Maya Eshet

Maya Eshet was born in 1990 in Jerusalem

Eshet was born in Jerusalem in 1990 and grew up in moshav Mesilat Zion. Her mother Ilva came to Israel from Sweden, and her father is Arik Eshet. Both parents are voice actors and acting coaches, and her sister Mili Eshet is also an actress.

She attended the arts high school in Jerusalem. At 18 she moved to the United States to study for 3 years at the Stella Adler acting school in New York. She later moved to Los Angeles.

As a child she worked in Hebrew dubbing of animated shows such as Rolie Polie Olie. In 2002 she had her first lead role in the short film Shiur Moledet: Avdei Hashem. She also had small parts in the film Someone to Run With and the drama series Mishmoret.

From 2014 to 2016 she played Meredith Walker in 10 episodes of the MTV series Teen Wolf. In 2017 she appeared in the films To the Bone and Flower, and in 2018 she played Lommie Thorne in the series Nightflyers. In 2023 she joined the eighth and final season of Fear the Walking Dead.

She is married to the American actor Konstantin Melikhov, whom she met while studying acting in New York.