Actress born April 18, 1989 in Riverside, California, best known as Child Prodigy/Young Entrepreneur/Teenage Con Artist Maeby Fünke on Arrested Development. Before that, she starred in the Fox/ABC Family series State of Grace. She also starred in Whip It and starred as Dory Sief in the TBS series Search Party.
On her father's side, she is of Iraqi descent, while her mother has European ancestry. Additionally, she is openly bisexual.
Alia Shawkat on TV Tropes:
- State of Grace (TV series)(2001-2002)
- Arrested Development (TV series)(2003-2006, 2013, 2018)
- Rebound (2005)
- Not Like Everyone Else (2006)
- Prom Wars (2008)
- Amreeka (2009)
- Whip It (2009)
- Cedar Rapids (2011)
- Ruby Sparks (2012)
- Night Moves (2013)
- Life After Beth (2014)
- The Final Girls (2015)
- Green Room (2015)
- The Intervention (2016)
- Search Party (TV series)(2016-2022)
- Transparent (2017)
- Broad City (2018)
- Duck Butter (2018)
- First Cow (2019)
- Summer Camp Island (2015-2021)
- The Letter Room (2020)
- Being the Ricardos (2021)
- The Old Man (2022-)
- Severance (2022-)
- Scavengers' Reign (2023)
Tropes in her work include:
- Actor-Shared Background: She is of Iraqi descent, and some of her characters share the same ethnicity, such as Dory Sief.
- Anti-Hero: She has often played morally grey characters such as Maeby Fünke and Dory Sief.
- Ms. Fanservice: She has had multiple nude or sex scenes in various works.
- Queer Character, Queer Actor: She's bisexual and has played several queer female characters.
- Adele on Broad City, who hooks up with Ilana.
- Lila on Transparent, who ends up in a polyamorous relationship with Sarah.
- Blanche on Summer Camp Island, who's female and dating Ava.
- Nima/Naima in Duck Butter, whose relationship with another woman she meets, Sergio, is the core of the plot (both are bisexual).
- Dory on Search Party, whose primary love interest, Drew, is male, but later enters a relationship with her friend Porcia.
