Education
Weixler 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 where she was a classmate of Jessica Chastain.
Career
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 was a participant during the first year of Bruce Brubaker"s InterArts performance project at Juilliard. She also appeared in the television 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 Columbia Broadcasting System 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. The two co-directed and co-starred in the movie.
Apartment Troubles premiered at the 2014 Los Angeles Festival.
lieutenant 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.