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Jess Weixler

Born 1981-06-08
📍 Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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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Filmography 46

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
as Jill Lansing
2024
Wayward
2023
Cabin Girl
as Trina
2023
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
as Makeup Artist (voice)
2021
Clock
as Woman
2020
Fully Realized Humans
as Jackie
2020
Ava
as Judy
2020
The Death of Dick Long
as Jane Long
2019
Chained for Life
as Mabel
2019
It Chapter Two
as Audra Phillips
2019
Who We Are Now
as Gabby
2018
Deception
as Joan
2018
Entanglement
as Hanna
2018
The Son
as Sally McCullough
2017
Sister Cities
as Austin Baxter
2016
Money
as Sylvia
2016
Lamb
as Linny
2015
Listen Up Philip
as Holly
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
The Face of Love
as Summer
2013
Free Samples
as Jillian
2013
Somebody Up There Likes Me
as Lyla
2013
The Normals
as Gretchen
2012
Best Man Down
as Kristin
2012
The Lie
as Clover
2011
The Man Who Never Cried
as Ginny
2011
A Woman
as Julie
2010
Audrey the Trainwreck
as Tammy
2010
As Good As Dead
as Amy (uncredited)
2010
Yes
as Woman
2010
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
2009
Teeth
as Dawn O'Keefe
2008
The Big Bad Swim
as Jordan Gallagher
2006
Little Manhattan
as TV Cowgirl
2005
Medium
as Mandy Sutton
2005
Hack
as Martha Skulnick
2002
Everwood
as Nikki
2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Laura Green
2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Amy Buckley
2001
Law & Order
as Carrie Newton
1990