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Alicia Witt
Alicia Roanne Witt is an American actress and musician. She first came to fame as a child actress after being discovered by David Lynch, who cast her in Dune (1984) as Alia and Twin Peaks (1990) as Gersten Hayward, a role she reprised in ‘’Twin Peaks: The Return’’ (2017). Her 2026 album, Between Heaven and Earth, is a tribute to her relationship to Lynch and was described by the Times UK as ‘gorge…
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Born 21 August 1975 · Q236247
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2026· 13 entries
Published video “grateful for this beautiful day, and a whole new year. getting it started with my favorite dog❤️”.
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Published video “Alicia Witt | Between Heaven and Earth | Signed”.
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Published video “I’ve been so lucky to bring some amazing characters to life throughout my acting career❤️ #longlegs”.
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Published video “Alicia Witt Live Stream”.
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Nashville Scene: Alicia Witt on ‘Between Heaven and Earth’ and Channeling David Lynch
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Published video “Throwback to my role as Rosalind Harker on The Mentalist. #aliciawitt #thementalist #cbstv”.
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Published video “More love, more music, more of all of it. ❤️ #aliciawitt”.
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Published video “Which is your favorite? #aliciawitt #twoandahalfmen #lawandorder #lawandordercriminalintent”.
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Published video “Back with more red carpet looks! Which one is your favorite? #aliciawitt #longlegs #urbanlegend”.
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Published video “Throwback to my time on JustifiedFX! #ThrowbackThursday #Justified #TimothyOlyphant #AliciaWitt #FX”.
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Published video “Story time! 💅🏼Which came first for me—acting or music? 🎭🎶 Using my favorite #dazzledry”.
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Including Shiver, and The Big Kill, opposite Skeet Ulrich, Pete Holmes, and Natasha Leggero, from Live Nation Studios and Emmy winning The Daily Show head writer Daniel Radosh, and indie fly fishing drama My Mayfly, from
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2024· 2 entries
Released album “I Think I'm Spending Christmas With You”.
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Witt starred in Oz Perkins's smash hit horror film Longlegs, opposite Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage; the movie became the most successful independent film of 2024, earning over $128M at the box office alone
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2023· 2 entries
Released album “Witness”.
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Witt competed in season nine of The Masked Singer as "Dandelion"
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2022· 2 entries
As "probable cardiac dysrhythmia" due to the cold of their neglected and improperly heated home
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Witt appeared in the crime thriller Alice
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2021· 6 entries
Witt's parents were found dead in their Worcester, Massachusetts, home
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Witt released a book called Small Changes: A Rules-Free Guide to Add More Plant-Based Foods, Peace & Power to Your Life
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Released album “The Conduit”.
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Which she co-produced with Jordan Lehning and Bill Reynolds
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Witt battled breast cancer in 2021, and has been cancer-free since 2022 after undergoing chemotherapy and a mastectomy.
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And has been cancer-free since 2022 after undergoing chemotherapy and a mastectomy
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2020· 1 entry
Witt released two new Christmas songs, as heard in her Hallmark Christmas film, Christmas Tree Lane
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2019· 1 entry
Had a recurring role on the seventh season of Orange Is the New Black as Zelda
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2016· 1 entry
Witt joined the cast of ABC's Nashville in a recurring capacity playing established country singer Autumn Chase
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2015· 4 entries
Released ep “15,000 Days”.
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Released album “Revisionary History”.
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“Whatever you've accomplished there's always more to experience.”
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“All we can do is live every single day and do our best to be present with the ones that we love and with everybody that we come in contact with … The timing of everything seems too divine sometimes to ignore.”
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2014· 3 entries
Witt appeared in a guest-starring role on the DirecTV series, Kingdom, which aired that October
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In the fifth season of the FX series Justified she played Wendy Crowe, the brightest member of a Floridian crime family that gets entangled in the show's events in Kentucky
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The Hallmark Channel's Christmas at Cartwright's
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2013· 2 entries
Co-starred in the independent film Cold Turkey (opposite Peter Bogdanovich and Cheryl Hines); therein, she additionally performed an original musical piece over the end credits
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Witt and Folds performed a song they had co-written on the soundtrack for the independent film Cold Turkey
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Live at Rockwood”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released ep “Alicia Witt”.
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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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2004· 2 entries
Witt modeled what is believed to be the most expensive hat ever made, for Christie's auction house in London
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Starred as Evelyn in a stage production of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the New Ambassadors Theatre
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2003· 1 entry
Portrayed Joan Allen's daughter in the U
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2001· 1 entry
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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2000· 1 entry
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
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1994· 1 entry
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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1991· 1 entry
(her brother Ian also appears), the Gen-X drama Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993), and the television film The Disappearance of Vonnie (1994)
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1983· 1 entry
When casting director Jane Jenkins watched her 1980 appearance reciting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet on the television show That's Incredible
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1975· 2 entries
Born 1975-08-21.
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In Worcester, Massachusetts, to Diane (née Pietro), a junior high school reading teacher, and Robert Witt, a science teacher and photographer
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