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Alicia Witt (born August 21, 1975 in Worcester, MassachusettsAlicia Witt is an American actress.

Witt was discovered by David Lynch, when she appeared on the first episode of .

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 . 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' .

In 1994, Alicia landed her first lead-role in a feature film playing the disturbed teenager Bonnie in .

She was introduced to a larger audience playing the role of Zoey Woodbine, the daughter of actress Cybill Shepherd's character in the sitcom which was never released, because the studio stopped funding before the completion of the movie.

2000 was a busy year for Witt with guest starring roles on the shows at the now closed Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles, in which she played a high priced stripper with a disease.

In the years following, things got more quiet around Witt. She had a small part in Cameron Crowe's , which was released to video in 2005.

She turned down the role of Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's .

In 2003 and 2004, she turned her back to Hollywood and lived in the UK most of the time, filming , which was released in the US as "Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King."

Witt currently resides in L.A. with her cat Jessie and her boyfriend, screenwriter Nathan Foulger.

On June 14, 2004, Witt modeled what is believed to be the most expensive hat ever made, for Christie's auction house in London. The