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Alia Shawkat
Alia Martine Shawkat (born April 18, 1989) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Maeby Fünke in the Fox television series Arrested Development.
Shawkat was born in Riverside, California to Dina (née Burke) and actor Tony Shawkat. She grew up in nearby Palm Springs. She has two brothers. The actor Paul Burke was her maternal grandfather. Shawkat's father is an Arab Iraqi, from Baghdad. Her mother is of half-Norwegian, one-quarter-Irish, and one-quarter-Italian descent.
When she is not working (acting), she likes to paint; she has participated in gallery shows in Los Angeles, Mexico City and Paris. She also likes to make music and sing in jazz bars.
As Maeby Fünke, Shawkat was a regular cast member of Arrested Development for the entire run of the show from 2003 to 2006. The series received nearly universally positive reviews, with Shawkat's performance occasionally singled out for praise. Pop-culture commentator Brian M. Palmer remarked that she was "one of the brightest lights on a show populated solely by bright lights," and Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic described her as "one funny young lady." In an interview with The A.V. Club in 2010, Shawkat remarked that many of her "formative moments" as an actress took place on the Arrested Development set: " Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. In a way, it was great to be around, because I feel that my understanding of comedy was able to grow really well during that time."
In 2009, Shawkat appeared in Whip It co-star Har Mar Superstar's music video for "Tall Boy", which also featured Eva Mendes and Eric Wareheim. In October 2009, it was announced that Shawkat, Har Mar, and fellow Whip It co-star Page would produce and write a show for HBO called Stitch N' Bitch. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the show "follows two painfully cool hipster girls as they relocate from Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood to Los Angeles' Silver Lake enclave in hopes of becoming artists--of any kind."
Shawkat, along with Arrested Development co-star Mae Whitman, sang guest vocals on a number of tracks from indie-punk band Fake Problems' 2010 album Real Ghosts Caught on Tape.
Six years after the series was canceled by Fox, filming for a revived fourth season of Arrested Development began on August 7, 2012 and Shawkat reprised her role as Maeby Fünke. The season consists of 15 new episodes which debuted at the same time on Netflix on May 26, 2013. Each episode focuses on one particular character, with Shawkat's Maeby, now a high school senior, featured in episode 12, "Señoritis" and appearing in several other episodes of the season.
Shawkat was born in Riverside, California to Dina (née Burke) and actor Tony Shawkat. She grew up in nearby Palm Springs. She has two brothers. The actor Paul Burke was her maternal grandfather. Shawkat's father is an Arab Iraqi, from Baghdad. Her mother is of half-Norwegian, one-quarter-Irish, and one-quarter-Italian descent.
When she is not working (acting), she likes to paint; she has participated in gallery shows in Los Angeles, Mexico City and Paris. She also likes to make music and sing in jazz bars.
As Maeby Fünke, Shawkat was a regular cast member of Arrested Development for the entire run of the show from 2003 to 2006. The series received nearly universally positive reviews, with Shawkat's performance occasionally singled out for praise. Pop-culture commentator Brian M. Palmer remarked that she was "one of the brightest lights on a show populated solely by bright lights," and Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic described her as "one funny young lady." In an interview with The A.V. Club in 2010, Shawkat remarked that many of her "formative moments" as an actress took place on the Arrested Development set: " Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. In a way, it was great to be around, because I feel that my understanding of comedy was able to grow really well during that time."
In 2009, Shawkat appeared in Whip It co-star Har Mar Superstar's music video for "Tall Boy", which also featured Eva Mendes and Eric Wareheim. In October 2009, it was announced that Shawkat, Har Mar, and fellow Whip It co-star Page would produce and write a show for HBO called Stitch N' Bitch. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the show "follows two painfully cool hipster girls as they relocate from Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood to Los Angeles' Silver Lake enclave in hopes of becoming artists--of any kind."
Shawkat, along with Arrested Development co-star Mae Whitman, sang guest vocals on a number of tracks from indie-punk band Fake Problems' 2010 album Real Ghosts Caught on Tape.
Six years after the series was canceled by Fox, filming for a revived fourth season of Arrested Development began on August 7, 2012 and Shawkat reprised her role as Maeby Fünke. The season consists of 15 new episodes which debuted at the same time on Netflix on May 26, 2013. Each episode focuses on one particular character, with Shawkat's Maeby, now a high school senior, featured in episode 12, "Señoritis" and appearing in several other episodes of the season.
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Alexis Knapp
Alexis Merizalde Knapp (born July 31, 1989) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her role as Stacie Conrad in the musical films Pitch Perfect (2012) and Pitch Perfect 2 (2015). She is also known for her role of Alexis in the party film Project X (2012).
