Alicia Roanne Witt (born August 21, 1975 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American actress.

Witt was found by David Lynch, when she appeared on the 1st episode of ''That's Incredible'' in 1980, reciting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. He so cast her for the picture Dune (1984), where she played Muad'Dib's young sister Alia of the Knife.

Fallowing this, Witt left Hollywood for sextet years, concentrating in school & music. She took piano lessons at Boston University & won several national and international authoritative soft competitions, including a Bartok-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition.

At age Xiv, Alicia earned her High School Diploma &, shortly thenceforth, moved for good to Hollywood by having her mother (world health organization is noted in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's hanker hair) to pursue the career as a good-whale actress. Shortly, David Lynch, whom she refers to as a wise man, created the role of Gersten Hayward in his hit series Twin Peaks especially for her. He would once again cast her in the section Blackout around his short-transitory HBO series Hotel Room. That was a previous collaboration between them for the instance existence. At that instance, Alicia was already supporting herself swimming a piano at a Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

She so went around to little area in Mike Figgis' Liebestraum (in which her brother Ian also appears), a Gen-X drama Bodies, Rest & Motion and the TV-Movie The Disappearance of Vonnie.

Around 1994, Alicia landed her first lead-role withwithin a feature swimming the disturbed teen Bonnie in Fun. She received a Favorite Jury Recognition Award at a Sundance Festival and was nominated for Best Actress at a Independent Spirit Awards. This performance processed Madonna want Witt to be cast when her witch-lover in the 1st section A missing ingredient of Four Rooms.

She was introduced to a big audience swimming a role of Zoey Woodbine, the girl of actress Cybill Shepherd's character in the sitcom Cybill from 1995 to 1998. Between seasons, she keep starring inside feature; ''Mr. Holland's Opus'', Alexander Payne's abortion comedy Citizen Ruth, ''Passion's Way and Bongwater.

Fallowing Cybill got cancelled, Alicia got an additional leading role in the Scream-ish campus-horror Urban Legend and the alive feature Gen 13 which was never released, because a studio stopped funding prior to a completion of the film.

2000 was a occupy month for Witt by using guest starring roles on the shows Ally McBeal, and The Sopranos, the lead in the comedy Playing Mona Lisa'', an instant-classic turn as an anal porn star within John Waters' Cecil B. Demented and her stage-debut in Robbie Fox's musical The Gift at the now closed Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles, in which she played a high priced stripper with a disease.

In the years as a consequence, items had additional quietly as much as Witt. She got the little a portion within Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky, which was inside fact designed as a information to her roles in Dune and Liebestraum. She besides played the college graduate world health organization talks all about losing her virginity in the experimental Ten Tiny Love Stories and the trailer trash girl Barbie within American Girl, which was released to streaming within 2005.

She turned down the role of Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man and made her comeback to mainstream cinema in the 2002 romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice.

Within 2003 and 2004, she turned her back to Hollywood and sleep in the UK most of the time, filming The Upside of Anger opposite Kevin Costner and starring as Evelyn within the freshly stage-production of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things. Inside between these 2 gigs, she attend South Africa to shoot a German TV-Movie Kingdom in Twilight. She plays Kriemhild in this filmic interpretation of the epic poem Das Nibelungenlied.

Witt presently lives within L.The. using her cat Jessie & her fellow, film writer Nathan Foulger.

In June 14, 2004, Witt modeled what is believed to be a virtually all expensive hat ever processed, for Christie's auction house in London. A ''Champrau five hundred'Liaison, designed by Louis Mariette, is valued at $2.7 million (US) & is covered inside diamonds.

Partial filmography
The Upside of Anger (2005) Two Weeks Notice as June Carter Vanilla Sky (2001) as Libby Playing Mona Lisa (2000) as Claire Goldstein Cecil B. Demented (2000) as Cherish Urban Legend (1998) as Natalie Simon Citizen Ruth (1996) as Cheryl Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) as Gertrude Lang Four Rooms (1995) as Kiva Fun (1994) as Bonnie Twin Peaks (1990, Episode 8) when Gersten Hayward Dune'' (1984) as Alia