Maria Lewis - Updated Oct 2024

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Maria Lewis

Maria Lewis is an author, screenwriter as well as a journalist. Maria Lewis had come to fame after winning two times of Aurealis Awards twice.

Early Life and Childhood

Maria Lewis was born on 24th October 1988 in New Zealand. As of now, her age is 34 years old, and belongs to Australian nationality. She was raised in the beautiful landscape of South Island, New Zealand. And then was moved to the Gold Coast, Queensland.

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Caption: Maria Lewis at Halloween making temporary tattoos on her cheeks (Source: Instagram)

Professional Life

Focusing on Maria Lewis’s career, she started her journalism career at the age of sixteen as a cadet at the Gold Coast Bulletin. There she had covered the crime and police beat for several years.

Pop Culture

Similarly, her pop culture has appeared in publications such as Empire Magazine, Penthouse, Junkee, New York Post, The Guardian, SFX Magazine, The Daily Mail, Film Ink, i09, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Herald Sun, BuzzFeed, ABC, Screen Australia, WHO Weekly and Bloody Disgusting.

 Author

In the year 2016, she published her debut novel – “Who’s Afraid?” worldwide. And the next year (2017), its sequel “Who’s Afraid Too?” was released. This book is about the protagonist Tommi Grayson from Dundee, Scotland, a female werewolf, and is supposed to be a twist on the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as well as “examining the feminine grotesque and the idea of female monsters”.

Similarly, it is being adapted for television by Hoodlum Entertainment, the team behind Secrets & Lies, Tidelands, and Harrow. In the year 2017, she even made her Young Adult debut with It Came From The Deep self-published which follows a teenager who discovers a merman living in a lake on the Gold Coast, Australia.

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Caption: Maria with her fan in the publication of her fourth book (Source: Instagram)

Likewise, her fourth book, The Witch Who Courted Death, was published on Halloween, 2018. This book speaks the origin story of Corvossier ‘Casper’ von Klitzing and her brother Barastin, who were both first introduced in Who’s Afraid Too? And her fifth book The Wailing Woman – is a follow-up novel about a family of banshee sisters.

Moreover, this book speaks a series of interconnected stories, which each focus on different types of female monsters.

Movies

Besides this, she is an actress. Furthermore, she has starred in small roles in the movie Little Monster(2019) and the TV series The Feed (2016-17).

Awards and Nominations

Maria Lewis’s book named “Who’s Afraid Too?” won the Aurealis Awards in 2018 for Best Horror Novel. Similarly, her book The Witch Who Courted Death won the Aurealis Awards for Best Fantasy Novel in May 2019.

Maria Lewis – Net Worth 2023

As an actress, she has earned much which could fill up her needs. Currently, she has earned a net worth of around $50,000 US approximately. Moreover, there is no information regarding her income and salary.

Relationship Status

Maria Lewis hasn’t married nor has children. She is currently living single. She is just focusing on her career and giving more time to herself.

Focusing on her past relationship, she hasn’t dated anyone. She usually doesn’t speak about her personal life in the media or in public as well as hasn’t mentioned her affairs publically. Moreover, she even has managed to keep it low profile.

Maria Lewis – Body Measurements

Maria Lewis has a height of 5 feet 2 inches tall. Similarly, she has a beautiful rainbow-dyed hair color with a pair of brown eyes.

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Caption: Maria posing for a photo doing a towel challenge (Source: Instagram)

Maria Lewis – Social Media

The 31-year-old prominent actress is currently active on social media including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Similarly, she has gained more than 6k followers on Twitter (@moviemazz), more than 2.2k followers on Facebook (@marialewiswriter), and more than 3.6k followers on Instagram (@maria___lewis).