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Jess Weixler
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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 …
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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.
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Jess Weixler's Filmography
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Let's Love
as Jessica
Wayward
Cabin Girl
as Trina
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
as Makeup Artist (voice)
Clock
as Woman
Fully Realized Humans
as Jackie
Ava
as Judy
The Death of Dick Long
as Jane Long
Chained for Life
as Mabel
It Chapter Two
as Audra Phillips
Who We Are Now
as Gabby
Entanglement
as Hanna
Sister Cities
as Austin Baxter
Money
as Sylvia
Lamb
as Linny
Listen Up Philip
as Holly
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
as Katy Rigby
Apartment Troubles
as Nicole
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
as Katy Rigby
The Face of Love
as Summer
Free Samples
as Jillian
Somebody Up There Likes Me
as Lyla
The Normals
as Gretchen
Best Man Down
as Kristin
No Poster
County
as Erica Kinsey
The Lie
as Clover
The Man Who Never Cried
as Ginny
A Woman
as Julie
Audrey the Trainwreck
as Tammy
Yes
as Woman
Today's Special
as Carrie
Welcome To Academia
as Sophie
Alexander the Last
as Alex
Peter and Vandy
as Vandy
Teeth
as Dawn O'Keefe
The Big Bad Swim
as Jordan Gallagher
Little Manhattan
as TV Cowgirl
No Poster
Claws
Tender
No Poster
Father Son Time
as Ashley
No Poster
The Upside of Unrequited
as Patty
No Poster
Hound of Love
as Sam