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Jessica Hecht most recently appeared in the film Starting Out in the Evening with Frank Langella and Lili Taylor, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Other notable film work includes Sideways directed by Alexander Payne; Stay directed by Marc Forster; The Forgotten directed by Joe Ruben; At Last directed by Tom Anton; Saving Face written and directed by Alice Wu; The Grey Zone directed by Tim Blake Nelson; and Kicking and Screaming written and directed by Noah Baumbach. In New York theater, Hecht appeared most recently opposite Alfred Molina in the American premiere of Howard Katz by Patrick Marber (The Roundabout Theater). Her other recent credits include The House in Town (Lincoln Center Theatre) and Broadway revivals of Arthur Miller's After the Fall and Julius Caesar (opposite Denzel Washington) as well as the Tony Award-winning The Last

Night of Ballyhoo. Her off-Broadway work includes Stop-Kiss, Lobster Alice, Plunge, The Fourth Sister and Flesh and Blood. She just starred in revivals of Blithe Spirit and Lillian Hellman's The Autumn Garden (Williamstown Theatre Festival).

Television audiences know Jessica from her comedy turns on Friends (as Ross' ex-wife's girlfriend), The Single Guy, What About Joan?, Seinfeld and Mad About You and dramatic appearances on the Law & Order franchise, Homicide: Life on the Street, ER and 3 Lbs. She lives in New York with her husband, Adam Bernstein, and two children, Stella and Carlo.