JESS WEIXLER
ACTING
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.
- The Big Bad Swim2006
- Alexander the Last2009
- Teeth2008
- Today's Special2009
- Somebody Up There Likes Me2013
- Free Samples2013
- Listen Up Philip2014
- The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her2014
- The Face of Love2013
- Lamb2015
- Sister Cities2016
- As Good As Dead2010
- Money2016
- The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them2014
- Entanglement2018
- Who We Are Now2018
- Chained for Life2019
- The Lie2011
- It Chapter Two2019
- Ava2020
- The Death of Dick Long2019
- Fully Realized Humans2020
- Little Manhattan2005
- Best Man Down2012
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye2021
- Cabin Girl2023
- Medium2005
- Everwood2002
- The Son2017
- Deception2018
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001
- The Good Wife2009
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001
- Law & Order1990