She is known for her performances as Maeby Fünke in the Fox / Netflix television sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006; 2013–2019), Dory Sief in the TBS and HBO Max dark comedy series Search Party (2016–2022), and Gertie Michaels in the 2015 horror-comedy film The Final Girls, as well as her roles in State of Grace and The Old Man.

Alia Shawkat. Actress: Arrested Development. Alia Shawkat was born in Riverside, California, to Dina Burke and actor Tony Shawkat. Her maternal grandfather, Paul Burke, was also an actor. Her father is from Baghdad, Iraq, and her mother has Irish, Italian, and Norwegian ancestry. Success arrived early for Alia.

5 days ago · Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz, an ambitious actress determined to make her big break in Hollywood while working in the simulation, despite her conflicting feelings about the war in Iraq.

2 days ago · While Gladstone and Shawkat appear in films that were selected for this year’s Sundance Film Festival — Gladstone is in Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet,” a retelling of Ang Lee’s 1993 comedy romance of the same name, and Shawkat appears in Hailey Gates’ “Atropia,” a selection in the U.S. Dramatic Competition — Hernandez ...

5 days ago · ‘Atropia’ Review: Alia Shawkat Stars in a Luca Guadagnino-Produced Military Satire That’s Stretched Too Thin. An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a ...

She is known for her roles as Hannah Rayburn in State of Grace, Maeby Fünke in the Fox / Netflix Television progratelevision sitcom Arrested Development (2003-2006, 2013-2019), Gertie Michaels in the 2015 horror-comedy movie The Final Girls, and Dory Sief in the TBS and HBO Max comedy series Search Party (2016–2022).

Alia Shawkat. Actress: Arrested Development. Alia Shawkat was born in Riverside, California, to Dina Burke and actor Tony Shawkat. Her maternal grandfather, Paul Burke, was also an actor. Her father is from Baghdad, Iraq, and her mother has Irish, Italian, and Norwegian ancestry. Success arrived early for Alia.

4 days ago · On January 26, bundled-up attendees braved the winter temperatures to stand in line at Filmmaker Lodge in hopes of seeing actors Lily Gladstone (The Wedding Banquet) and Alia Shawkat at Cinema Café.Shawkat returns to the Festival, having acted in more than a dozen films that have screened here over the years, including Drift (2023) and Animals (2019).

Jan 9, 2022 · At the center of the show’s mess is Alia Shawkat, the actress who plays its protagonist and seductive villain, Dory Sief. We’ve watched Dory evolve from an aimless Brooklyn millennial to...

Alia Shawkat (born April 18, 1989, Riverside, California, U.S.) is an American actress best known for portraying Maeby Fünke on the cult-classic television sitcom Arrested Development (2003–06, 2013, and 2018–19) and Dory Sief on the dark comedy series Search Party (2016–22).