Jess Weixler
Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jess Weixler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
TheatersLet's Love
2026 · Movie
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
2024 · Series
Wayward
2023 · Movie
Cabin Girl
2023 · Movie
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021 · Movie
Clock
2020 · Movie
Fully Realized Humans
2020 · Movie
Ava
2020 · Movie
The Death of Dick Long
2019 · Movie
Chained for Life
2019 · Movie
It Chapter Two
2019 · Movie
Who We Are Now
2018 · Movie
Deception
2018 · Series
Entanglement
2018 · Movie
The Son
2017 · Series
Sister Cities
2016 · Movie
Money
2016 · Movie
Lamb
2015 · Movie
Listen Up Philip
2014 · Movie
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014 · Movie
Apartment Troubles
2014 · Movie
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014 · Movie
The Face of Love
2013 · Movie
Free Samples
2013 · Movie
Somebody Up There Likes Me
2013 · Movie
The Normals
2012 · Movie
Best Man Down
2012 · Movie
County
2012 · Movie
The Lie
2011 · Movie
The Man Who Never Cried
2011 · Movie
A Woman
2010 · Movie
Audrey the Trainwreck
2010 · Movie
Yes
2010 · Movie
Today's Special
2009 · Movie
The Good Wife
2009 · Series
Welcome To Academia
2009 · Movie
Alexander the Last
2009 · Movie
Peter and Vandy
2009 · Movie
Teeth
2008 · Movie
The Big Bad Swim
2006 · Movie
Little Manhattan
2005 · Movie
Medium
2005 · Series
Hack
2002 · Series
Everwood
2002 · Series
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Series
Law & Order
1990 · Series
Claws
Movie
Father Son Time
Movie
Hound of Love
Movie
The Upside of Unrequited
Movie
Tender
Movie