Alia Shawkat is an actress best known for her role as Maeby Funke in a Fox Television series ‘Arrested Development’. She is likewise known for playing Gertie Michaels in the horror-comedy movie “The Last Girls.”
In the Fox/Netflix television series Arrested Development (2003–2006; 2013–present), she played Maeby Fünke. In the 2015 horror comedy The Final Girls, she played Gertie Michaels. On Comedy Central’s Drunk History, she has also made appearances as Virginia Hall, Frances Cleveland, and Alexander Hamilton.
She now portrays Dory Stewart in the TBS black comedy series Search Party, which debuted on November 21, 2016. She also received the Young Artist Award in 2005 and the TV Land Award in 2004.
Alia Shawkat Parents: Meet Tony Shawkat & Dina Burke
Dina and Tony Shawkat gave birth to Alia in Riverside, California, and raised her in the neighboring town of Palm Springs. She comes from a mixed-ethnic family that includes members who are of Iraqi, Norwegian, Irish, and Sicilian/Italian descent because her mother is Irish-Norwegian and her father is Kurdish. He is an Aries by birth sign.
Regarding her other family members, she has two brothers and her maternal grandfather is the actor Paul Burke.