At nine months old, her family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, and then to Chennai in south India, where they practised meditation in an ashram.
In August to September of that year she took the role of Tiny in the theatre play, Sweet Bird andsoforth at ATYP Studio.
[13] In 2019 Hakewill also had a recurring role as prison inmate Kylee Webb on the seventh season of Wentworth.
[1] In March 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic shut down shooting for five months, and the cast were able to secure the government JobKeeper payments during the hiatus.
In Wanted season 2 episode 2 Hakewill, in character, sang her rendition of "Angel" originally by Sarah McLachlan.
[2][20] An EP track, "Healing" was used in the final episodes of Wanted season 3 in October of that year.
[2][22] Hakewill met fellow actor Mark Leonard Winter in 2011, they were engaged in 2017,[1] and married in December 2021.
Hakewill has revealed her anxiety, which she ameliorates by meditation, "[it] has always been a big part of my self-care mental health practices.