Biography

Alicia Witt is well known to Hallmark audiences for her annual Christmas movies, beginning with 2013’s A Very Merry Mixup. Her eighth holiday film for the network, Christmas Love Song, will be out for the 2019 Christmas season.

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Most recently, Alicia was seen on the final season of Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black as Zelda. Her many credits include recent TV roles in The  Walking  Dead,  Supernatural, ABC’s Nashville, FOX’s The Exorcist, Netflix’s Disjointed  (with  Kathy  Bates), Amazon’s Lore, and Showtime’s 3rd  season  of  David  Lynch’s  Twin  Peaks.  Films include Two  Weeks  Notice,  Last  Holiday, The  Upside  of  Anger,  Mr. Holland’s  Opus, Urban Legend, Four  Rooms, 88  Minutes,  Urban Legend and Vanilla  Sky, and her first role at age 7 as Alia in David Lynch’s sci-fi classic Dune. Other significant  roles include  Showtime’s  House  of  Lies,  NBC’s Friday  Night  Lights,  CBS’  The  Mentalist  and  NBC’s  Law  &  Order:  Criminal  Intent.  She spent 4  years  on  the  CBS  hit  show  Cybill  and has also appeared on the HBO  series The Sopranos, CBS’s  Two  and  a  Half  Men,  Ally  McBeal, and  David  Lynch’s  original Twin Peaks. Alicia has just finished filming I Care A Lot with Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage and Dianne Wiest, due out next year.

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Also known as a singer-songwriter, Alicia has performed her original piano-driven pop music all over the world, including a performance at the renowned Grand Ol’ Opry in Nashville, where she lives. Alicia has opened for Ben Folds Five, Rachel  Platten, and Jimmy Webb to name a few. Her most recent release, 15000 Days, was produced by Grammy-winning producer Jacquire King (James Bay, Norah Jones, Kings of Leon, Dawes). She has appeared on NPR’s Weekend Edition, as musical guest on CBS'  Late  Show  with  Craig  Ferguson,  The  Queen  Latifah Show, WGBH’S Open Studio on PBS, as well as many performances on Hallmark’s  Home  &  Family  Show.

Alicia’s music has been heard in numerous TV shows and movies over the past 10 years, including her ironic Christmas song ‘I’m Not Ready for Christmas’, which was featured in her Hallmark Christmas movie of the same name.