maya’s role in one of the world’s biggest series “stealed” his own career in some ways. This was even more evident when his youngest child visited the set of his latest comedy-drama, the truth.
“We shot it down in Tulsa and my wife (Ryan Shaw Hughes) is a producer on the show and we let the whole family down,” he explained. “The kids go to public schools in Tulsa. The kids came to visit me on set and the director said, “Is it hard to have a famous dad when you’re at a new school?”
Ethan continued, “Their reaction was, ‘It’s hard to have a famous sister. No one cares about my dad… There are pictures of my sister in lockers everywhere.'”
Like millions of others around the world, blue moon The 55-year-old actor stayed up until the early hours on Thursday, January 1, to catch up with his daughter and her co-star. series finale stranger things.
“A lot of Americans are watching stranger thingsbut not everyone is watching their daughter (in stranger things) with their siblings on one side. We’re invested,” Ethan said.
The proud dad went on to gush about Maya’s role as Robin Buckley, adding, “I have to say, hats off. I think Maya did a great job. I think the whole show did a great job.”

Ethan shares Maya and son Levine23 years old, with his ex-wife, kill bill actor Uma Thurman. Both Maya and Levine followed in their parents’ footsteps and entered Hollywood. (Ethan shares Clementine and Indiana with Shaw Hughes, whom he married in 2008.)
Ethan recently made it public Regret over certain aspects of Maya’s childhood.
“There were a lot of things about her childhood that were very, very difficult and complicated, and I feel sorry for her,” Ethan told me Sidney Sweeney his eldest daughter said in a December 2025 conversation type and CNN’s “Actors on Actors.”
While the actor didn’t go into detail about Maya’s struggles, he said he knew she was “going to be an artist” when she was “about four years old.”
“I know she’s going to be a really good person,” he said. “That was her safe place — she spent her whole childhood painting watercolors, dancing, singing.”
“Anything that had to do with human communication set off a vibration in her,” he recalled. “I remember one teacher said, ‘Maya, are you happy?’ (because) they were worried about her. She said something to the effect of, ‘Do you really think this is the problem?'”
Ethan continued, “I thought, ‘I love this kid.'” She was about 13 years old. (Maya said) “I don’t think that’s a very interesting question. “I think there are a lot more interesting questions than whether I’m happy or not. Am I happy? No. But I don’t crave happiness. “