Maya officially got into acting when she played Miss Hannigan in her sixth-grade play Annie Jr, however she took first interest in acting when she was six years old. Soon after that her parents signed her up with talent agent Amy Hines of Hines Management, Toronto.
She booked her first professional role as Zoe on "Disney Jetix Smash Bumpers", appeared in a Rogers "Stretch" commercial and booked the role of Young Isabel in "Upanishads" in 2005. She began 2006 by booking the role of Zelly in "Finn'