Alicia Witt
American actress and singer-songwriter · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1975 · age 51
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.
Alicia Witt is read about 3,153 times a day, in 42 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
TwistedFilm, Rebecca2023
Fuzzy HeadFilm, Mother2021
I Care a LotFilm, Dr. Karen Amos2020
DC's StargirlSeries, Maggie (uncredited)2019
Our Christmas Love SongFilm, Melody Jones2016
Christmas ListFilm, Isobel Gray2014“I like digging into these characters that are a lot more complex, and there's a lot that isn't apparent on the surface … In a weird way, you can access all that fear and pain.”In their words30 May 2014As quoted in "Why Now Is a Divine Time for Alicia Witt", by Sarah Beauchamp at Huffington Post
The LibrariansSeries, 2014Lucinda McCabe / Morgan le Fay
Christmas at Cartwright'sFilm, 2014Nicky2012
ElementarySeries, Dana Powell
Bending The RulesFilm, 2012D.A. Roslyn Wohl2010“so the moral of this week is: if u do something really, really stupid in front of someone ur just getting to know & they still think youre awesome, then you got yourself a friend.”In their words14 August 2010Extended tweet at TwitLonger
JustifiedSeries, 2010Wendy Crowe2007
88 MinutesFilm, Kim Cummings2006“Everything was okay, as long as I could dream. Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true.”In their words"Belinda" in Belinda's Swan Song (2006)
Friday Night LightsSeries, 2006Cheryl2005
The Upside of AngerFilm, Hadley Wolfmeyer2003
Two and a Half MenSeries, Miss Pasternak2002
American GirlFilm, Barbie2001
Law & Order: Criminal IntentSeries, Nola Falacci1998
BongwaterFilm, Serena1997
Ally McBealSeries, Hope Mercey1995
Four RoomsFilm, Kiva1993
Late Night with Conan O'BrienSeries
Bodies, Rest & MotionFilm, 1993Elizabeth1984
Jeopardy!Series
DuneFilm, 1984Alia1975Born21 August 1975People around Alicia
Close ties
David Lynch Directed Dune and Twin Peaks
Uli Edel Directed Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (2004)
David Carson Directed Blue Smoke (2007)
Lawrence Bender Produced Four Rooms (1996)
Sandra Bullock Produced Two Weeks Notice (2003)
Tom Cruise Produced Vanilla Sky (2001)
Quentin Tarantino Directed Four Rooms (1996)
Nicolas Cage Produced Longlegs (2024)
Robert Zemeckis Produced Last Holiday (2006)
Max von Sydow Also in Dune and Ring of the Nibelungs
Tyler Perry Directed A Madea Christmas (2013)
John Waters Directed Cecil B. Demented (2000)
William Mapother Also in The Mentalist and Vanilla Sky
Tim Kang Also in The Mentalist and Two Weeks Notice
Jim Lee Produced Gen¹³ (2000)
Leslie Hope Also in The Mentalist and Fun
John Fiedler Produced Cecil B. Demented (2000)
Oz Perkins Directed Longlegs (2024)
Neal H. Moritz Produced Urban Legend (1999)
Jon Avnet Produced 88 Minutes (2007)
Allison Anders Directed Four Rooms (1996)
Alexandre Rockwell Directed Four Rooms (1996)
Stephen Herek Directed Mr. Holland's Opus (1996)
Cathy Konrad Produced Citizen Ruth (1996)
Known for
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Last Holiday 2006
Mr. Holland's Opus 1995
Vanilla Sky 2001
I Care a Lot 2021
Citizen Ruth 1996
Filmography 40
95 credits on file
Television 24
Media & music
On YouTube
9K subscribersListen
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About this person
Her latest album, produced by Joe Henry, will be released in summer 2026 through Thirty Tigers and is a tribute to her relationship to Lynch, who she has described as having ‘changed my life in every way a life could be changed'. Witt was a regular on Cybill Shepherd's sitcom Cybill (1995-1998) for four seasons, playing the title character's daughter, Zoey Woodbine. She had a critically acclaimed role as a disturbed teenager in Fun (1994), appeared as a music student in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) and as a terrorized college student in the horror film Urban Legend (1998). She appeared in Vanilla Sky (2001) as Libby, Two Weeks Notice (2002), Last Holiday (2006), 88 Minutes (2007) as Kim Cummings, I Care A Lot (2020) and Longlegs (2024). Witt has made television appearances in shows such as The Walking Dead, The Sopranos, Friday Night Lights as Cheryl, Twin Peaks: The Return as Gersten Hayward, CSI: Miami, Supernatural, Justified and Orange Is the New Black. She starred in five episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Detective Nola Falacci in Season 7, temporarily replacing actress Julianne Nicholson, who was on maternity leave.
