Jess Weixler

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Jun 08, 1981 (43 years old)

Jess Weixler

Known For

Wayward
1h 39m
Movie 2023

Wayward

A gripping coming-of-age thriller. 11-year-old Cleo (Chloe Ghloe Guidry) forms a dangerous bond with a kidnapper (Jessica Sula), blurring the lines between kidnapping and running away.

Cabin Girl
1h 28m
Movie 2023

Cabin Girl

When a van-life influencer moves into an isolated cabin, she discovers the home has a dark history and becomes haunted by a troubled spirit.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2h 6m
Movie 2021

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.

Clock
0h 4m
Movie 2020

Clock

In a mysterious parking garage, a business woman is haunted by the ticking of the biological clock in her head.

Fully Realized Humans
1h 17m
Movie 2020

Fully Realized Humans

Parents-to-be Jackie and Elliott embark on a quest for self-actualization before the imminent birth of their first child in this strikingly honest and hilarious portrait of parents and children.

Ava
1h 36m
Movie 2020

Ava

A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.

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.