Alia Shawkat
Alia Shawkat
Alia Martine Shawkatis an American actress. She starred as Maeby Fünke in the Fox/Netflix television series Arrested Development, and as Gertie Michaels in the 2015 horror-comedy film The Final Girls...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth18 April 1989
CityRiverside, CA
CountryUnited States of America
nice home busy
It's nice when you get to leave and travel and be busy and then come home.
careers roles
I'm not at the place in my career necessarily where I'm like offered every role.
physically
I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.
kids popular
If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.
commenting drawn happening roles
I guess I've always been drawn to roles that have smart characters commenting on what's happening around them.
mom script
When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.
leads
On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.
dropped lived moved originally turned
Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.
amazing female good guy worked
Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.