Maya Hakvoort (born on September 19, 1966 in Nijmegen) is a Dutch musical actress. Maya Hakvoort studied singing at the conservatory of Maastricht and acting and dancing at the kleinkunst-academy "De Trap" in Amsterdam, before she started gathering practical musical experience in Holland, Germany, Austria and Belgium. She debuted in the musical "Jeans" in 1989. After numerous minor and greater roles she got her up to now most famous role in "Theater an der Wien" as Empress Elisabeth in the German-language musical Elisabeth in Vienna in 1994