Alicia Roanne Witt (born August 21, 1975 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American actress.
Witt was discovered by David Lynch, when she appeared on the first episode of That's Incredible in 1980, reciting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. He then cast her for the movie Dune (1984), where she played Muad'Dib's young sister Alia of the Knife.
After this, Witt left Hollywood for six years, concentrating on school and music. She took piano lessons at Boston University and won several national and international classical piano competitions, including the Bartok-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition.
At age 14, Alicia earned her High School Diploma and, shortly thereafter, moved permanently to Hollywood with her mother (who is noted in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest hair) to pursue a career as a full-time actress. Soon, David Lynch, whom she refers to as a mentor, created the role of Gersten Hayward in his hit series Twin Peaks especially for her. He would again cast her in the segment Blackout in his short-lived HBO series Hotel Room. That was the last collaboration between the two for the time being. At that time, Alicia was already supporting herself playing the piano at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
She then went on to 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.
Witt was discovered by David Lynch, when she appeared on the first episode of That's Incredible in 1980, reciting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. He then cast her for the movie Dune (1984), where she played Muad'Dib's young sister Alia of the Knife.
After this, Witt left Hollywood for six years, concentrating on school and music. She took piano lessons at Boston University and won several national and international classical piano competitions, including the Bartok-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition.
At age 14, Alicia earned her High School Diploma and, shortly thereafter, moved permanently to Hollywood with her mother (who is noted in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest hair) to pursue a career as a full-time actress. Soon, David Lynch, whom she refers to as a mentor, created the role of Gersten Hayward in his hit series Twin Peaks especially for her. He would again cast her in the segment Blackout in his short-lived HBO series Hotel Room. That was the last collaboration between the two for the time being. At that time, Alicia was already supporting herself playing the piano at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
She then went on to 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.
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