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Jessica "Jess" Weixler is an American actress best known as Dawn O'Keefe in the comedy-horror film Teeth and the comedy The Big Bad Swim. In 2007 she was nominated for a Breakthrough Award at the Gotham Awards and won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for Teeth, and in January 2009 New York magazine named her the "New Indie Queen" of the year. In 2013 she joined the cast of The Good Wife as investigator Robyn Burdine, and she co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in Apartment Troubles. This page collects the fashion blog coverage of her style.
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. 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. That same year she appeared in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby as the titular character's sister. The part was written specifically for her. Weixler next turned her hand to writing, penning the script for Apartment Troubles with her friend, and former roommate Jennifer Prediger. The two co-directed and co-starred in the movie. Apartment Troubles premiered at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival. It was picked up by Gravitas Ventures and given theatrical and VOD distribution in March 2015. On June 9, 2015, Variety announced that Jamie Bamber, Kellan Lutz, Jesse Williams, and Jess Weixler had joined the cast of a thriller film titled Money, directed by Martin Rosete and produced by Atit Shah.
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An Indie Queen, by Magazine Proclamation
Jess Weixler's biography is an independent-film career documented with unusual precision. The foundation is Teeth — the comedy-horror film in which she played lead character Dawn O'Keefe — with its twin 2007 honors: a Gotham Awards Breakthrough Award nomination and the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize in the Dramatic category, awarded, in the festival's quoted words, for a juicy and jaw-dropping performance. The Big Bad Swim sits beside it as the second defining credit of that period, followed by an appearance on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Then the biography records a title rather than an award: in January 2009, New York magazine named her the "New Indie Queen" of the year and one of the fourteen "New Yorkers you need to know." Festival prizes and magazine proclamations are the currency of indie careers, and they bring a festival-circuit wardrobe — Sundance and Los Angeles Film Festival appearances rather than blockbuster tours — that the fashion blog posts linked here follow.
The second half of the record shows the career widening. In 2013 she joined The Good Wife as investigator Robyn Burdine and appeared in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby in a part written specifically for her. Then came the move behind the camera: Apartment Troubles, written with her friend and former roommate Jennifer Prediger, co-directed and co-starred by the two of them, premiering at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival and picked up by Gravitas Ventures for theatrical and VOD distribution in March 2015. The biography closes with a casting announcement dated June 9, 2015 — a thriller titled Money, with Jamie Bamber, Kellan Lutz and Jesse Williams — which gives the page a precise snapshot quality: an indie career mid-expansion into television, writing and directing.
Resources on This Page
The resources are the blog search for her name, her Twitter account, and the Wikipedia and IMDb reference links. In the J index she files between Jennifer Westfeldt and Jessica Alba — and the Westfeldt pairing is apt, since both biographies describe actresses who wrote their own independent films into existence, hers with a co-writer roommate and Westfeldt's from an Off-Broadway play. Readers following independent-film style in this guide will find those two pages its J-letter center.
Common Questions
What awards did Jess Weixler win for Teeth?
In 2007 she was nominated for a Breakthrough Award at the Gotham Awards, and won the Special Jury Prize in Dramatic category at the Sundance Film Festival, both for her role as Dawn O'Keefe in Teeth.
What writing and directing has Jess Weixler done?
She turned her hand to writing, penning the script for Apartment Troubles with her friend and former roommate Jennifer Prediger. The two co-directed and co-starred in the movie, which premiered at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival.
What television role did Jess Weixler take in 2013?
In 2013, she joined the cast of CBS series The Good Wife, playing investigator Robyn Burdine. That same year she appeared in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby as the titular character's sister, a part written specifically for her.