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Jess Weixler

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jessica "Jess" Weixler 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.


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Born:
Jun 8, 1981 In Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
33
First Appeared:
In the movie Little Manhattan 2005-09-26
Latest Project:
Movie Cabin Girl 2023-07-12
Known For
Filmography
Movie Cabin Girl Trina 2023-07-12
Movie The Eyes of Tammy Faye Makeup Artist (voice) 2021-09-17
Movie Ava Judy 2020-07-02
Movie Fully Realized Humans Jackie 2020-08-08
Movie Chained for Life Mabel 2019-09-11
Movie It Chapter Two Audra Phillips 2019-09-04
Movie The Death of Dick Long Jane Long 2019-09-27
Movie Entanglement Hanna 2018-02-19
Movie Who We Are Now Gabby 2018-05-25
Series The Son Sally McCullough 2017-04-08
Movie Sister Cities Austin Baxter 2016-09-17
Movie Money Sylvia 2016-04-06
Movie Lamb Linny 2015-10-20
Movie The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them Katy Rigby 2014-05-14
Movie Listen Up Philip Holly 2014-05-07
Movie Apartment Troubles Nicole 2014-06-15
Movie The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her Katy Rigby 2014-10-10
Movie Somebody Up There Likes Me Lyla 2013-01-22
Movie Free Samples Jillian 2013-05-31
Movie The Face of Love Summer 2013-10-25
Movie County Erica Kinsey 2012-01-02
Movie Best Man Down Kristin 2012-10-20
Movie The Man Who Never Cried Ginny 2011-02-09
Movie The Lie Clover 2011-11-18
Movie As Good As Dead Amy (uncredited) 2010-01-25
Movie Audrey the Trainwreck Tammy 2010-03-17
Movie A Woman Julie 2010-09-04
Movie Peter and Vandy Vandy 2009-01-19
Movie Today's Special Carrie 2009-10-14
Movie Alexander the Last Alex 2009-03-14
Movie Teeth Dawn O'Keefe 2008-01-18
Movie The Big Bad Swim Jordan Gallagher 2006-04-26
Movie Little Manhattan TV Cowgirl 2005-09-26