FrameThrower · Actors · Alia Shawkat
Alia Shawkat
8 films · 470 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2010–2019
Born 18 April 1989 · Riverside, California, USA
Alia Martine Shawkat is an American actress. She is known for her performances as Maeby Fünke in the Fox/Netflix television sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006; 2013–2019), Dory Sief in the TBS and HBO Max dark comedy series Search Party (2016–2022), and Gertie Michaels in the 2015 horror-comedy film The Final Girls, as well as her roles in State of Grace and The Old Man. She has also guest-starred as historical figures Frances Cleveland, Virginia Hall, and Alexander Hamilton on Comedy Central's Drunk History.
How their films are shot
Measured across 470 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Alia takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Alia takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 470 frames from Alia Shawkat's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.