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Jennifer Westfeldt is an American actress and screenwriter known for the 2001 hit independent film Kissing Jessica Stein, her 2004 Tony nomination for Wonderful Town, and her 2011 film Friends with Kids. She started her career as a New York-based theater actor, starred in over 25 Off-Broadway and regional productions, and co-wrote and starred in the Off-Broadway play Lipschtick: The Story of Two Women Seeking The Perfect Shade, which was optioned and made into Kissing Jessica Stein. This page collects the fashion blog coverage of her style.
Westfeldt started her career as a New York-based theater actor, and has starred in over 25 Off-Broadway and regional productions. She first came to Hollywood in 1997. That year, she co-wrote and starred in an Off-Broadway play with Heather Juergensen called Lipschtick: The Story of Two Women Seeking The Perfect Shade that caught the attention of Hollywood studios. It was optioned by Radar Pictures and made into Kissing Jessica Stein, in which Westfeldt and Juergensen starred. In 2002, Westfeldt starred as Jessica in Kissing Jessica Stein.
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The Play That Became the Film
Jennifer Westfeldt's biography contains the most complete origin story of any page in the J group, because her best-known work began as something she wrote herself. A New York-based theater actor with over 25 Off-Broadway and regional productions, she came to Hollywood in 1997 — the same year she co-wrote and starred in an Off-Broadway play with Heather Juergensen, Lipschtick: The Story of Two Women Seeking The Perfect Shade. The play caught the attention of Hollywood studios, was optioned by Radar Pictures, and was made into Kissing Jessica Stein, with Westfeldt and Juergensen starring; in 2002 she starred as Jessica in the film, described as the 2001 hit independent film. The biography's other two headline credits bookend that story: a 2004 Tony nomination for Wonderful Town, keeping the theater career in view, and the 2011 film Friends with Kids, a decade after the breakthrough.
Even the play's title earns its place on a fashion site: a story of two women seeking the perfect shade — of lipstick, as the pun in Lipschtick announces — is a beauty-product premise, and a screenwriter-actress's public dressing is read differently from a performer's who only interprets other people's scripts. Independent film also has its own fashion circuit — festivals and small premieres rather than franchise publicity tours — and the blog search on this page gathers the Apparel Search posts about her appearances in that world. As an actress and screenwriter, she is the J group's writer-performer, in a letter that also holds a writer in Jane Fonda's longer occupation list.
Resources on This Page
The resources are the blog search for her name, her own website, and the Wikipedia and IMDb reference links — a compact four-link list with no social accounts. In the J index she files between Jennifer Lopez and Jess Weixler, which places the guide's two Jennifers side by side: one of the most commercially scaled careers in entertainment directly beside an independent-film career built from a self-written play, both filed under the same first name.
Common Questions
What film is Jennifer Westfeldt best known for?
She is known for the 2001 hit independent film Kissing Jessica Stein, her 2004 Tony nomination for Wonderful Town, and her 2011 film Friends with Kids.
How did Kissing Jessica Stein begin?
Westfeldt co-wrote and starred in an Off-Broadway play with Heather Juergensen called Lipschtick: The Story of Two Women Seeking The Perfect Shade. It caught the attention of Hollywood studios, was optioned by Radar Pictures, and was made into Kissing Jessica Stein, in which Westfeldt and Juergensen starred.
What is Jennifer Westfeldt's theater background?
She started her career as a New York-based theater actor, and has starred in over 25 Off-Broadway and regional productions. She first came to Hollywood in 1997.