[5] For her performance in Almost Paris, Hawk won the Best Actress award at the 2017 Golden Door Film Festival.
At first she found a number of small parts in productions including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Across the Universe.
In 2016, she played the main character, Riley Thomas, in the holiday TV movie A Christmas in Vermont.
[9][10] That same year, she played Ellie in Domenica Cameron-Scorsese's directorial debut Almost Paris,[5] for which she won the "Best Actress" award at the 2017 Golden Door Film Festival.
[6] In October 2017, Hawk was a guest of honor at the Spring Gala of HeartShare Human Services of New York, and received the Linda Dano Award.