Alicia Witt

"This is a voice to treasure" - Broadway World Singer-songwriter and award-winning actor Alicia Witt starred in last summer's smash hit movie Longlegs, opposite Nicolas Cage - earning $129M at the box office and becoming 2024's biggest independent film. Witt’s full length self-produced Christmas album, I Think I’m Spending Christmas With You, came out in November 2024. Witt has performed on film, TV and stage for four decades. A classically trained competitive pianist, Alicia’s music has been described as ‘sharply personal, boldly melodic pop originals in the Carole King/Billy Joel vein’ (Philadelphia Inquirer). Alicia appeared on Fox's The Masked Singer, winning her first episode with her rendition of Over The Rainbow. She is also a familiar face to holiday movie watchers, with 9 original Christmas movies (2013-2020), many of which feature her original music. Alicia's career as a TV/film actor began with David Lynch's DUNE at age 7. Her over 100 credits include Netflix’s 2022 hit I Care A Lot; Orange Is The New Black; The Walking Dead; ABC’s Nashville; Justified; Twin Peaks; Two Weeks Notice; Mr Holland’s Opus; The Sopranos; Cybill; Urban Legend; and Fun, which earned her acting awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Gijon International Festival, & an Independent Spirit Award nomination. She has also been nominated for Screen Actors' Guild and Saturn Awards. Alicia charted in the Billboard Top Thirty for 5 weeks with 2021’s piano power ballad Chasing Shadows, off her album The Conduit, which she co-produced. Witt started out in music by playing piano in the restaurant of the Beverly/Wilshire Hotel in the early 1990s. The Nashville Scene said of her: "Witt's new album Revisionary History is a piano-pop gem that sounds by turns like Grey Seal era Elton John, an alt-universe Fiona Apple and a film-noir chanteuse notching her nights in cigarette burns on the fallboard." Alicia has played multiple roles combining her skills as a musician and an actor, including as country singer Autumn Chase on ABC’s Nashville; she performs several songs throughout Season Four. She can be seen playing the piano in David Lynch’s original Twin Peaks in 1990 - a role she reprised in the return in 2018. Alicia’s skills on the piano were also worked into her character, Zoey, on the sitcom Cybill (1995-1998) and in the film Playing Mona Lisa (2000). She also sang on the hit series Ally McBeal, including a song with Randy Newman, and twice portrayed singer-songwriters in her Christmas movies, including Christmas Tree Lane, which she wrote the story for and produced, as well as contributed two original songs. '...her skilled fingers flying over the keys and her rangy, honeyed voice, clear as crystal, pretty as a stained-glass window, carrying the audience into the ether, as an audible cloud, heaven bound. Patrons around the room could be seen to clasp hands over hearts and heard, sighing with beatific bliss. This is a voice to treasure, wrapped around visceral visuals, and memorable melodies. " — Broadway World