Alicia Roanne Witt is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and pianist. She first came to fame as a child actress after being discovered by David Lynch. Witt has made television appearances in The Walking Dead, The Sopranos, Nashville, Two and a Half Men, Friday Night Lights, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Mentalist, Cybill, Justified, Twin Peaks: The Return, CSI: Miami, Andy, and Orange Is the New Black. Her 4th release, 2018’s 15,000 Days, was produced by Grammy winner Jacquire King.
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Alicia Roanne Witt is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and pianist. She first came to fame as a child actress after being discovered by David Lynch. Witt has made television appearances in The Walking Dead, The Sopranos, Nashville, Two and a Half Men, Friday Night Lights, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Mentalist, Cybill, Justified, Twin Peaks: The Return, CSI: Miami, Andy, and Orange Is the New Black. Her 4th release, 2018’s 15,000 Days, was produced by Grammy winner Jacquire King, and she is currently co-producing her 5th album. Witt was born on August 21, 1975, in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Diane, a junior high school reading teacher, and Robert Witt, a science teacher and photographer. She has a brother, Ian. Her acting talent was recognized by director David Lynch in 1980, when he heard her recite Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet on the television show That’s Incredible! at age 5.
Witt’s discovery by Lynch led to his casting of the \”flame-haired\” child in the movie Dune, as Paul Atreides’s sister Alia; she turned 8 during filming. In 1994, Witt landed her first lead role in a film, playing a disturbed, murderous teenager in Fun and receiving the Special Jury Recognition Award at the Sundance Festival. She was introduced to a larger audience in the role of Cybill Shepherd’s daughter, Zoey Woodbine, in the sitcom Cybill. While playing that part, from 1995 to 1998, she also had film roles in Stephen Herek’s Mr. Holland’s Opus, Alexander Payne’s Citizen Ruth, Robert Allan Ackerman’s Passion’s Way, and Richard Sears’ comedy Bongwater. In 2003–04, she took up residence in the United Kingdom, though she portrayed Joan Allen in the US-based comic drama The Upside of Anger Between these two projects.
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