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Alia Shawkat

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Alia Martine Shawkat is an American actor, singer, painter, and co-producer born on April 18, 1989, in Riverside, California. Her work spans both film and television, and she has also pursued painting as a distinct creative practice, making her engagement with the arts broader than performance alone.

Shawkat was educated at Marywood-Palm Valley School and began her career as a child actor, entering the profession at a young age before continuing into film and television work as an adult. Her occupations across acting, singing, visual art, and producing reflect a range of activity that has taken different forms over the course of her career.

Quotes by Alia Shawkat

I don't want to put down my work - I'm very proud of the work I've done.
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I don't want to put down my work - I'm very proud of the work I've done.
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When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this place called Littlefield in Brooklyn. It was really fun. I did, like, 10 standards, and then I just hopped around different bars like Mona's and different jazz clubs in New York just singing because I know all the standards so well.
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When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this place called Littlefield in Brooklyn. It was really fun. I did, like, 10 standards, and then I just hopped around different bars like Mona's and different jazz clubs in New York just singing because I know all the standards so well.
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If we give something value, it becomes valuable.
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If we give something value, it becomes valuable.
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I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.
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I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.
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After 'Arrested Development,' I didn't know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was hitting this wall, where I was the 'ethnic best friend' or the 'sassy teenager.' It felt like the same note, and I didn't feel like I was growing.
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After 'Arrested Development,' I didn't know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was hitting this wall, where I was the 'ethnic best friend' or the 'sassy teenager.' It felt like the same note, and I didn't feel like I was growing.
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I was a late bloomer.
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I was a late bloomer.
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I usually play grounded, has-their-head-on-straight kind of sassy girls.
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I usually play grounded, has-their-head-on-straight kind of sassy girls.
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It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!
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It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!
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I would do a movie musical.
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I would do a movie musical.
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There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm going to write stories for myself or work with filmmakers who want to tell stories about real people.
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There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm going to write stories for myself or work with filmmakers who want to tell stories about real people.
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