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Alia was nominated for two S.A.G. Awards, in 2005 and 2006, for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Arrested Development.
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Alia is an accomplished pianist, and often plays in her spare time.
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Alia is left handed.
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She loves to hear Oldies, some Rap, Rock and Pop.
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Her favorite food to eat is her grandmother's dessert called 'Leche', a frozen yogurt.
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Actors she would like to work with include: Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and her grandfather, Paul Burke.
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Her role models are: her mother, her grandmother, Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster and many others.
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Alia's parents are Dina and Tony Shawkat.
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She won Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) Supporting Young Actress for Arrested Development (2005).
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She was nominated Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series; Leading Young Actress for State of Grace (2002).
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Alia was in the movie Rebound (2005).
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She appeared in a Lifetime movie original Not Like Everyone Else, based on the true story of, Brandi Blackbear.
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Alia was in the TV movie Trail of The Old Drum.
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Alia has 2 pet cats named Max and Simba.
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Alia's nickname is, Allie.
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Alia is in the movie; Deck the Halls (2006) with Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick.
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Alia's character, Hannah, on State of Grace was Jewish and went to an all girls' Catholic school run by Nuns.
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As of 2006 she splits her time between her home and Rancho Mirage and Los Angeles where she resides with her parents and her two brothers.
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In her free time, Alia enjoys horseback riding, ice-skating, and dancing.
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Her great-great-grandfather, Martin P. Burke, was a New Orleans policeman in 1898.
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Alia was introduced to show business by appearing in a Calvin Klein catalog, which immediately attracted the attention of commercial and theatrical agents in Hollywood.
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Alia's former State of Grace co-star, Mae Whitman, had a recurring role her third TV show, Arrested Development.
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Alia appeared on Veronica Mars in season 2 with Arrested Development co-star Michael Cera.
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When she is not filming, she attends a private school near her home in Rancho Mirage, where she studies; English, Physics, Math, Geography and Drama.
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She is the great-granddaughter of Martin Joseph "Marty" Burke, a boxer who fought Gene Tunney and sparred with Jack Dempsey. Later he and his wife owned a string of nightclubs in the New Orleans French Quarter.
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One of her ambitions is to attend Yale University, studying International Relations.
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She is 5' 5 1/2" (1.66 m).
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She is the granddaughter of Paul Burke, who appeared as Detective Adam Flint on the TV series Naked City (1959) and fomer dancer Peggy Pryor.
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Her role models include Jodie Foster and Meryl Streep.
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Alia's father is Iraqi and her mother is of Irish and Norwegian origin.
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Alia Shawkat was the first cast member of Arrested Development to sign on to the show.
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She was the little girl in the movie, Three Kings, in which her father had a cameo.