Jess Weixler
Jessica "Jess" Weixler (born June 8, 1981) is an American actress, best known to date as the lead in the comedy-horror film Teeth and the comedy The Big Bad Swim. She graduated in 1999 from Atherton High School in Louisville, Kentucky, where she also attended the Walden Theatre Conservatory Program and was in The River City Players acting group and in the Chamber Singers choral group and was voted "most talented", and then attended Juilliard. She was nominated for a Breakthrough Award at the Gotham Awards in 2007 and won the Special Jury Prize in Dramatic category For a juicy and jaw-dropping performance at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 both for her role in Teeth. She also appeared in the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In January 2009, she was named by New York Magazine as the "New Indie Queen" of the year and one of the fourteen "New Yorkers you need to know." She currently lives in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, New York. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jess Weixler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Monsters as Jill Lansing
- 2023 · Wayward as
- 2023 · Cabin Girl as Trina
- 2021 · The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Makeup Artist (voice)
- 2020 · Clock as
- 2020 · Fully Realized Humans as Jackie
- 2020 · Ava as Judy
- 2019 · The Death of Dick Long as Jane Long
- 2019 · Chained for Life as Mabel
- 2019 · It Chapter Two as Audra Phillips
- 2018 · Who We Are Now as Gabby
- 2018 · Deception as Joan
- 2018 · Entanglement as Hanna
- 2017 · The Son as Sally McCullough
- 2016 · Sister Cities as Austin Baxter
- 2016 · Money as Sylvia
- 2015 · Lamb as Linny
- 2014 · The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her as Katy Rigby
- 2014 · Apartment Troubles as Nicole
- 2014 · The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them as Katy Rigby
- 2014 · Listen Up Philip as Holly
- 2013 · The Face of Love as Summer
- 2013 · Free Samples as Jillian
- 2013 · Somebody Up There Likes Me as Lyla
- 2012 · The Normals as Gretchen
- 2012 · Best Man Down as Kristin
- 2012 · County as Erica Kinsey
- 2011 · The Lie as Clover
- 2011 · The Man Who Never Cried as Ginny
- 2010 · A Woman as Julie
- 2010 · Audrey the Trainwreck as Tammy
- 2010 · As Good As Dead as Amy (uncredited)
- 2010 · Yes as Woman
- 2009 · Today's Special as Carrie
- 2009 · The Good Wife as Robyn Burdine
- 2009 · Welcome To Academia as Sophie
- 2009 · Alexander the Last as Alex
- 2009 · Peter and Vandy as Vandy
- 2008 · Teeth as Dawn O'Keefe
- 2006 · The Big Bad Swim as Jordan Gallagher
- 2005 · Little Manhattan as TV Cowgirl
- 2005 · Medium as Mandy Sutton
- 2002 · Hack as Martha Skulnick
- 2002 · Everwood as Nikki
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Laura Green
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Amy Buckley
- 1990 · Law & Order as Carrie Newton
- Future · Tender as
- Future · Let's Love as Jessica