Name
Jess Weixler
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1981-06-08 (45 years old)
Place of Birth
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Biography
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.
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Known For
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- 2021 The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Makeup Artist (voice)
- 2006 The Big Bad Swim as Jordan Gallagher
- 2009 Peter and Vandy as Vandy
- 2009 Alexander the Last as Alex
- 2008 Teeth as Dawn O'Keefe
- 2009 Today's Special as Carrie
- 2013 Somebody Up There Likes Me as Lyla
- 2013 Free Samples as Jillian
- 2023 Cabin Girl as Trina
- 2012 The Normals as Gretchen
- 2010 A Woman as Julie
- 2014 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them as Katy Rigby
- 2023 Wayward
- 2013 The Face of Love as Summer
- 2014 Listen Up Philip as Holly
- 2011 The Man Who Never Cried as Ginny
- 2010 Yes as Woman
- 2014 Apartment Troubles as Nicole
- 2014 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her as Katy Rigby
- 2015 Lamb as Linny
- 2010 Audrey the Trainwreck as Tammy
- 2012 County as Erica Kinsey
- 2009 Welcome To Academia as Sophie
- 2016 Money as Sylvia
- 2016 Sister Cities as Austin Baxter
- Soon Tender
- 2018 Entanglement as Hanna
- 2018 Who We Are Now as Gabby
- 2019 Chained for Life as Mabel
- 2011 The Lie as Clover
- 2019 It Chapter Two as Audra Phillips
- 2020 Ava as Judy
- 2019 The Death of Dick Long as Jane Long
- 2020 Fully Realized Humans as Jackie
- 2020 Clock as Woman
- 2005 Little Manhattan as TV Cowgirl
- 2012 Best Man Down as Kristin
- 2026 Let's Love as Jessica
- Soon Claws
- Soon The Upside of Unrequited as Patty
- Soon Hound of Love as Sam
- Soon Father Son Time as Ashley
- 2005 Medium ( 1 episode ) as Mandy Sutton
- 2002 Everwood ( 1 episode ) as Nikki
- 2018 Deception ( 1 episode ) as Joan
- 2009 The Good Wife ( 19 episodes ) as Robyn Burdine
- 2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent ( 1 episode ) as Laura Green
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Carrie Newton
- 2017 The Son ( 10 episodes ) as Sally McCullough
- 2002 Hack ( 1 episode ) as Martha Skulnick
- 2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent ( 1 episode ) as Amy Buckley
- 2024 Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story ( 3 episodes ) as Jill Lansing
