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