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Alicia just finished shooting the independent feature ‘Cowgirls n Angels‘ with James Cromwell. Just prior to this, she filmed Away From Here, starring opposite Nick Stahl, produced by Kate Cohen and Terry Leonard. She was just seen in the 5th season of Friday Night Lights on NBC in which she reprises her Season 4 role of ‘Cheryl’.
Alicia played the lead female role of ‘Michelle’ in Brian Jun‘s independent feature Joint Body, which premiered at the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival and screened this October at the Chicago International Film Festival. Starring opposite Mark Pellegrino, Alicia plays an exotic dancer and rape victim who finds herself running from the law after her attacker is murdered. On a lighter note, Alicia also appeared earlier this year as a bride-to-be in Larry Levinson’s Hallmark movie, Backyard Wedding. Alicia plays the lead role of ‘Kim’, who is 2 weeks from the altar when a former flame reenters her life forcing herself to question her choice of groom.This spring she also appeared in Peep World, an independent ensemble comedy starring Sarah Silverman, Michael C. Hall and Rainn Wilson.

Last June The Pond, a short film in which Alicia starred as a woman grieving the sudden loss of her husband, was invited to screen at the Palm Springs International Shortfest which marked the piece’s World wide premiere and the start of its festival run. The Pond, written and directed by Dan Hannon, also stars David Morse. It has played at 13 film festivals so far and won numerous awards.Recently, Alicia appeared in 88 Minutes opposite Al Pacino for director Jon Avnet. Witt played a graduate student and teaching assistant with whom Pacino’s character, a forensic psychiatrist, has a complicated relationship. She also appeared on Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Detective Nola Falacci opposite Chris Noth; Two and a Half Men as a teacher turned stripper; and is recurring on The Mentalist as a blind woman. Alicia also appeared on CSI: Miami this spring as a serial killer and is currently recurring on The Mentalist as blind pianist Rosalind Harker.

Witt was seen in Paramount’s Last Holiday with Queen Latifah. She also starred in New Line’s critically acclaimed film The Upside of Anger. Witt appeared in the film opposite Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood and Keri Russell. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.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 in spring 2004 with Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things. She was most recently seen on stage in the new play Dissonance at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

In 2002, Witt appeared in the Warner Bros. romantic comedy, Two Weeks Notice, opposite Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock. She was also seen in the John Waters film Cecil B. Demented, also starring Stephen Dorff and Melanie Griffith, as well as director Cameron Crowe’s Vanilla Sky, opposite Tom Cruise.

In addition to her acting work, Alicia is a singer/songwriter. Her self-titled first EP was released on iTunes in June 2009 and her music can be heard on MySpace. For the last three years, she has been performing her original music at numerous venues including Joe’s Pub in New York City and Hotel Café in Los Angeles. Witt and her band recently performed live on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and her first music video debuted on MTVu and VH1.com.

Witt combined her acting talents with her skills as a classically trained pianist in the romantic comedy, Playing Mona Lisa. For this role, she won a Best Actress Award at the US Comedy Arts Festival. Alicia made her directorial debut with the short film Belinda’s Swan Song, which she also wrote. The film premiered at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and was screened at 9 additional festivals around the world, including the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.On television, Witt has made guest appearances on the phenomenally successful HBO series, The Sopranos and the Emmy award winning Ally McBeal . She previously starred for four seasons as Cybill Shepherd’s daughter Zoey on the hit CBS sitcom Cybill.

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 movie, Urban Legend. Alicia made her film debut in David Lynch’s Dune, and by the age of fourteen, received her high school diploma and moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting full time. Once in Los Angeles, Lynch cast her in his cult classic television series, Twin Peaks, as Gersten Hayward, a part that he had written specifically for Witt. Following this, Lynch utilized Alicia’s talents once again in his HBO trilogy, Hotel Room, in which she portrayed a young woman with multiple personality disorder.

Alicia appeared in Mr. Holland’s Opus, opposite Richard Dreyfuss, 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. Other film credits include American Girl, Mike Figgis’ Liebstraum, Bodies, Rest and Motion, starring Eric Stoltz and Bridget Fonda, and Bongwater opposite Luke Wilson.