Alicia Witt
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Alicia Witt has had a three-decade long career, starting with her acting debut as Alia in David Lynch’s classic ‘Dune’.
Witt was most recently seen on the blockbuster hit series ‘The Walking Dead’, as well as season 4 of the Emmy-award winning Showtime series ‘House of Lies’ opposite Don Cheadle. This past season, Alicia also appeared on the new DirecTv series ‘The Kingdom’, on the hit CBS show ‘Elementary’, and in 2015 in the new TNT series ‘The Librarians’, a role which she will be reprising on Season 2. She will soon be seen in a major upcoming arc on NBC’s ‘Nashville”, where she utilize her talents as a singer/songwriter to portray a country music star opposite her former ’Friday Night Lights’ costar Connie Britton.
In 2014, Alicia joined the 5th Season of Emmy-award winning FX series ‘Justified’ with Timothy Olyphant. Alicia played Wendy Crowe, the smart and sexy paralegal sister of crime lord Darryl Crowe (Michael Rapaport) who takes matters into her own hands to bring him to justice in the Season 5 finale. Last summer she appeared at the Geffen Playhouse in the Los Angeles debut of Tony-nominated Neil Labute play ‘reasons to be pretty’. The four-hander also starred Amber Tamblyn, Shawn Hatosy and Nick Gehlfuss, and was directed by Randall Arney, Artistic Director of the Geffen.
To viewers of the Hallmark Channel, Alicia may be best known for her Christmas films ‘Christmas at Cartwright’s’ (2014) and ‘A Very Merry Mix-Up‘ (2013), which have become their highest rated of all time.
In 2013, Alicia appeared opposite Peter Bogdanovich and Cheryl Hines in the independent family dramedy ‘Cold Turkey‘, in a performance which NY Daily News critic David Edelstein hailed as one of the best of 2013, and garnered the headline ‘See Cold Turkey For Alicia Witt’s Performance’ in the Village Voice. Also released in 2013 was the film ‘I Do‘, which had a nationwide theatrical release after screening at 25 festivals worldwide and winning 10 awards. Alicia has two songs featured in this film as well.
Alicia is an accomplished singer/songwriter. A classically trained pianist, for the past 7 years she has been performing her original piano-driven rock all across the world, and has opened for Ben Folds Five, Jimmy Webb and John Fullbright. Her newest album, ‘Revisionary History’, is produced by Ben Folds and released through Compass Records on May 5, 2015. Her self-titled first EP came out in 2009 and her Kickstarter funded album, ‘Live at Rockwood‘ was released following a self-booked national tour in 2012. Her music can be found at www.aliciawittmusic.com.
Other recent credits include the 2012 Samuel Goldwyn film ‘Cowgirls n Angels‘, with James Cromwell, and Seasons 4 and 5 of the Emmy award winning Friday Night Lights on NBC. Alicia starred opposite Al Pacino in the 2008 feature film ‘88 Minutes‘ for director Jon Avnet. That same year she played Detective Nola Falacci opposite Chris Noth on NBC’s ‘Law & Order: Criminal Intent‘ for half a season, taking over for Julianne Nicholson while she was on maternity leave.
Other roles include Paramount’s ‘Last Holiday‘ with Queen Latifah and Timothy Hutton, and New Line’s critically acclaimed film ‘The Upside of Anger’, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, opposite Joan Allen & Kevin Costner. She also starred in Warner Bros’ hit romantic comedy, ‘Two Weeks Notice‘, opposite Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock.
Witt appeared on-stage in fall 2006 at London’s Royal Court Theatre in Terry Johnson’s ‘Piano/Forte‘. She made her West End debut with Neil LaBute’s ‘The Shape of Things‘. She was also seen on stage in ‘Dissonance‘ at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. In April 2015, Alicia took the stage at the Gramercy Theatre for the 24 Hour Musicals off Broadway, for the 4th time.
In 1994, Witt appeared in the critically acclaimed ‘Fun‘, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, directed by Rafal Zielinski, depicts a tale of two disturbed young girls whose quest for fun leads them to murder. Witt received the “Special Jury Recognition” Award at Sundance and a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award. In 1998, she starred in Columbia Tristar’s hit horror movie, ‘Urban Legend‘.
On television, Witt starred for four seasons as Cybill Shepherd’s daughter Zoey on the hit CBS sitcom ‘Cybill’. She also guest starred on the phenomenally successful HBO series, ‘The Sopranos’, and the Emmy award winning ‘Ally McBeal’, in which she sang with Randy Newman. Witt combined her acting talents with her skills as a pianist in the romantic comedy, ‘Playing Mona Lisa‘.
Alicia made her directorial debut with the short film ‘Belinda’s Swan Song‘, which she also wrote. The film premiered at the 2006 Rhode Island International Film Festival and was screened at 9 additional festivals around the world, including the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.
She also appeared in ‘Mr. Holland’s Opus‘, opposite Richard Dreyfuss, as clarinet player Gertrude, as well as ‘Four Rooms‘ (Miramax) with Tim Roth, Madonna, and Lili Taylor, and directed by Quentin Tarantino, Allison Anders, Robert Rodriguez, and Alexandre Rockwell.
She was also seen in the John Waters film ‘Cecil B. Demented‘, with Stephen Dorff and Melanie Griffith, as well as director Cameron Crowe’s ‘Vanilla Sky‘, opposite Tom Cruise.
Other film credits include ‘Bongwater‘ opposite Luke Wilson; Mike Figgis’ ‘Liebstraum‘; ‘Bodies, Rest and Motion‘, starring Tim Roth and Bridget Fonda; ‘Peep World’ with Sarah Silverman, Michael C. Hall and Rainn Wilson; and critically acclaimed short ‘The Pond’ with David Morse.
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