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Alicia Witt has always been a young woman in a hurry. A prolific reader at the age of two, she had her own novelty act by the time she was four, performing scenes from Shakespeare on television shows like That's Incredible! and NBC's Today. Shortly thereafter, she saw her first movie, Dune -- in which she made her big-screen acting debut. By 14, she'd earned her high-school diploma in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she was home-schooled by her parents. Now 19, she makes no apologies for her impatience. "I've always wanted to accomplish everything I can right now," she says firmly. "I never wanted to wait for someone to show me how to do it."
So far, she hasn't had to do much waiting. Already widely noticed as Cybill Shepherd's disagreeable but fetching teenage daughter Zoe on the new CBS series Cybill, Witt is about to be seen in three new feature films. In Fun, she plays a wayward girl who drifts into murder (so convincingly that she won the Special Jury Prize for acting at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival). In Mr. Holland's Opus, she is a clarinet student -- "a really reserved, shy, wallflower type" -- taught by Richard Dreyfuss. And in Allison Anders's Four Rooms, she's a "bratty, mischievous" witch-in-training to Madonna and Lili Taylor.
With her flaming red hair, pale porcelain skin, and imposing height -- not to mention her remarkable self-assurance -- Witt never fails to attract attention. No wonder, then, that a tarot card reader she consulted while preparing for Four Rooms told her that this spring she will meet no fewer than "three different love interests all at the same time." Not that she's waiting around.
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