Alia Shawkat
Shawkat in 2013, photo by s_bukley/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Alia Martine Shawkat
Place of Birth: Riverside, California, United States
Date of Birth: April 18, 1989
Ethnicity:
*50% Iraqi
*25% Norwegian
*12.5% Irish
*12.5% Sicilian/Italian/Arbëreshë
Alia Shawkat is an American actress and artist. Her roles include the films The Final Girls, Green Room, and The To Do List, and the shows Search Party and Drunk History, among many other projects.
Her father was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and is a Muslim. Her mother is of one quarter Irish, one quarter Sicilian/Italian/Arbëreshë, and one half Norwegian, ancestry.
Alia’s father is sometimes described as being of Kurdish background. It is not clear if this is accurate. In interviews, Alia describes her father simply as being of Arab descent (for example, here and here).
Alia’s maternal grandfather was Paul Burke, an actor (Paul Raymond Burke, the son of Martin Joseph Burke and Santa Maria Palermo). Paul was born in Louisiana. Martin was the son of Martin Patrick Burke and Mary Julia Finnerty, who were Irish, from Galway. Santa was the daughter of parents from Italy, Paolo/Paul Proietto Palermo and Nicolina Liuzza. Paolo was Arbëreshë, from Santa Cristina Gela (Arbëresh: Sëndahstina), an Arbëreshë village in the province of Palermo, Sicily. He was the son of Giuseppe Palermo and Giovanna Musacchia.
Alia’s maternal grandmother was Alice Louise “Peggy” Wikan (the daughter of John Andreas/Andrew Ovesen Wikan and Fredricka/Fredrikke Marie “Freda” Fredriksdatter Hellesfiord). Alice was born in Wisconsin, to Norwegian parents. John was born in Vikan, Smøla, Møre og Romsdal, the son of Ove Ovesen Næbb/Wikan and Elen Andreasdatter Nelvik. Fredricka was born in Hellesfjord, Smøla, Møre og Romsdal, Edøy, the daughter of Fredrik Jakobsen Rosvoll and Marie Gurine Johansdatter Gjøstøl.
Sources: https://www.ocnal.com
Genealogy of Alia Shawkat (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Genealogy and obituary of Alia’s maternal grandfather, Paul Burke – http://www.findagrave.com
Marriage record of Alia’s maternal great-grandparents, Martin Joseph Burke and Santa Maria Palermo – https://www.familysearch.org
Italian —> Italian (Sicilian)
how do you know that?
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=173399384:
It says “native of Santa Cristina, Italy”
(it could be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cristina_Gela)
Also Paul Palermo’s wife is identified as Celia Sciambra and not as Nicolina Liuzza
Piana dei Greci mentioned in the obituary is also an Arbereshe village, and if I remember correctly Sciambra is an Arbereshe name (Shembra in Albanian), and so is Liuzzi.
therefore she must be tagged as such. Cool.
@bablah
just curious, how many languages do you manage to know/understand?
Fluently only English. But non-fluently Spanish, Russian, German and some Romanian. Everything else is just bits and pieces that I know from genealogy (and that includes Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Italian and French). I can’t really hold a conversation in those.
no Rusyn?
@andrew
Well, that’s ”almost Ukrainian”.
if you know some Spanish it would be easy to learn Portuguese. About other Romance languages, Italian sounds similar to Spanish but it’s much more closer to French. The grammar and vocabulary are almost identical, but the phonetic is different.
She said it in the video where she talks about her parents.
https://www.geni.com/people/Alia-Shawkat/6000000033349880871
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=41939899
I don’t find her attractive at all.
I’m sure she wouldn’t find you attractive as well…
You’re raged with jealousy HA! So I can’t state my opinion? I’m not going to find every girl attractive. Especially not spotted faces, I prefer blondes. Why don’t you go work out rather then acting like a feminazi? Men have standards and opinions, deal with it.
Ugly.