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.

Known For

Law & Order

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Good Wife

Everwood

Medium

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

Hack

All Movies (43)

• Let's Love2026 · as Jessica
• Wayward2023
• Cabin Girl2023 · as Trina
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye2021 · as Makeup Artist (voice)
• Clock2020 · as Woman
• Fully Realized Humans2020 · as Jackie
• Ava2020 · as Judy
• The Death of Dick Long2019 · as Jane Long
• Chained for Life2019 · as Mabel
• It Chapter Two2019 · as Audra Phillips
• Who We Are Now2018 · as Gabby
• Entanglement2018 · as Hanna
• Sister Cities2016 · as Austin Baxter
• Money2016 · as Sylvia
• Lamb2015 · as Linny
• Listen Up Philip2014 · as Holly
• The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her2014 · as Katy Rigby
• Apartment Troubles2014 · as Nicole
• The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them2014 · as Katy Rigby
• The Face of Love2013 · as Summer
• Free Samples2013 · as Jillian
• Somebody Up There Likes Me2013 · as Lyla
• The Normals2012 · as Gretchen
• Best Man Down2012 · as Kristin
• County2012 · as Erica Kinsey
• The Lie2011 · as Clover
• The Man Who Never Cried2011 · as Ginny
• A Woman2010 · as Julie
• Audrey the Trainwreck2010 · as Tammy
• As Good As Dead2010 · as Amy (uncredited)
• Yes2010 · as Woman
• Today's Special2009 · as Carrie
• Welcome To Academia2009 · as Sophie
• Alexander the Last2009 · as Alex
• Peter and Vandy2009 · as Vandy
• Teeth2008 · as Dawn O'Keefe
• The Big Bad Swim2006 · as Jordan Gallagher
• Little Manhattan2005 · as TV Cowgirl
• Tender—
• Claws—
• The Upside of Unrequited— · as Patty
• Hound of Love— · as Sam
• Father Son Time— · as Ashley

All TV Shows (10)

• Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story2024 · as Jill Lansing
• Deception2018 · as Joan
• The Son2017 · as Sally McCullough
• The Good Wife2009 · as Robyn Burdine
• Medium2005 · as Mandy Sutton
• Hack2002 · as Martha Skulnick
• Everwood2002 · as Nikki
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Laura Green
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Amy Buckley
• Law & Order1990 · as Carrie Newton