Dendritic spines are signaling microcompartments that serve as the primary site of synapse formation in neurons. Actin assembly and myosin 2 contractility play major roles in the maturation of spines from filopodial precursors, as well as in the subsequent, activity-dependent changes in spine morphology that underly learning and memory. Myosin 18A is a myosin 2-like protein conserved from flies to man that lacks motor activity, is sub-stochiometric to myosin 2, and co-assembles with myosin 2 to make mixed filaments. Myosin 18A is alternatively spliced to create multiple isoforms that contain unique N- and C-terminal extensions harboring both recognizable and uncharacterized protein: protein interaction domains. These observations suggest that myosin 18A serves to recruit proteins to mixed filaments of myosin 2 and myosin 18A. One protein known to bind to myosin 18A is β-Pix, a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for Rac1 and Cdc42. Notably, β-Pix has been shown to promote spine maturation by activating both Arp2/3 complex-dependent branched actin filament assembly and myosin 2 contractility within spines. Here we show that myosin 18Aα is expressed in cerebellar Purkinje neurons and concentrates in spines along with myosin 2 and F-actin. Myosin 18Aα is targeted to spines by co-assembling with myosin 2 and by an actin binding site present in its N-terminal extension. miRNA-mediated knockdown of myosin 18Aα results in a significant defect in spine maturation that is rescued by an RNAi-immune version of myosin 18Aα. Importantly, β-Pix co-localizes with myosin 18Aα in spines, and its spine localization is lost upon myosin 18A&α knockdown or when its myosin 18Aα binding site is deleted. Finally, we show that the spines of myosin 18Aα knockdown Purkinje neurons contain significantly less F-actin and myosin 2. Together, these data demonstrate that mixed filaments of myosin 2 and myosin 18Aα form a complex with β-Pix in Purkinje neuron spines that promotes spine maturation by enhancing the assembly of actin and myosin filaments downstream of β-Pixs GEF activity.