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Jess Weixler

Jess Weixler

Birthday: 1981-06-08 | Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
Fully Realized Humans

as    Jackie

2020
Ava

as    Judy

2019
The Death of Dick Long

as    Jane Long

2019
Chained for Life

as    Mabel

2018
Who We Are Now

as    Gabby

2018
Entanglement

as    Hanna

2016
Sister Cities

as    Austin Baxter

2016
Lamb

as    Linny

2016
Money

as    Sylvia

2014
Listen Up Philip

as    Holly

2014
2014
2014
Apartment Troubles

as    Nicole

2014
The Face of Love

as    Summer

2013
Free Samples

as    Jillian

2013
2012
Best Man Down

as    Kristin

2011
The Lie

as    Clover

2011
The Man Who Never Cried

as    Ginny

2010
Audrey the Trainwreck

as    Tammy

2009
Today's Special

as    Carrie

2009
Peter and Vandy

as    Vandy

2008
Teeth

as    Dawn O'Keefe