Jess Weixler
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1981-06-08
Place of Birth
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Jess Weixler
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.
Also Known For
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Sep 17, 2021
The Big Bad Swim
Apr 26, 2006
Peter and Vandy
Jan 19, 2009
Alexander the Last
Mar 14, 2009
Teeth
Jan 18, 2008
Today's Special
Oct 14, 2009
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Jan 22, 2013
Free Samples
May 31, 2013
Cabin Girl
Jul 12, 2023
The Normals
Nov 16, 2012
A Woman
Sep 04, 2010
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
May 14, 2014
Wayward
Sep 06, 2023
The Face of Love
Oct 25, 2013
Listen Up Philip
May 07, 2014
The Man Who Never Cried
Feb 09, 2011
Yes
Jan 01, 2010
Apartment Troubles
Jun 15, 2014
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
Oct 10, 2014
Lamb
Oct 20, 2015
Audrey the Trainwreck
Mar 17, 2010
County
Jan 02, 2012
Welcome To Academia
Aug 22, 2009
As Good As Dead
Jan 25, 2010
Money
Apr 06, 2016
Sister Cities
Sep 17, 2016
Tender
Entanglement
Feb 19, 2018
Who We Are Now
May 25, 2018
Chained for Life
Sep 11, 2019
The Lie
Nov 18, 2011
It Chapter Two
Sep 04, 2019
Ava
Jul 02, 2020
The Death of Dick Long
Sep 27, 2019
Fully Realized Humans
Aug 08, 2020
Clock
Oct 07, 2020
Little Manhattan
Sep 26, 2005
Best Man Down
Oct 20, 2012
Let's Love
Medium
Jan 03, 2005
Everwood
Sep 16, 2002
Deception
Mar 11, 2018
The Good Wife
Sep 22, 2009
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Sep 30, 2001
Law & Order
Sep 13, 1990
The Son
Apr 08, 2017
Hack
Sep 27, 2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Sep 30, 2001