Knapp was born in Avonmore, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Marjorie and the late Bradford Elwood Knapp. She has two brothers.
At age 18, Knapp moved to Los Angeles. There in 2008 she hosted popular internet video series 'Project Lore', a show about the videogame 'World of Warcraft', and also worked as a model before breaking into acting. She appeared in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Aphrodite Girl and in Couples Retreat. In 2012, she starred in Project X as Alexis and Pitch Perfect as Stacie Conrad, the highly sex-crazed Barden Bella. She reprised her role in the latter's 2015 sequel.
Knapp also appeared in an episode of ABC's short-lived series Super Fun Night, written by and starring her Pitch Perfect co-star Rebel Wilson. Knapp also starred in the Tom Vaughan directed film So Undercover, as Taylor Jaffe. Alexis also has roles in TBS' Ground Floor, portraying Tori, a party girl, who catches up on her sleep at work the next morning. She did not return for the series' second season. Knapp was also cast in the Lifetime pilot Cinnamon Girl, before it got passed on. Knapp also stars in short film drama Wracked, as Melissa.
Knapp dated actor Ryan Phillippe in the summer of 2010, though they split up in September that year. After the break-up, Knapp discovered that she was pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, Kailani Merizalde Knapp, in July 2011. Phillippe was present during the birth.
Knapp was born in Avonmore, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Marjorie and the late Bradford Elwood Knapp. She has two brothers.
At age 18, Knapp moved to Los Angeles. There in 2008 she hosted popular internet video series 'Project Lore', a show about the videogame 'World of Warcraft', and also worked as a model before breaking into acting. She appeared in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Aphrodite Girl and in Couples Retreat. In 2012, she starred in Project X as Alexis and Pitch Perfect as Stacie Conrad, the highly sex-crazed Barden Bella. She reprised her role in the latter's 2015 sequel.
Knapp also appeared in an episode of ABC's short-lived series Super Fun Night, written by and starring her Pitch Perfect co-star Rebel Wilson. Knapp also starred in the Tom Vaughan directed film So Undercover, as Taylor Jaffe. Alexis also has roles in TBS' Ground Floor, portraying Tori, a party girl, who catches up on her sleep at work the next morning. She did not return for the series' second season. Knapp was also cast in the Lifetime pilot Cinnamon Girl, before it got passed on. Knapp also stars in short film drama Wracked, as Melissa.
Knapp dated actor Ryan Phillippe in the summer of 2010, though they split up in September that year. After the break-up, Knapp discovered that she was pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, Kailani Merizalde Knapp, in July 2011. Phillippe was present during the birth.
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Alexis Dziena
Alexis Gabrielle Dziena (born July 8, 1984) is an American actress.
Alexis Dziena was born in New York City and is of Irish, Italian and Polish descent. She attended the private Saint Ann's School alongside her Bringing Rain (2003) costar, Paz de la Huerta. She spent many of her summers growing up in the small South Jersey shore town of Sea Isle City. Also, during high school, she attended classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and appeared in plays there as well.
Alexis Dziena made her acting debut in TNT's Witchblade. One of her first major roles was in the Lifetime channel original She's Too Young, in which she portrayed a sexually active teenager alongside Miriam McDonald of Degrassi: The Next Generation fame.
She also played the role of Heather, a sexually frustrated young woman in a loving relationship, who takes part in a couple swap as part of therapy in the film Sex and Breakfast. The film also starred Eliza Dushku and Macaulay Culkin.
In the ABC television series Invasion she played the sheriff's daughter Kira Underlay. Dziena also appeared frequently on the sixth season of the HBO series Entourage. She also co-starred in the 2008 films Fool's Gold and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
Alexis Dziena was born in New York City and is of Irish, Italian and Polish descent. She attended the private Saint Ann's School alongside her Bringing Rain (2003) costar, Paz de la Huerta. She spent many of her summers growing up in the small South Jersey shore town of Sea Isle City. Also, during high school, she attended classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and appeared in plays there as well.
Alexis Dziena made her acting debut in TNT's Witchblade. One of her first major roles was in the Lifetime channel original She's Too Young, in which she portrayed a sexually active teenager alongside Miriam McDonald of Degrassi: The Next Generation fame.
She also played the role of Heather, a sexually frustrated young woman in a loving relationship, who takes part in a couple swap as part of therapy in the film Sex and Breakfast. The film also starred Eliza Dushku and Macaulay Culkin.
In the ABC television series Invasion she played the sheriff's daughter Kira Underlay. Dziena also appeared frequently on the sixth season of the HBO series Entourage. She also co-starred in the 2008 films Fool's Gold and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
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