“We met and had a very fun, adventurous week together,” Shawkat said. She was flattered when they invited her to participate in the fair, and immediately knew she wanted to make it a joint ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shawkat said that she was “incredibly lucky” to be cast in the series and it was her mom, who has “amazing taste,” who first read ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It feels like the little movie that could,” Alia Shawkat says of “Atropia,” her latest film that took home the top prize at ...

Alia Shawkat is going to war — sort of — in her timely new comedy. Atropia, from writer-director Hailey Benton Gates, stars Shawkat, 36, as Fayruz, an actress in the titular nation — except it’s not a ...

Alia Shawkat took time to make peace with her Arrested Development past. Shawkat, 36, opened up on the Dec. 22 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, hosted by Josh Horowitz about her long career.