Who is Alia Shawkat?

Alia Shawkat is an actress best known for her role as Maeby Funke in the Fox Television series ‘Arrested Development.

In this series, she belongs to a mischievous part of an Orange County family trying to adjust to their loss of wealth. She is also recognized for her role as Gertie Michaels in the horror-comedy film ‘The Final Girls’.

Who are the parents of Alia Shawkat?

Alia Shawkat was born to Dina and Tony Shawkat in Riverside, California, United States of America, and was brought up in nearby Palm Springs.

As her mother was Irish-Norwegian and her father was a Kurdish, she belongs to a family of mixed(Iraqi, Norwegian, Irish, and Sicilian/Italian) ethnicity.

Talking about her other family members, she has two brothers and Paul Burke (actor) is her maternal grandfather.

Because her father and grandfather both are actors, she initiated her career from a very early age of life (at 11) in the ABC Family series State of Grace’.

It is found that during her free time, she used to go to study at Rancho Mirage School where she studied Math, English, Physics, Geography, and Drama. Her target is to study International Relations at Yale University.