Jess Weixler

Jess Weixler Biography

Jessica "Jess" Weixler is an American actress. She is best known as the lead character Dawn O'Keefe 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. Subsequently, Weixler, attended Juilliard. She was a participant during the first year of Bruce Brubaker's InterArts performance project at Juilliard.

In 2007 she was nominated for a Breakthrough Award at the Gotham Awards, and won the Special Jury Prize in Dramatic category For a juicy and jaw-dropping performance at the Sundance Film Festival, 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".

In 2013, she joined the cast of CBS series The Good Wife, playing investigator Robyn Burdine.

Filmography

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013)
The Face of Love (2013)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (2013) .... Lyla
The Good Wife (2013) .... Robyn
Free Samples (2012)
The Lie (2011)
A Woman (2010)
Law & Order (1 episode, "Brilliant Disguise", 2010) .... Carrie Newton
Audrey the Trainwreck (2009) .... Tammy
Periphery (2009) .... Madison
Alexander the Last (2009) .... Alex
Today's Special (2009) .... Carrie
As Good as Dead (2009) .... Amy
Welcome to Academia (2009) .... Sophie
Peter and Vandy (2009) .... Vandy
Goodbye Baby (2007) .... Denise
Teeth (2007) .... Dawn O'Keefe
The Big Bad Swim (2006) .... Jordan Gallagher
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1 episode, "In the Wee Small Hours: Part 2", 2005) .... Amy Buckley
Little Manhattan (2005) .... TV Cowgirl
Law & Order: Criminal Intent " The Video Game (2005) (VG) .... Amy Buckley
Everwood (1 episode, "Do or Die", 2004) .... Nikki
The Guiding Light (unknown episodes, 2003) .... Caroline Boyle
Hack (1 episode, "Blind Faith", 2003) .... Martha Skulnick

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