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Alicia Roanne Witt (born August 21,
1975) is an American film, stage and television actress.
Early life: Witt was
born in Worcester, Massachusetts to Diane, a junior high
school reading teacher, and Robert Witt, a science
teacher and photographer. She has a brother, Ian. Witt
was discovered by David Lynch when she appeared on the
television show That's Incredible! in 1980; she had
recited Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
He cast her in the movie Dune (1984),
where she played Paul Atreides' young sister Alia
Atreides. Afterwards, she left Hollywood to concentrate
on her studies and music. She was home schooled by her
parents. She studied piano at Boston University and won
several national and international classical piano
competitions, including the "Bartok-Kabalevsky
International Piano Competition".
At age fourteen, Witt earned her high school diploma.
Shortly thereafter, she moved to Hollywood with her
mother (who was noted from 1988-93 in the Guinness Book
of Records for the world's longest hair; it is not known
for sure if Diane still has her record breaking hair) to
pursue a career as a full-time actress. Soon, David
Lynch, to whom she refers as a mentor, created the role
of Gersten Hayward especially for her in his successful
series Twin Peaks. He cast her again in Blackout, a
segment in his short-lived HBO series Hotel Room. That
was the last collaboration between the two for a while.
Adult career: During
this time, Witt supported herself by playing piano at
the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. She went on to play
small parts in Mike Figgis' Liebestraum (in which her
brother Ian also appears), the Gen-X drama Bodies, Rest
& Motion and the TV movie The Disappearance of
Vonnie. In 1994, Witt landed her first lead role in a
film, playing a disturbed teenager named Bonnie in Fun.
She received the Special Jury Recognition Award at the
Sundance Festival and was nominated for Best Actress at
the Independent Spirit Awards. This performance made
Madonna want Witt to be cast as her witch-lover in the
first segment The missing ingredient of Four Rooms.
Witt was introduced to a larger audience playing the
role of Zoey Woodbine, daughter of actress Cybill
Shepherd's character in the sitcom Cybill from 1995 to
1998. Between seasons she starred in films: Mr.
Holland's Opus, Alexander Payne's abortion comedy
Citizen Ruth, Passion's Way and Bongwater. After Cybill
was cancelled, Witt received a leading role in the
Scream-ish campus-horror Urban Legend and the animated
feature Genął which was never released because the
studio stopped funding before the completion of the
movie.
In 2000, Witt had starring roles on the television shows
Ally McBeal and The Sopranos; the lead role in the
comedy Playing Mona Lisa, an instant-classic turn as an
anal porn star in 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 following, Witt's acting
career slowed down. She had a small part in Cameron
Crowe's Vanilla Sky, which was intended as a reference
to her roles in Dune and Liebestraum. She also played a
college graduate who discussed losing her virginity in
the experimental Ten Tiny Love Stories and the
trailer-trash girl Barbie in American Girl, which was
released to video in 2005.
She appeared in the 2002 romantic comedy Two Weeks
Notice. In 2003 and 2004, she turned her back on
Hollywood and lived primarily in the UK filming The
Upside of Anger opposite Kevin Costner; and she starred
as Evelyn in a stage-production of Neil LaBute's The
Shape of Things. Between the two projects, she went to
South Africa to shoot the German TV movie Kingdom in
Twilight which also goes by the name The Sword of Xanten
and The Ring of the Nibelungs.
She played Kriemhild in this filmic
interpretation of the epic poem Das Nibelungenlied,
which was released in the US as Dark Kingdom: The Dragon
King. On June 14, 2004, Witt modeled what is believed to
be the most expensive hat ever made, for Christie's
auction house in London. The Champrau d'Amour, designed
by Louis Mariette, is valued at $2.7 million (US) and is
covered in diamonds. See the hat.
Witt will join the cast of Law & Order: Criminal
Intent for the 2007-08 season as Det. Nola Falacci, a
character who will be a temporary replacement for
Julianne Nicholson's character as Nicholson is out on
maternity leave. |
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