Mia Maestro has built a diverse career in film, television, and social impact, blending storytelling, advocacy, and meaningful action. She spends her time between personal meditation practices, advocating for incarcerated communities, connecting with the planet’s last wild places, and filmmaking.

Mia has established herself as an accomplished actor, making her mark in both independent and mainstream films in Hollywood and Latin America. She has also developed a robust career as a documentary producer, co-producing the National Geographic and DGA-nominated Into the Okavango. She is currently collaborating with acclaimed director Jeff Orlowski-Yang on a new documentary.

Her cinematic journey began with a standout role in Carlos Saura’s Tango, which earned Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Film. Mia’s filmography includes The Motorcycle Diaries, Frida, Savages, Poseidon, Secuestro Express, The Holy Girl, After This Death, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 & 2. On television, she has starred in The Strain (created by Guillermo Del Toro), Alias, and most recently in Extrapolations, Apple+’s climate change anthology, opposite Edward Norton.

Since 2018, Mia has been an active member of Healing Dialogue and Action, where she leads mindfulness circles in Southern California’s level 4 prisons and juvenile halls. She also serves as an ambassador for the Surfrider Foundation and the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund.