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Biography

Alicia WittALICIA WITT 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 Emmy Award winning 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.

In the movie Playing Mona Lisa, Witt combines her acting talents with her skills as a classically trained pianist in this romantic comedy about a young woman on a downward spiral in her life. She was also seen in an episode of the Emmy award winning HBO series The Sopranos as a young Hollywood executive