1. Alicia Roanne Witt was born on August 21,1975 and is an American actress and musician.
35 Facts About Alicia Witt
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Alicia Witt first came to fame as a child actress after being discovered by David Lynch, who cast her in Dune and Twin Peaks.
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Alicia Witt had a critically acclaimed role as a disturbed teenager in Fun, appeared as a music student in Mr Holland's Opus and as a terrorized college student in the horror film Urban Legend.
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Alicia Witt appeared in Vanilla Sky, Two Weeks Notice, Last Holiday, 88 Minutes, I Care A Lot and Longlegs.
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Alicia Witt has made television appearances in shows such as The Walking Dead, The Sopranos, Friday Night Lights, Twin Peaks: The Return, CSI: Miami, Supernatural, Justified and Orange Is the New Black.
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Alicia Witt has starred in nine annual Hallmark Christmas films, the first broadcast in 2013.
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Alicia Witt was born on August 21,1975 in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Diane, a junior high school reading teacher, and Robert Alicia Witt, a science teacher and photographer.
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Alicia Witt's mother was an American and Guinness World Record holder for the longest hair from 1989 to 1996.
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Lynch began working with her in film and television before Alicia Witt earned her high-school equivalency credential at age 14.
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Alicia Witt worked with Lynch again when she appeared in an episode of Twin Peaks, playing the younger sister of Lara Flynn Boyle's character Donna.
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In 1994, Alicia 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 Film Festival.
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Alicia Witt was then cast in Four Rooms as Madonna's lover in the episode "The Missing Ingredient".
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Alicia Witt was introduced to a larger audience in the role of Cybill Shepherd's daughter, Zoey Woodbine, in the sitcom Cybill.
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In 2000, Witt had starring roles on episodes of the television shows Ally McBeal and The Sopranos, the lead role in the Matthew Huffman comedy Playing Mona Lisa and a part in John Waters' Cecil B Demented.
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Alicia Witt played "Two", the college graduate discussing loss of her virginity, in Rodrigo Garcia's Ten Tiny Love Stories and played the role of promiscuous Barbie, half-sister of the title character, in American Girl.
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Alicia Witt appeared in Marc Lawrence's romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice.
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Between the two projects, Alicia Witt went to South Africa to shoot a film interpretation of the epic poem "Das Nibelungenlied", played one of the central characters, Kriemhild, in the German television film Kingdom in Twilight.
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Alicia Witt appeared in the role of Amy in the film Peep World.
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Alicia Witt appeared as the character Elaine Clayton in Cowgirls 'n Angels, and in 2013, co-starred in the independent film Cold Turkey ; therein, she additionally performed an original musical piece over the end credits.
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Alicia Witt appeared in four Christmas films in 2013: the feature film Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas, A Snow Globe Christmas for the Lifetime Channel and A Very Merry Mix-Up for the Hallmark Channel and in 2014, the Hallmark Channel's Christmas at Cartwright's.
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Also in 2014, Alicia Witt appeared in a guest-starring role on the DirecTV series, Kingdom, which aired that October.
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Alicia Witt filmed a guest-starring role on season 12 of Supernatural as Lily Sunder, a former enemy of Castiel's.
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In 2024, Alicia Witt starred in Oz Perkins's horror film Longlegs, opposite Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage.
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Alicia Witt made her stage debut in 2001, at Los Angeles' historic Tiffany Theater, in Robbie Fox's musical The Gift, in which she played a high-priced, albeit disease-carrying, stripper.
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Alicia Witt performed alongside Amber Tamblyn in Neil LaBute's play, Reasons to Be Pretty, at the Geffen Playhouse, which ran until August 31,2014.
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In 2009, Alicia Witt released her self-titled extended play album, followed by Live at Rockwood in 2012 and Revisionary History in 2015; the latter was produced by Ben Folds.
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In 2016, Alicia Witt joined the cast of ABC's Nashville in a recurring capacity playing established country singer Autumn Chase.
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Alicia Witt is currently finishing recording her new album, which she co-produced with Jordan Lehning and Bill Reynolds.
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In 2020, Alicia Witt released two new Christmas songs, as heard in her Hallmark Christmas film, Christmas Tree Lane.
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Alicia Witt was ranked No 72 and No 64 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women.
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On June 14,2004, Alicia Witt modeled what is believed to be the most expensive hat ever made, for Christie's auction house in London.
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In 2023, Alicia Witt competed in season nine of The Masked Singer as "Dandelion".
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On December 20,2021, Alicia Witt's parents were found dead in their Worcester, Massachusetts, home.
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Alicia Witt battled breast cancer in 2021, and has been cancer-free since 2022 after undergoing chemotherapy and a mastectomy.
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In light of her cancer diagnosis and treatment, Alicia Witt has quit drinking alcohol.