Alongside her studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Civilizations at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Maïa trained as an actress with Patricia Vilon and then at the Cours Florent drama school, where she performed 3 roles in english in "The Dining Room" directed by Alan Rossett. 
She has years of vocal training (jazz, chanson, opera) with several teachers and plays classical piano (very good level).
She began her career on stage at the Théâtre de la Madeleine in Dostoevsky's "L'Idiot", then played Antigone in Jean Anouilh's eponymous play, touring with les Tréteaux de France company. 
She has frequently played leading ladies in plays by Hugo, Shakespeare ("Romeo and Juliet"), John Ford ("Tis Pity She's a Whore"), and Molière ("Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme", "Le Médecin Malgré Lui", "Psyché"), as well as saucy characters in Marivaux's plays. 
On television, she appeared alongside Francis Perrin (in the series "Mongeville") and Pierre Arditi ("Quelque chose a changé") under the direction of Jacques Santamaria. 
She created in Paris the role of Hannah Arendt in "Un rapport sur la banalité de l’amour" for which she received numerous and excellent reviews from the press. 
She participated in "Les Cavaliers", based on the novel by Joseph Kessel, directed by Eric Bouvron and Anne Bourgeois, a production that toured internationally and won the 2016 Molière Award for Best Private Theatre Production. 
In 2024, she participated in the show "Luminiscence" at the  Church of Saint-Eustache directed by Léonard Matton. 
In 2025, she played the lead role in the television docudrama about "Rose Valland, l'héroïne de l'ombre" for France 2, for which she also provided the voice-over narration. 
She regularly lends her voice to documentaries, notably for Arte, as well as to children's books, podcasts, audio guides, and radio dramas. 
In late 2025, she will perform excerpts from a play by David Friszman in English.