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