Profile
Famous as :
ActressBirth Name :
Alia Martine ShawkatBirth Date :
April 18, 1989Birth Place :
Riverside, California, USAClaim to fame :
As Young Hannah Rayburn in ABC Family's series "State of Grace" (2001)
Ellen Page Writing for New HBO Comedy
October 08, 2009 11:10:55Done with her starring role in Drew Barrymore's "Whip It!", Ellen Page is venturing out to the TV world by becoming a writer-producer. The actress who claimed her fame by being Juno MacGuff in the Oscar-winning "Juno", will pen for an HBO comedy called "Stitch N' Bitch".
In getting her new stint done, Page has teamed up with two other young actors, Alia Shawkat and Sean Tillmann. All three of them will also executive produce the single-camera comedy which 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."
'Whip It!': On the Set With Jimmy Fallon, Ellen Page and Alia Shawkat
September 30, 2009 11:09:44Counting down to the theatrical release of "Whip It!", Fox unleashed profile featurettes for the roller derby comedy drama. One of the on-set videos centers the attention on Jimmy Fallon. Coming from Yahoo! Movies, it features the comedian talking about his "sleazy MC" character Hot Tub Johnny, working with Drew Barrymore and what the movie has to offer.
In addition to this Fallon featurette, two other profile featurettes are also found. One from Yahoo! highlights on Ellen Page as she describes how her character, Bliss, finds herself when she joins a roller derby team. The other one from MySpace takes the focus on Alia Shawkat and how her character takes part in the movie.
Two More Joining Kristen Stewart in 'The Runaways'
June 30, 2009 04:06:05Following the addition of Scout Taylor-Compton, two more actresses are said to be joining the cast of "The Runaways". Latino Review broke the news of Alia Shawkat's casting, whereas Life & Style came out with the story that Tatum O'Neal has been tapped to star in the biopic movie.
Shawkat who plays acerbic teenager Maeby Funke in FOX's comedy series "Arrested Development" reportedly will be playing a character named Robin. Latino Review describes Robin as an 18-year-old tall and slender bass player who is the oldest and most feminine of the band, hinting further that the character may have been created in essence of the band's original Micki Steele.
