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Alaqua Cox found fame by starring in the role of Echo in the 2021 MCU seriesHawkeye.The world was delighted to see the return of Cox in the 2024 seriesEchowhere she served as the main protagonist of the series.
Being challenged all her life, the journey of Alaqua Cox is nothing short of inspiration. From growing up in Wisconsin on an Indian Reservation to landing a role in the MCU, Cox’s life journey will surely continue to go upwards.
Alaqua Cox Was Born Deaf In An Indian Reservation!
Being a Native American, Alaqua Cox was born to Elena and Bill Cox. The actress was born deaf and was born and raised in the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. The actress had three siblings raised alongside her during her early life.
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Being born deaf was obviously a tough ordeal but Alaqua Cox attended the Wisconsin School for the Deaf and made it into the girls’ Basketball and Volleyball teams! Cox also has a prosthetic leg although she hasn’t publicly revealed what led to her amputation. It was when her friends told her that Marvel was looking to hire a Native American actress who was deaf that Cox realized her destiny.
Prior to her casting as Maya Lopez inHawkeye,the actress was an Amazon warehouse worker with no dreams of acting. The actress was raised alongside her three siblings, Will, Jordan, and, Katie Cox in Wisconsin.
On Mother’s Day 2023, the actress announced that she was expecting a baby boy with her partner, and a boy was born to her in October 2023. Being a mother, the actress knows about the pain of her on-screen character Maya Lopez and she revealed that the two indeed shared some childhood traumas!
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Alaqua Cox And Echo Share Childhood Traumas!
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Being an amputee, Cox talked about how she had to go through several surgeries when she was a kid. Revealing that the pain made her as strong as a warrior, the actress revealed toYard Barkerthat she co-related her pain to the pain of her on-screen character Maya Lopez losing her mother.
“I was raised with some trauma. We both have childhood trauma, of course, that we’re raised with. And it was different, of course. For example, I grew up, as you know, I am an amputee. So, I went through many different kinds of surgeries as a child.”
She further continued,
“And so, that made me a warrior, in a sense. And her, Maya, she had the death of her mother, and all these tragic events that happened in her life. So, we both have different traumatic experiences.”
Her on-screen character is portrayed to be of the Native American Cheyenne tribe while Alaqua Cox herself is also a Native American. Being proud of her culture, the actress shared toA Tribe Called Geekthat it felt great to get this massive platform to represent her culture and educate the people!
“It feels amazing to get this role. Because I’m able to spread awareness in both underrepresented communities. And the audience will be able to learn more about our culture in the most authentic way”.
Alaqua Cox was seen in the iconic role of Maya Lopez in the 2021 seriesHawkeyeand will be seen on television screens again whenEchoreleases on 30 July 2025. Being an MCU series,Echowill be available to stream on Disney+ in the U.S.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
